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Filed Monday, February 20 2006.

Entries keep rolling in for Cyan's First Annual Oscar Pool. From them, I've deduced three main points:

  1. I have no idea who you people are. Seriously, I recognize the names on, at most, 10% of the entries. Percentage-wise, that's about the same as the ratio between the number of visitors to this site, and the total number of people I've ever met in my life who I could plausibly imagine coming here. Who the hell are you other 90%, and what the hell are you doing reading my drivel?

  2. James Surowiecki was right - there's a definite wisdom that emerges from a crowd. Though some categories are closer than others, in nearly every one, a clear Oscar favorite has shaken out. The day before the awards, I'll be closing the Cyan polls and posting the collective results; should be interesting to see how closely we mirror the Academy itself.

  3. That wisdom only appears, however, when people use some basis for their decisions other than the age-old 'rectal generation method.' Which is to say, given the utterly random scattershot of answers for the three best short categories, it's clear you people are pulling guesses for those out of your collective ass.