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Sometimes it can feel like the future of 2010 is already too ridiculous to bear. Like if you had asked me a week ago if the biggest story in major newspapers would be Apple's Tablet, I might have said "yes." If you had asked me if our nation would care so deeply about a gay British blog announcing its Man of The Decade poll, I probably would have gone "What now?" And if you had told me that 2009's biggest comeback star, Neil Patrick Harris (sorry Mickey Rourke!), would actually be engaging in some fierce online competition with the guy who plays Captain Jack Harkness in 'Doctor Who' and 'Torchwood' I may have actively slapped you on the face for making me reference 'Dr. Who' twice in two days now. But we've apparently gone through the wormhole and come out the other side, because the future of the internet is all about the gay/sci-fi crossover.

By now, two days after polling has officially closed, you've probably heard something about the cramazing Twitter fight between Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) and John Barrowman (@Team_BarrowMan) both of whom enlisted all their celebrity friends to retweet their plea to get their numbers up. NPH obviously attracted a huge American following, Barrowman, a British one (though the actor is Scottish, close enough?). Kevin Smith remains firmly on the U.K. side out of spite because Harris once called Jason Mewes "a druggy mess." If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's a good refresher course on what you've been missing while you've been too busy "having a life" or whatever.

What's amazing about "The Big Gay Battle" (copyright: Neil Gaiman's Twitter) isn't that the press is picking up this story, because whatever Neil Patrick Harris does is immediately front-page material these days (at least to us!). Rather, it's that a million people from what was once considered two very separate, niche communities that aren't very high on the traditionally "cool" barometer, gays and geeks, have banded together to take over the internet and make Twitter their own personal call-out thread. No matter who wins this battle (as of the time of writing, the votes are still being tallied), one thing is certain: gay sci-fi nerds are the real winners of 2010s first week.

UPDATE: Neil Patrick Harris has won the poll by 61 percent! Go team USA!