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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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• The Financial Crisis, as Explained to My Fourteen-Year-Old Sister

  You’re fourteen and have no source of income. What would convince me to lend you money if I’m not sure you can pay it back?

• Sad Guys on Trading Floors

  Could loltraders be next?

• The Dark Knight Trailer Recut …

  … with Toy Story 2

• VP Debate in Song and Dance

  Biden and Palin square off in melody

• William Faulkner Reviews Season One of Gossip Girl

  And this remembered: the Upper East Side, with its stone townhouses and husk dwellings, matched to the apotheosis: Gossip Girl as voice alone now to the Houses of Talk and passing periods as the Internet announces that it is now about to be the great catting time of the day and the wonted welcome will not be expected or exaggerated or even given to Serena …

• Search Engine Rap Battle

  The only Hotmail you got is when Ballmer gets sweaty …

• Planned Sequels to “Bangkok Dangerous”

  “London Expensive,” “Los Angeles Nice to Visit but You Wouldn’t Really Want to Live There”

• The Largest Known Prime Number

  13 million digits in a 16.73 megabyte file

• Atari Modern Classics

  A vintage look at new games

• Hello, I’m From Two Months in the Future

  On 10/22 at approx 2:34 a.m. CET, a tachyon field failure in the main resonating ring of the LHC causes a “temporal blowback.” Shortly thereafter, the resulting destruction of the strong nuclear force causes the world to vaporize in seconds …

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