
Jason Perlow, Senior Technical Editor of Windows CE Power and Contributing Editor for PalmPower (and a fellow DVD fanatic) clocks in with his "best of" nominations:<UL><LI>Most important technology... Espresso Machine (the entire computer industry runs on it)<LI>Most interesting product... ReplayTV<LI>Best movie ever... 2001: A Space Odyssey / Blade Runner (tie)<LI>Most interesting use of a new material... Velcro Sneakers<LI>Most influential figure... Alan Turing, father of Computer Science<LI>Best bad-guy... Darth Vader<LI>Nastiest leader... Adolf Hitler/Joseph Stalin (tie)<LI>Person of the Century / of the Millennium... J. Presper Eckert, John W. Mauchly and John Vincent Atanasoff (three-way tie), inventors of the world's first digital computer<LI>Most eagerly awaited event... Unveiling of the Color Palm Device<LI>Most interesting new edible substance... Pop Rox<LI>Most exciting event... Woodstock '68<LI>Biggest news/most newsworthy... Bombing of Pearl Harbor<LI>Cheesiest concept... Microwave Pizza<LI>Silliest technology... Microsoft Bob [our second nomination]<LI>Best accomplishment of humanity... The Internet<LI>Worst accomplishment of humanity... Fossil Fuels</UL>