Blag-o-matic

A nine page thread on if 0.999… = 1 or not.  I love the Internets.

A Fox affiliate discovers 420chan in an investigation into the hacker group “Anonymous”.(via wired)

Charles Arthur of The Guardian makes the same point I did. Even if iSuppli got all of the component prices correct, it doesn’t mean that’s what it actually cost to make an iPhone. R&D isn’t free, neither is the talent that created the iPhone.(via daringfireball)

A brief history of Apple(via tuaw)

John Gruber has a piece on the figures iSuppli provides for the cost of the iPhone.  The one item that I think misses is the R&D for the iPhone itself.  I strongly doubt that the model everyone has right now is the first revision.  Apple needs to pay for all of those designs that didn’t work too.

(via Joystiq)

Creepy Pac-Man skeleton will give you nightmares - JoystiqHere’s something from my old Google Reader Shared Feed.

My hope is for this blog to be a collection of random things I find to be interesting. We’ll see how that goes.