Ramble on Rose:

Steve Jobs, I have heard your call.

I have made a discovery that is either going to unlock one of the great secrets of the universe, or else it’s really obvious and everyone already knew it except me.

You know the little piece on iPod headphones that you can move up and down? I always thought it was for people who liked to cinch it right under their chin or something, and I could never really figure out why they would do that. But! If you pull the thing all the way up before you toss your iPod somewhere, the cords don’t get tangled!!

I’m quite pleased with myself right now.


The Errant Aesthete:

Radarline’s Fame-O-Meter has the blogosphere all atwitter over Steve Jobs announcement last week on the new cheaper, faster, slightly thinner iPhone. Apparently, Jobs is gaining on the reigning king of the Web 2.0 moguls, Bill Gates, in the online popularity contest with gadget geeks everywhere clicking onto the famed Apple impresario’s name.

The TimesOnline:

For most of us, the flu costs nothing more than the price of a box of Lemsip and a couple of days off work. For Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, the illness has turned out to be a bit more expensive than that.

Like $19 billion more expensive. Which, when you think about it, probably works out at a couple of hundred million dollars per sneeze.

Ben Geek:

So yeah, just like any other computer, it runs, and it crashes, and it computes stuff. But it’s a hunk of aluminium and silicon that can cause rooms full of geeks to cheer, queues around the block, and incredible online fanatacism. That’s what makes it special.

Finally, a good use for Microsoft Office: