FHM Magazine is running a poll for the Sexiest 100 Woman of 2002. A link was posted on Fark, and of course, everyone there started voting for Wil Wheaton (who played Wesley Crusher in Star Trek TNG, and also won "Blogger of the Year" in the 2002 Bloggies, mostly because he's the closest thing blogging has to a celebrity (which says a lot about blogging, and awards)).

This is, of course, nothing new. I remember (I think it was 1995) the first time Time Magazine opened up a "Man of the Year" poll on the net, and it was hijacked by the kibologists. And then, of course, there was the Java vs .NET poll that suddenly reversed direction one day after a lot of hits from Microsoft's domain.

Most sites generally pretend this sort of thing doesn't happen, and quietly deletes the votes. But kudos to whoever's running the FHM site for acknowledging the joke. (Update: They've changed it back now, but at the time I posted, they'd added Wil's head to the end of the banner at the top of the page)