Mattel asked their fans what Barbie’s 125th career should be.  The public voted, and the results are more than a little suspect.  Barbie has become a Computer Engineer. Woot!

Ummm… cool, in a way, but surprising in a nation whose students are shunning high tech careers and whose populace prefer their scientists as action heroes. (I’m looking at  you Indiana Jones.)  It does seem though that nerds are somewhat responsible. Reddit (a programming playground) ran a Vote for Barbie campaign. So Mattel may have been pwned a bit here. If true, it would be more than a little satisfying that Barbie, the prototypical stacked blonde that most geeks couldn’t attain in their wildest virtual world fantasies, was duped unwittingly into the Land of the Nerds by nerds doing what nerds do best.

Trust me, Barbie has no idea what she’s in for.  But at least she’s going in armed with a pink laptop.