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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    Hello, my name is T Cook, CEO of Apple Corp. I beseech your assistance in helping transfer $100 billion in cash left by the late Steve Jobs.

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      Ed Bott @edbott

    What font is that being used for the Olympics? It looks like someone tried to clone Comic Sans with duct tape.

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    Word of the day: ohnosecond - noun, the minuscule amount of time between when you click the Tweet button and you see the typo in your tweet.

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    This is how a parody account is supposed to work: @apstylebook and @fakeapstylebook feud publicly: http://t.co/ZJd6zfMw via @rosa

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    GoDaddy has always been troublesome. Here's a jaw-dropping story from 2009, being told for the first time: http://t.co/hjtzQuxx

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    WTF, Arizona? Seriously, WTF? AZ legislature passes bill allowing any employer to fire employees who use birth control. http://t.co/ZVG4C9Dd

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    Android dev is "enough to make a grown man cry, and then stab himself in the eyeballs, and then cry some more" http://t.co/A0dai6SE

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    I am not making this up: The background music as we await the HP earnings call is an instrumental version of "Free Falling"

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    Bill Gates on Steve Jobs: "For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor." http://t.co/3z7pcQea

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    Hilarious. New @androidagram account consists exclusively of RTs of iPhone owners whining about how Android users are spoiling everything

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    The Groupon IPO is priced at $20. But if you sign up for the exclusive Groupon, you can get first day shares at 50% off!

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    I agree with every angry, foul-mouthed word here: Your Guide to the Idiotic Racist Backlash Against Trayvon Martin http://t.co/Hu39S2h8

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    I love when Apple fans point to iPhone sales numbers as evidence of its superiority. Which of course means Windows is the greatest OS ever.

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    Occasionally I am asked why people write malware. Here are 14.8 million reasons in one frozen bank account: http://bit.ly/lAS21S

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    Gingerbread is the new XP.

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    So, 700 bankers were arrested yesterday for destroying the economy. About time! Oh, wait... #OccupyWallStreet

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    Microsoft's radical new business plan is hidden in plain sight http://t.co/mO8bNjVn

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    Bye Dropbox RT @ath BitTorrent just made a Dropbox competitor. No size limits. Share anything. http://t.co/ECWCOqUC

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." http://buswk.co/hI990t

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  • edbott
      Ed Bott @edbott

    Congrats, Apple, for passing Microsoft's 1999 record as largest public company ever by market cap. Might want to note what happened next.

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Award-winning author, tech journalist, Windows expert, online comic. Bearded, sometimes. Proud member of the 99%. RTs = nodding, pointing, and/or laughing.