Here’s Jim Henley’s nomination for “thing of the decade”:

As Hardison said, “Age of the geek, baby!” As defeatist (and boring) as that last post sounded, the great consolation of the Oy’s, for me and people like me, was — and I mean this in a healthful, life-affirming way — our ruthless and total conquest of the culture.

Even areas that were once considered almost off limits to geeks, like sports fandom, have been occupied by geek legions. Geeks have not only changed the way sports is covered, but even the way professional sports teams are run. Geeks have finally witnessed the ascendancy of the medium in which they are the most comfortable (the Internet) and the form of analysis they most prefer (quantitative). Don’t think of it as a coincidence that CBO scores of legislation have become so important. If you don’t make an effort to crunch the numbers, nobody takes you seriously any more.

We’re living in the golden age for geeks.

From the comments on Wired News’ Hans Reiser article today:

but in all seriousness, the reason so many of us are motivated about this trial is because we can project ourselves into the defense seat. watching as 12 hopelessly irrational commoners convict us super-brights on nothing but a pool of circumstantial evidence. its a scary thought.

Working in the world of software development you see this kind of arrogance frequently.