3 – Doctorow, this one was close, but being a scientist does not make one a geek, though Hawkings’ appearing in the simpsons and being a total freaking genious/ half robot gave him a bunch of points. Doctorow’s fiction is just over the top geekiness for me, from a story about MMO labor unions to one named “when Sysadmins Ruled the World”.

4 – Frontalot

5 – Glass, though this is pretty much because im a TAL fanboy and not based on any particular geek cred

6 – Sagan, no contest, nobody has done bore to bring geekery to the masses.

7 – Mythbusters, science + explosions + swords + brining it to the masses = geek++

8 – Wasn’t too enthusiastic about this pair, but went with Belmont by a quarter length.

Why didn’t I say all that earlier? I might have won him some more votes. Oh well, it looks like he’s winning comfortably anyway.

2. Never heard of Dilton, so gave Wesley the nod.

3. Went with the other Star Trek alumnus (“Wrong again, Einstein!”). Don’t know anything about Doctorow, only heard his name mentioned on xkcd.

4. Never heard of either. Mann sounds slightly cooler, so went there.

5. It’s the Woz! ’nuff said.

6. Never read (or heard or watched or otherwise experienced) Harry Potter. And Sagan made us look up.

7. This one was the hardest. I really really like P&T, but I really really really like Mythbusters, so gave the edge there.

8. And finally, the lady who both told me to vote, and yet kept me from voting yesterday. She’s real, and definitely cuter than Frink (sorry Veronica for the faint praise).

And yes, Paul, I too (dating myself) remember WCDDD. But things have definitely changed since first season ST-TNG when he kept being annoying saving everyone’s butt.

Ok, I may have just dated myself…

Other choices were similarly hard.

2. Had to go with my fandom here. Not a fan of Archie comics.

3, 4, 5. While Cory Doctorow has possibly one of the coolest, geeky names ever, he strikes me as more of a hipster. As do Merlin Mann and Ira Glass.

6. Hermione Granger is awesome, and a wonderful role model for geeky girls, but DUDE. Carl Sagan.

7. I’m loyal to Penn & Teller. Love them and their irreverently skeptical ways.

8. Professor Fink is kind of a screw-up. Has to be Belmont. And she saved Leo Laporte’s butt playing “Still Alive” in Rock Band at the San Francisco show!

2. And now here’s Wil’s flipside. Wesley, on the whole, IS geekish enough for this, but in all honesty, I’d have an easier time voting for him if not for the fact that the writing behind the character was, well, weak. But, luckily for him, he’s matched with someone I’ve never heard of, so I can brush that off and vote Wes.

3. BoingBoing almost DEFINES the concept of “just another blog” to me. As in, the textbook case of what some mass media zombie would point to as an example when spewing the word “blog” over and over again as if it were cool. Now, that’s not Cory’s fault, nor is it really BoingBoing’s fault, but it still DOES leave a distinct taste of “generic” in my mouth. But Hawking? The man is pure brain, and pure win. He’s got sheer intelligence and theoretical design on his side, and he was cool enough to do an interview in which he actually said that the Large Hadron Collider “will not tear apart the time-space continuum”. How many internationally-renowned physicists can you say THAT about?

4. If you were looking in on Frontalot’s accomplishments at a first glance, you might make the mistake (and be subsequently forgiven for making the mistake) of assuming him to be some degree of nerd poser. I mean, that much fame and that much attention for someone who can do hip hop about nerdy topics, and mostly the popular ones at that? But actually paying attention to him reveals a few curious facts: He’s got the knowledge to back his rhymes, he doesn’t just latch on to whatever’s popular (sure, PAX congoers know he’s down with Penny Arcade, but an Adventurer is he, performing in a tiny club in Phoenix for The Kingdom of Loathing AND knowing the game enough to fit it into his act), and, let’s face it, heavily lyric-based hip-hop like what he does, focusing more on clever wordplay and complex sentence structure than what one of Front’s contemporaries, MC Lars, terms “Crunk Rap”, is insanely geeky. Front FTW. Aaaand it’s kind of a shame I’ve not heard of Merlin Mann. Now I feel bad.

