The next time you go home to visit your family and get picked on for wasting all of your free time typing nonsense into a weblog (particularly a Seattle-related one), spending hours documenting your cat’s favorite tricks on youtube, obsessively editing wikipedia, tagging the hell out of your flickr photostream, or meticulously tricking out your myspace, just tell your nagging mother that hey, you’re TIME’s goddamn person of the year. Yes, that’s right. We’re all winners this year as the magazine decided that finding one actual person who made the biggest contribution to 2006 was just way too much work.

Way to go Internet! No, even if (like us) you weren’t mentioned in the article, let’s all count this win as a little Chrismukkah Solstice miracle! The mainstream media like us, they really like us!