Newton’s Lore

If you’ve got the sewing skills (or you know someone who does), you could try making this very cool Etch-a-sketch themed laptop cozy.

via Redbraids.

Some great folklore about Steve Jobs (and people telling him Apple’s doomed) and Adam Osborne over at folklore.org.

Check out katidev for some good Mac development posts, and a link to the YouTube video of NSView country and western love song from WWDC.

A recent article on Slashdot about using FireWire’s direct memory access (DMA) capabilities to rewrite memory on a Windows box reminded me a lot of the 1st place winning 2002 MacHack hack “FireStarter” perpetrated by Quinn, which wrote a QuickTime movie of burning flames on the screen of any Mac you plug in via FireWire. As mentioned on TidBITS at the time.

Some of Quinn’s hacks are here.

TidBITs announced that there will be no more Crazy Apple Rumors. A site that will be sorely missed by the insane Apple fan demographic I’m sure

This very amusing video from MadTV is doing the rounds at the moment, probably because it’s so true!

I recently read an article which included a link to the Wikipedia entry about Apple’s 1984 Superbowl ad. I’m going to have to go and re-watch some Futurama and Fight Club now

In part 3 of xkcd’s current story about a female uberhacker, Elaine visits Steve Jobs. You can start from part 1 here if you prefer.

Now available is a 3D Beers of the World Screensaver.Somewhere I must dig out those photos from WWDC in 2000(?) of a G4 Guinness beer tap with the Hypercard stack that allowed you to opt for a fast or a slow pour.

The Joy Of Tech is celebrating its 1000th comic on Monday (US time, so you’ll just have to wait if you’re in Oz There is going to be a giveaway apparently.