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Clearly these execs haven’t spent enough time on college campuses over the last seven years. The day that students stop illegally downloading will be the day that frats stop having keggers. This is what happens when you fuel insomniac students with loads of bandwidth. Campuses were “shrinking the [available] bandwidth on the network to discourage” illegal downloading, says John Mullen, vice president of Dell’s higher education business. He says schools want a way to minimize the impact of music downloads…

I always wonder what it must be like to be worth $21 billion. I wonder what Paul Allen’s agenda must be like: 8 am: Wake up. Dive into Duck Tales-style pool of coins for refreshing swim. 9 am: Take a refreshing shower, dry off with towel sewn from $100 bills. 10 am: Check email. 10:30 am: Bathroom break, use toilet paper made from $50 bills. 11:00 am: Ponder what museum should start next. 12:00 pm: Lunch, followed by an ice…

Just on the heels of their deal with IBM (Oh hello, $850 mil settlement!), that giant sucking sound that BillG hears is his army of lawyers descending on San Francisco. I wonder if MSFT’s legal team has a permanent office down in these parts? Kaplan, 53, who was an early pioneer in software retailing and online auctions as well as pen computing, claims Microsoft misappropriated Go’s technology and operated a secret “kill Go” campaign starting in the late 1980s. Microsoft,…

Greenlighter.org RIP July 2, 2005 – July 6, 2005 Fellas, it’s been fun. Really.

This is from one “Ding Chavez” (oh come now, Internet pseudonyms are so 1996). With all due respect, you seem like the kind of person that would go to a child’s birthday party uninvited, and then proceed to explain loudly how the magician does all his tricks. Don’t you have anything better to write about? Like that whole political corruption and war thing going on, that’s a popular one. Please get a sense of humor and then optionally go report…

[images redacted] So apparently I scared the living daylights out of WookieFetish.com, so much so that they deleted all of their posts talking about their hoaxing operation and replaced them with dumb and obviously made up posts about wookies and what not. Where their new online hideout is, I do not know. Oh, and fellas, here’s a tip. If I wanted to start an Internet hoax from one forum and then migrate it to another — I wouldn’t use the…

Shhh! Don’t tell John Markoff or John Battelle (Aww, shit.). Oh, those wacky folks over in Building 43. Space Travel, Internet 3, Richard Branson, and Orbital Mind Control? Hot. Thanks to the good folks over at Good Morning, Silicon Valley, and of course, everyone’s favorite VC, Steve Jurvetson. OFF TOPIC THE REAL MASTER PLAN

Steve Ballmer, better known as Big Baller Ballmer, is now recruiting for basketball players. What’s with these Microsoft guys and their random obsessions? Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold is into cooking, Paul Allen is into his museums. So that leaves one question: what is BillG’s bailiwick? BASKETBALL WITH BALLMER

When I try to login to WookieFetish, I get the following: You have been banned from this forum. Please contact the webmaster or board administrator for more information. Wow, that took two hours. Pretty good, fellas. If anyone else wants to infiltrate their board, please email me. Thanks!

Woz and Gina Smith are working on Woz’ autobiography together, to be out by Christmas 2006. Except I’m not so sure about Gina’s fact-checking/spelling skillz: Tonight had a great meeting with my new editor at Norton — this for I ,Woz. That’s the new autobiography on Steve Wozniak I’m co-writing with him. Was Steve there? Noooo. He was in Singapore playing games with journalist Dan Gilmoor in a cocktail lounge in Narita. Check this out. Come home, Steve. We’ve got…