Three Cringesters voted for and now chief security technology officer of BT. is one of those guys who's got so much brainpower that when he enters the room all the fluorescent lights explode. Doesn't that mean he's too smart to take the job?

Cringefan D. H. nominated Mark Cuban for his keen business sense in dumping Broadcast.com on Yahoo during the height of dot-com hysteria, though not so much for his success with sports franchises. He's also , I might add.

D. B. offered up the yin-and-yang, you-say-proprietary-I-say-open-and-free combination of Bill Gates and Richard Stallman. Gates already has a partner, but apparently Seinfeld wanted another US$10 million just to consider it.

Carly (don't call me "gnarly") Fiorina got the thumbs-up from a couple of readers as a bipartisan nod to , if only she knew how to kill and clean her own food. Because who knows better how to steer a sinking ship than the former captain of the Titanic?

A few misguided souls even nominated me for the job. It appears sniffing glue has not yet gone out of style.