5. This was a hard one. The Woz is definitely the geek of the Jobs/Woz duo, and, while still eccentric, he’s the GOOD kind of eccentric. But listening to one episode of This American Life quickly reveals why Ira Glass is on this list. It’s probably my rampant NPR fanboyism, but I’d much rather have Ira’s calm, even temper representing geeks before the POTUS.

6. I’ll admit to not having read the Harry Potter series. But with that out in the open, I have an incredibly hard time picturing Hermione topping Sagan in this matter. And fictional characters need a pretty healthy advantage over real people in my book to take my vote anyway (watch carefully as somebody goes back through the history to note my votes for Gadget the mouse and the cast of Revenge of the Nerds, but I had good reason! Really!).

7. Penn & Teller’s stage act seems, at first, to just be a stand-up act that happens to include magic tricks and lots of yelling. But, oddly, they’re well-matched with the Mythbusters, as a quick peek under their stand-up veneer reveals that what they do for a living is reveal the tricks behind their (and others’) acts and dispel misinformation and such. Adam and Jamie, though, do it with a far geekier sort of quality. I mean, with them, you get to see how they screw things up from time to time as they work towards an answer, and that just makes things more “real” to me. Who are the Mythbusters? They’re the ones who just got my vote.

8. Shame I have to end this week’s voting on a weak note, but I don’t have the slightest clue who Veronica is, not even second- or third-hand, and Frink is really a shallow caricature of the nutty professor archetype. But, since I know his character better and don’t have anything specifically against him, he gets the vote.

1) I can’t really vote here. I won’t vote for Wil Wheaton for the same reason I didn’t vcte for Kevin Smith… too many people with the same or similar names in the same or similar careers. I get him confused with Joss Whedon and Will Wright, so I’m never quite sure who did what. And why would I vote for Bruce Campbell? He’s just an actor.

2) I don’t know either character, so again, no vote.

3) Doing science-fact is better than writing science-fiction. Stephen Hawking wins.

4) MC Frontalot, because although I think Merlin Mann has a cool name and ought to be an 80s rock star, I’m not familiar with his work. Oh wait… Merlin Mann worked for Omni Group? Damn… I am kind of glad I already voted, because armed with this new knowledge, that would have been a tough decision.

5) Easily Woz. He’s just such an awesome person. Besides that, I don’t know who Ira Glass is. I know we’re electing US secretary of geek affairs here, but if you want foreigners to vote then you should pick international celebrities.

6) Can’t vote here either. I don’t know enough about Hermione, and I won’t vote for Butt Hole Astronomer.

7) Penn & Teller, because I’ve never watched Mythbusters, but I like what I’ve seen of Penn & Teller

Frink, because I don’t know much about the other one.

2) Wesley Crusher. This is where I ran into an interesting situation in the brackets as I originally printed them. See, Crusher and Weaton are the same person. This would mean if they both won the opponent in theory would get a bye.

3) Hawking, ftw. Not the first time I’ve said that. I’ve definitely quoted him several times over the past year.

4) Mann. I’m not to familiar with either, so I asked my friend who has. Asking about MC Frontalot I got a “meh”. That settled it.

5) Ira. Though Woz isn’t as bad a Jobs, the fact that he for some reason likes Jobs baffles me to no end. He was more of the techie guy, and never really the business savy type. If he were running Apple maybe I’d have voted differently, but alas. Sorry Woz. Also he dated Kathy Griffin. Kathy Griffin?! Really Woz? Fail.

6) Sagan. I mean just read his description – that guy is such a 1337 haxxor.

7) Mythbusters. They make things go susplode. Also I don’t really like Penn and Teller. On the other hand, I learned about the Mythbusters show in a high school physics type of class. It’s science. It’s math. It’s AWESOME.

<– Yay, emoticon in sunglasses. This was a hard one, especially given the fact that I had Fink originally winning his round in my original. I have since flip flopped, when I found out Fink was NOT a member of tribe and also would not be someone I would trust near… well any kind of button that does… anything.