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Woz-Tastic? Well, No–But Steve Lives to Dance Another Day!

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Doing the quickstep and wearing taped nerd glasses to the tune of Buddy Holly’s “Oh, Boy!,” Steve Wozniak’s dance stylings on “Dancing With the Stars” this week was more like “Oh, Brother!”

Nonetheless, support of geeks world-wide and an infectious spirit kept the Apple (AAPL) co-founder in the running on the ABC television competition by besting former Go-Go’s singer Belinda Carlisle in dance-off elimination.

With his very patient partner, Karina Smirnoff, and with an injured foot, Woz keep up the pace and did his Monday night dance over on Tuesday, as one of the two lowest-scoring couples.

And while the judges dissed his skills again, even though they did compliment Woz’s enthusiasm, the viewer votes sent him over the top–proof that it is marketing and not product quality that can sometimes win the day.

Woz is dancing as badly as he can with a pink boa, Silicon Valley, so get out there and make your 13 votes each count!

In any case, here’s his latest outing:


comments so far. Add yours.

  • http://allthingsd.com/ Eric Welch

    No mention here of Woz’s predictions he would not be eliminated because the results were fixed by the producers?

    Well, that source WAS the New York Daily News. The CNBC of dead tree journalism.

  • http://blog.macb.net Mac Beach

    “proof that it is marketing and not product quality that can sometimes win the day.”

    We needed proof? Most people reading this are probably running Windows. Few of them ever owned a Beta max tape player.

    I’m of the opinion that quality winning out is the exception rather than the rule.

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