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According to our Silicon Valley Gossip Monger pal, TechCrunch auteur Michael Arrington is taking his feud with Palm, Leo Laporte, and “everyone else who’ll actually look at the guy,” to the next level: Arrington is out to get Keyboard Cat.

We’ll spare you the longform of this story and suffice it to say that Arrington - who’s CrunchGear gadget blog apparently was not given an early review loaner of Palm’s new Pre smartphone - accused Laporte of being bought off by tech companies with gifts of gadgets.  Laporte took execption and called Arrington a troll, amongst other things.  Blah, blah, blah, my CPU is bigger than yours, you get the idea.  TechCrunch/CrunchGear writers have since been accused of anti-Palm bias in their coverage of the Pre by commenters with weird names seemingly taken from Aaron Sorkin screenplays.

We don’t know how any tech reviewers could ever be considered Not Biased, but that’s another story for another day.  Here’s the fun stuff:

“Mikey was basically over the whole fiasco, having made nice-nice with Leo via a post/comment exchange and such,” our source tells us.  “And then the Keyboard Cat video showed up on Attack of the Show.  Mike flipped out, and now he wants to take the cat out.  I hear he’s offering a totally brand new CrunchPad to whoever commits the deed.  That’s worth like $200 - $400, depending on who you ask.  I mean, if it ever comes out.”

Take the cat out?  Wow.  Before we could get clarification on what that might mean, our source had to go.  “Oh no,” s/he said via cell phone.  “Phil Schiller just walked into the bar I’m at.  I can’t be seen by him, at least not until July 16th.”  Huh.

At any rate, here’s the Keyboard Cat video - a spoof of the Arrington/Laporte exchange in which the infamous ivory-tickling feline tries to soothe everyone’s nerves.

Bloggers

A brand new but already highly trusted source just DM’d us on twitter to say: “This blogger just learned to right.”

Then they DM’d us again to say: “and word get out & da blogger king took  blog away.  LOL”

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Mossberg vs Pogue

Take this one with a big can of Kosher Salt, but a semi-trusted source just hit us up on AIM to say that, “two of White Nerdy America’s most beloved men are gonna fight!”  Rumor has it that Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal and David Pogue of the New York Times are in negotiations to stage a pay per view fight with the winner to be named, “Nerdiest Rich White Guy Who’s Slightly Behind the Curve”

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Now that their much-publicized race to rack up one million followers on the social messaging service Twitter has come and gone, Larry King and Ashton Kutcher may be teaming up to start a website of their own.  A guy claiming to know Bruce Willis has informed us that the CNN talk show host and that guy from That 70s Show are in secret talks surrounding “a new form of really, really quick dirty talk over the Internet.”

Details remain scarce, but our Man on the Scene tells us that the new service would allow users to send pornographic messages of 140 characters or less.  “You know, like limericks about that dude from Nantucket,” said our source.

We can’t confirm this, but we’ve also been told that the new service will be called, “Twitter, but with an ‘a’ instead of an ‘i’ … If you know what I mean.”

Startup electric car maker Tesla made a splash with their fast, flashy electric sports car, the “Roadster.”  The $100,000 plus car does 0-60 in less than four seconds and runs entirely on electricity, with a range of 244 miles on a single charge.

The California-based automaker followed up on the Roadster by announcing the Model S, a $50,000 four-door sedan slated to be available in late 2011.  Tesla claims the Model S will get from zero to sixty in 5.6 seconds while seating up to seven people.

But there’s more.  A tipster going by the handle, “BenFranklin2k9Wassup” just sent some juicy intel regarding Tesla’s third model, the Taser.

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