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“I cannot show that off yet. You’re not even supposed to know about that….Nobody knows about that.”

– Digg founder Kevin Rose gets caught messing around with an unannounced Digg iPhone app.

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“1984 LaserJet Classic
Price: $3,495
Weight: 70 lbs.
Maximum resolution: 300 dots per inch
Speed: 8 pages per minute

2009 LaserJet P1006
Price: $99
Weight: 10 lbs.
Maximum resolution: 1,200 dots per inch
Speed: 17 pages per minute”

– Evolving specs for Hewlett-Packard’s LaserJet desktop printer, which turned 25 this week.

Posted at 6:41 AM PT

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QOTD DD Shorty

“What hath God twat?”

– Stephen Colbert speculates on the text of the very first Tweet.

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Monday, June 25, 2007

... For the past four weeks, I’ve heard nothing but iPhone talk from David, his friends, my brother and, basically, any male between the ages of 13 and 40 within earshot. It’s insane. I’d pay 500 bucks and sleep outside in line to just shut these guys up.”

— Tien Tang of San Francisco describes iPhone fatigue.

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Friday, June 22, 2007

... What about ALL CAPS? People tell me to stop doing that, but I talk in ALL CAPS. Why wouldn’t I type in ALL CAPS, because it looks more like it’s chiseled in stone that way?”

— Stephen Colbert chats about email etiquette with author Will Schwalbe.

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

... ‘Folksonomy’ is a word to make you howl in the night.”

— Bob Young, CEO of Lulu.com, explains why “folksonomy” won this year’s Blooker Prize for the word most likely to make Web users “wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard.”

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... No drop of milk oozes from the Apple teat without a crowd of journalists gathering to swallow it up.”

— Slate’s Jack Shafer deftly slags the media’s current iPhone mania.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

... If Darth Vader had an intergalactic yacht, this is what it would look like.”

— Newsweek’s David Kaplan on Kleiner Perkins Founder Tom Perkins’s high-tech sailboat, the Maltese Falcon.

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... Terry Semel at least can go back to Hollywood. I loved him in all those Christopher Guest movies.”

— Fake Steve Jobs weighs in on Yahoo CEO Terry Semel’s resignation.

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... He said it as if I should have known, and it’s something he had done before. He had never, never done it. But he had that authoritative voice as some geeks get, where you want to believe.”

— Blogger Scott Moschella explains why he followed his friend’s computer-keyboard-in-the-dishwasher advice.

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Monday, June 18, 2007

... Our Internet content strategy continues to flourish with hits such as ‘National Lampoon’s 72 Virgins,’ ‘Star Wars, X-Wing Pilots – the Deleted Scene’ and our newest property, ‘Fat Guy Nation.’ I am also excited to welcome the traffic from our newest acquisition, DrunkUniversity.com.”

— National Lampoon CEO Daniel Laikin talks up the company’s online strategy in a just-the-facts financial results announcement.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

... I’m not at all berating Sun. What I’m trying to do here is wake people up who seem to be living in some dream world where Sun wants to help people.”

— Linux creator Linus Torvalds attempts to castigate Sun without berating it.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

... All I do is hit the space bar, and boom, there it is, and I am now looking through my PDF. Without launching a viewer app or anything else. Boom, boom, boom. Keynote presentation? Boom, there it is. I can just click through the slides, make sure this is what I want. Boom, there it goes.”

— Apple CEO Steve Jobs hits a 13 on “Steve Jobs Boom Index” during Monday’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

... We want them to watch on Wednesday at 8 o’clock.”

— Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment, says “Jericho” fans who regularly viewed the show on DVR or the Web must start watching it live if they don’t want to see it canceled a second time.

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Monday, June 11, 2007

... It is a legitimate concern. However, given the number of satellites that can read your license plate from the sky, I think at this point that’s not necessarily where a terrorist would go.”

— New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggests that those calling on Google Earth to blur views of potential terrorist targets do a search for “U.S. Geological Survey.”

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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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