(Courtesy of Paint.It.Black’s Flickr site.)

I’ve written a couple of times how in Japan seeing a wayward iPhone is rarer than it normally is elsewhere. That’s because hack-and-kracks don’t work there (their system has different requirements that the iPhone hardware does not have yet). So seeing one in Apple-crazy Japan is not too common, and the craving seems to have given rise to odd things - like this Sony Ericsson slider that someone there modified to look like an iPhone:

Gizmodo calls it the “saddest iPhone” they’ve ever seen. I agree.

Only 20GB?

From Flickrer Max Aretz’s photostream.

A portrait of Steve Jobs at home during leaner, meaner days 25 years ago. During this time in his life the Apple ][ was king, and he would appear for the first of his (so far) six appearances on the cover of Time Magazine.

Of this portrait, Steve said

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.”

(via The Digital Journalist; photo by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Diana Walker from her book The Bigger Picture: 30 Years of Portraits)

Charlie Sheen and Jenny McCarthy in last week’s episode of Two & A Half Men.