Hulleye Comes By!

Alternet has a writeup on the thirteen most scariest people in the United States. It’s a very interesting read. Before you click, let me give you a preview on some of the nominees.

Scariest Billionaire, Scariest Academic,  Scariest Drug Dealer, Scariest polluter,  Scariest Presidential Candidate.

Go through it. It’s fun to know what our future may hold.

Meet Peter. Peter is a 79-year-old English retiree. Back in WW II he served as a radar technician. He is now an international star.One year ago, this would not have been possible, but the world has changed. In the past 12 months, thousands of ordinary people have become famous. Famous people have been embarrassed. Huge sums of money have changed hands. Lots and lots of Mentos have been dropped into Diet Coke. The rules are different now, and one website changed them: YouTube.

It’s been an interesting year in technology. Nintendo invented a video game you control with a magic wand. A new kind of car traveled 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas. A robot learned to ride a bike. Somebody came up with a nanofabric umbrella that doesn’t stay wet. But only YouTube created a new way for millions of people to entertain, educate, shock, rock and grok one another on a scale we’ve never seen before. That’s why it’s Time’s Invention of the Year for 2006.

But if YouTube is the Invention of the Year, who exactly invented it?