One of the top sites returned by leading search engines for the phrase "Quotidian Hell". Your host resides in Australia which may help explain some of the jokes.
Great God! This is an awful list. (Here if you don't want the fancy voting panel which disappears once you've voted.) I mean, seriously - Thomas Friedman? Pope Benedict XVI? Larry Fucking Summers?
Alright, if you must know - I voted for Chompers, Lawrence Lessig, Jared Diamond, Umberto Eco, and Tony Judt (because if Richard Dawkins gets any more publicity his head will explode). Then I wrote in Thomas Frank just to be irritating.
I was told by one of the officials that wearing a t-shirt with Arabic script in an airport now is like going to a bank with a t-shirt that reads, “I am a robber.”