Stephen Colbert and the Whale
Stephen Colbert has threatened to become "space's evil tyrant overlord" if NASA refuses to name ISS Node 3 after him.
If you have been following this story you understand why this is not an entirely unreasonable demand.

NASA's mistake was asking the Internets to vote on the name.
Clearly they learned nothing from Mister Splashy Pants.

Or perhaps they did.

In my post on 2009-04-05, "Ghost In The Earth," I suggested that we may have unwittingly created a consciousness with the Internet. costumenut made an insightful and amusing comment suggesting the mentality of the Internet would be the equivalent of a teenage boy.

What I think we're seeing here are the actions of a group of persons who think the same thing.
It makes sense that an accidental consciousness wouldn't escape the attention of a band of rocket scientists.

If NASA was paying attention during Greenpeace's struggle to ditch the name Mister Splashy Pants they would have observed how the Internet likes its silly names (google, twitter, dipity), is a possible fan of Joss Whedon, and doesn't change its mind, it only comes back at full force.

My bet is that NASA will "break down" and name it Colbert.

SUPPLEMENT - http://www.pcworld.com/article/163292/colbert_loses_throne_gains_treadmill.html