Apple has a tech note about which Macs will work with 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows Vista under Boot camp. Hint, you have to have a 2008 or later Pro model.
If you want to do iPhone application development using the open source toolchain you should probably check out the second edition of iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Applications Using the Open Source Tool Chain
from O’Reilly. Assuming you don’t want to use XCode and have a jailbroken iPhone of course 
ChannelNews are reporting that an Apple Warranty scam by an Australian reseller group is under investigation.
The reseller group apparently charged customers for parts on out-of-warranty devices and also claimed them under warranty from Apple using other serial numbers from the resellers database.
iphone v stone
With thanks to David for this one:
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Apple’s Top Stories page includes this one:
October 24, 2008
No on Prop 8
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8.
Anyone happened to bump into Woz this week?
If you need to connect to an airport wireless network from the commandline you could check out the little known airport command line utility.
It’s hidden at
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport
You can use –help for help and -I for signal strength and ID info
Apple have handily posted a table with details about activating iPhone 3G connections in various countries.
From which we can glean that if you’ve got a friend coming from the Czech Republic, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Luxembourg, Macau, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey (with TurkCell), then you can get them to buy you an iPhone that’s not locked to a carrier.
Apple’s share price took a 3% dive today after someone posted a bogus report of Steve Jobs suffering a “major heart attack” on the CNN ‘citizen journalist’ iReport site. (”Unedited. Unfiltered”, Untrue!) Anyone else notice similarities between Steve’s purported ECG and the Apple stock price?
Just in case you need to check, you can always check isstevejobsdeadyet.com
