An Invitation: Go Forth and Geek up Time’s ‘Most Influential People of 2010’ Poll

When someone puts a general poll on the internet, we get Lara Croft Way and Computer Engineer Barbie; in other words, wonderful things happen.

In this spirit, we’d like to give you some links to the more than 2 dozen geeky and geek beloved people on this year’s list of 200 vying for a spot in an issue of Time through open internet poll. If it’s going to be mostly unscientific anyway, let’s tilt it in our favor!

• Jeff Bridges – Actor, Iron Man, The Big Lebowski
• James Cameron – Director, Aliens, Terminator, Avatar
• Conan O’Brien – Former Late Night Host, Unemployed Twitter Trendsetter
• Neil Patrick Harris – Actor, Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, Riddler look-alike
• The Penny Arcade Guys – Wecomics creators, gamers extraordinaire
• Jon Stewart – Fake News Anchor
• The ‘Lost’ Creators – Television producers
• Stephen Colbert – Fake Right Wing Pundit
• Dennis Crowley – Co-founder of Foursquare
• Peter Molyneux – Game designer and big ideas guy
• Neil Gaiman – Writer, American Gods, Sandman, Coraline
• Banksy – Guerrilla street artist
• Marissa Mayer – Google vice president of search products and user experience
• Pete Cashmore – Founder of Mashable.com
• Emma Watson – Actress, The Harry Potter movies
• Tim White – He’s a paleontologist!
• Tim Westergren – Founder, Music Genome Project, Pandora
• Rachel Maddow – Real News Anchor, This Week in Geek
• Ricky Gervais – Comedian, Actor, Original Steve Carell
• Bill and Melinda Gates – Philanthropists
• Steve Jobs – CEO of Apple
• Andy Samberg – Comedian, viral video aficionado
• Ben Stiller – Actor, Zoolander, Mystery Men, James Cameron Fan
• J. J. Abrams – Director, Lost, Star Trek
• Neill Blomkamp – Director, District 9
• Diane Nelson – President of DC Entertainment
• Zoe Saldana – Actress, Avatar, Pirates of the Carribbean, Star Trek
• Quentin Tarantino – Director, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill
• Elon Musk – Founder of PayPal

Rankings are determined not just by the person’s average score, but also by the number of people who voted for them.  I trust in your power, The Internet.  Let everyone know that the geek shall inherit the earth!