Editor's Note:  We are publishing this post in recognition of two events.  First, January 29th marked the one-year anniversary of the 1000Nerds blog - what better way to celebrate our Nerddom?  Second, we are once again in the midst of the U.S. Presidential primaries - plenty of fodder for reflection.

Nerds of the World, Unite!

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable sites, that among these are Second Life, MIT and the pursuit of Technology.

Wait a minute...Why should nerds unite?  What force drives this alliance?

The fact is that nerds are already united in their love of technology.  They all try to understand how things work.  They are able to make complex systems function.  They lack redeeming social graces.
 
But nerds are not just faceless clones.  They have Nationality.  They have culture, and not just in Petri dishes.  They have a sense of identity.  As my Puertoreque-nerd friend, Rafael clearly states:

"The beauty of a nerd is that he/she does not focus on looks or background, but rather on what they bring to the table.  Nerds cannot be like a "melting pot."  They have to be like a beef stew.  They all bring their own differences, but focus on their similarities.  You see, if we had a nerd world, there would be no wars and no bigotry.  Maybe the nerd world is a better world to live in because we are not really looking at others as different, but rather as the same.  Nerds accept that differences exist and they are OK.  It is the similarities that nerds exploit... we are all together, but we are different... the difference is that the focus is on the similarities..."

Imagine a nerd as President!  Rather than marching us off to war, there'd be a brainstorming session on how to re-engineer the trouble spots, with invitations that included Nerdly Leaders from that part of the world who would create specifications for resolution, complete with flowcharts.  Or a thinking war rather than a physical war.  Maybe a game of Halo would resolve the problem!"

Just think of it...a Nerdish President!  What's that you say?  No foreign policy experience?  Balderdash!  We pour through machine translations of technical manuals every day.  We actually talk to technical support in Bangladesh.  We eat tons of French Fries.

No political expertise?  You've got to be kidding?  What Senator ever moderated an ISO standards meeting where several factions want to dictate the new order in their favor.

No economic sense?  Save it for someone gullible.  Nerds never waste a dime on anything unnecessary like haircuts or soap.  Nerds direct all their resources to important necessary items like more RAM and faster processors.

And just think of the possibilities for the Cabinet:

Commerce - Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder

Defense - Jason Jones, Halo Project Lead

Health and Human Services - Bill Gates, Microsoft Czar & head of the Gates charitable foundation

Interior - Barry Glick, Mapquest founder (he knows where all of the states are located!)

The possibilities are endless.  Care to take a stab at a few other positions?
State
Treasury
Justice
Agriculture
Labor
Housing & Urban Development
Transportation
Energy
Education
Homeland Security
Veteran Affairs

The attorneys have been running the country long enough.  The nerds can't do much worse.  Vote for someone who understands complexity.  Vote for someone who never allowed the VCR to blink "12:00" and has a wireless network (802.11n!) that isn't named "Linksys."  Vote for someone who has what it takes to debug the system!!! 

VOTE NERD!!!