Slow year?

i hate that fucking guy.

brutal. so weak.

You were named TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” on Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet sites such as YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. You were chosen over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea’s Kim Jong Il and Donald Rumsfeld. Congratulations.

Wait a second, I was chosen because I spent so much wasted time looking at videos on the internet? Would it not have been me if I wasted that time watching videos on television instead?

fire the editor

Donald Rumsfeld is in your extended network.

we all know the real person of the year is the lizard kinG!!1

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Yay us! Is there a cash prize?

Dubya uses the Google

It’s a series of tubes!

Bobby Bowden blames Ebay for Son’s Departure

Haha, when I visited that link I got a car ad that said “you might not be the person of the year but...” etc. Bad year to pick that slogan!

I think their reluctance to piss off subscribers by naming scary evil people pretty much dooms them to making these cutesy-ass choices until the end of time.

How fucking lame.

And they didn’t give me the front cover! Lily Allen fucking better say something about that.

They should’ve just give it to “I’m the Pope” guy.

I saw some thing on CNN ysterday aft discusing all the nominees and most were negative: Rumsfeld, president of Iran etc. When “youtube” got mentioned as a long shot I turned to my wife and said “bingo!”

oh man I should’ve placed a bet or something! gots my finger on the zeitgiest, dudes!

You like me! You really, really like me!

the person of the year is clearly the guy that invented the sausage pancakes on a stick

I think the “You” they’re talking about is the one guy who still subscribes to Time Magazine.

i read time at work occasionally. it is filled with factaloids. or mcfactanuggets. or tidfactbits.

factrinos

Is a factaloid a fact combined with an Altoid (curiosly strong!) to make it easier to stomach?

the one guy who still subscribes to Time Magazine.

Then it’s me! Oh joy!

Is it still the Information Age? How retro!

You were chosen over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea’s Kim Jong Il and Donald Rumsfeld.

You were chosen because you were completely bland, inoffensive and uncontroversial.

Oh god, that flash slideshow is like a bad Zune ad.

I the actual Person of the Year was the first one who bought it or looked at the cover. It was for HIM/HER. And now we’re all just cheap fake imitation posers.

WTF

hmm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Year

Since 1927, every serving President of the United States has been a Person of the Year at least once with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford.

1950: The American Fighting-Man (first abstract chosen)

1960: U.S. scientists (represented by Linus Pauling, Isidor Rabi, Edward Teller, Adam Fisher, Donald A. Glaser, Willard Libby, Robert Woodward, Charles Draper, William Shockley, Emilio Segre, John Enders, Charles Townes, George Beadle, James Van Allen and Edward Purcell)

1966: The Generation Twenty-Five and Under

1968: Apollo 8 Astronauts Frank Borman (b. 1928), Jim Lovell (b. 1928), William Anders (b. 1933)

1969: The Middle Americans

1975: American Women (represented by Betty Ford, Carla Hills, Ella Grasso, Barbara Jordan, Susie Sharp, Jill Conway, Billy Jean King, Susan Brownmiller, Addie Wyatt, Kathleen Byerly, Carol Sutton and Alison Cheek)

1982: The Computer (first non-human abstract chosen)

1988: Endangered Earth (Planet of the Year)

1993: The Peacemakers: Nelson Mandela (b. 1918), F.W. de Klerk (b. 1936), Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), and Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995)

1998: Bill Clinton (b. 1946) (2nd time) and Kenneth Starr (b. 1946)

2002: The Whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom (b. 1963), Sherron Watkins of Enron (b. 1959), and Coleen Rowley of the FBI (b. 1954)

2003: The American Soldier (2nd time)

2005: The Good Samaritans: Bono (b. 1960), Bill Gates (b. 1955), and Melinda Gates (b. 1964)

2006: You—Referencing contributors to user created content “for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME’s Person of the Year for 2006 is you.” [2]

it could be worse!

hahah otm

the ‘person of the year’, just like last year and the year before that and the year before that and maybe the year before that, is obviously Bush. Time just doesn’t want to be accused of ‘hating America’.

Dear Bono,

Why does God exist?

I love you,

kv_nol

this year’s runner-up = Putin?

“...I was screwed over! Fuck you, Bush!”

I had that MAD issue. And might still do.

“the google” video is the funniest thing I have seen in weeks. Thank you, so much, for that link.

(Planet of the Year)

What the fuck.

Someone photoshop this guy onto the cover:

Because that’s basically what the flimsy premise of the article amounts to.

Can’t we vote to change it to the ‘O RLY’ owl?

My first thought was Chavez. But oh well, me, that’s cool too.

it’s like you think people can;t come up with any new ways of being an asshole and then time names you person of there year and yr all i will not stop fighting until i am people sexiest man alive.

Can’t we vote to change it to the ‘O RLY’ owl?

This makes more sense.

THE PERSON-SIZED HOLE IN TIME’S PSYCHE SHALL BE FILLED BY AVIANS

does anyone truly buy into the “democratized internet utopia” thing?

Let’s have a vote!

does anyone truly buy into the “democratized internet utopia” thing?

I don’t.