An incredibly bleak look at how our junk gets made. The social costs of tech gadgets are immense.

Sad and ironic. #China #Apple MT @MomoAdalois Woman Who Assembles iPads Shown #iPad for First Time in Her Life

Gets rid of those extra files that lay around when you erase a program. (Preferences, etc.)

Strange back and forth between Gawker blogger and Jobs; they both sound like dicks.

An Apple II twitter client / terminal.

Daring Fireball on Apple cleaning up the AppStore

This is hilarious.

Snow Leopard ignores application creator codes. (It looks to rely on file name extensions to figure out what opens what.)

Seems like a good laptop purchase, though 15" isn't particularly portable.

And this is why Apple will continue to kick Microsofts ass in usability: "However, in contrast to Microsoft—which offers a confusing array of full and upgrade versions of Windows, all of them requiring that users enter a unique serial number in order to prove they’re not pirates—Apple continues to rely on the honor system for Mac OS X. Not only does Snow Leopard not require the entry of any serial numbers, but the standard version of Snow Leopard is a bootable “full install” disc that doesn’t actually check for the presence of Leopard in order to install. This also means that if, at a later time, you want to wipe your hard drive and reinstall Snow Leopard, you won’t have to first install Leopard and then run a separate Snow Leopard upgrade on top of it. (That sound you hear is a thousand IT managers sighing with relief.)"

Instapaper's Marco tears up Jason Calacanis' recent article about Apple.

"Apple requires you to be 17 years or older to purchase a censored dictionary that omits half the words Steve Jobs uses every day."

A weblog about minimalist Mac setups. There is lots of good advice here in general for tricking out your Mac.

Fake Steve Jobs on the death at Foxconn, and how Americans get to live their American dream.

An academic paper about the Indie Mac developer community.

I\'ve always wanted to learn AppleScript. It seems too damn useful.

Apple FTW!

I laughed when my coworker sent me this photo.

Whatever you opinions on Google Docs, you need to watch the linked video. Seriously.

I\'m reading through it now. It\'s pretty technical.

All about the rumors around Apple\'s plan for its Mach kernel.

You can download Apple\'s Widget Creation tool which shipped with some MacBook Pros (by accident it seems).

Video of a little bug walking inside a Apple Cinema display. I think that would drive me nuts.

Apple is posting time-lapse video of the first 24 hours of the Fifth Avenue store online. At 5:00AM some dude proposes to his girlfriend.

Apple has started a new ad campaign.

There are lots of theories on Slashdot as to why. PortalPlayer make the chips that power Apple\'s iPods.

Apple will recycle your old computer safely. They won\'t ship crap to third world countries. Good job Apple.

Gruber\'s posts mocking people covering Apple are always entertaining.

I vaguely remember seeing this video long ago. I liked his poem.

The reviews at Ars Technica are always excellent, this review is no exception.

The Times is a big fan of the new Apple laptops.

If you have an opinion i\'d love to hear it.

This is where the magic happens. I am dying to know what the new Apple products are going to be.

Dvorak could write about his shopping list and it would get posted on Slashdot. Also, he\'s a dumb-ass.

Some photos from a recent patent application.

The new MacBook Pros aren\'t all they are cracked up to be. So <a href=\"http://www.kottke.org/06/01/letter-to-apple-support\">don\'t cry if you have an old Powerbook</a> just yet.

One of the guys who writes peppers for Mint broke the story.

Another tool to un-uglify Mail.app.

My friend <a href=\"http://herbsofwar.com/morosecode\">Dave</a> will be glad to know his iPod is one with a 24% failure rate (77 out of 321 units failed).

Actually, you can get your Mac to do just about anything with this trick.

I almost never use spotlight. The cmd-space short-cut on my computer opens <a href=\"http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/\">Quicksilver</a>.

A positive review of what I would consider to be a very expensive service.