Sometimes even his Steveness is guilty of having too
much time on his hands. Apparently, Mr. Jobs won an abandoned mineral mine in Australia in a game of poker (or so the digg post says). So what does Steve do with the land?
Why, construct the world's largest homage to the iPod, of course! The site can be seen from space (Google Maps link) and still looks to be a work in progress - but wow. I wonder if this is Apple's attempt at putting little white music players in the hands of little green men.
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3-26-2006 @ 3:23PM
Derek said...
Then they must be making an iPod video version with the side wheel on screen. Seriously, this is just 2 80 acre plots that they dig side by side for whatever reason. This satellite photo is just a few miles away. Probably the same company with some sort of digging method.
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-30.593223,121.578741&spn=0.039749,0.080509
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3-26-2006 @ 3:48PM
JK said...
Shouldn't this have been posted on April 1? Or even better, "I'm REALLY gullible day"
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3-26-2006 @ 5:16PM
Ahmed Hassan said...
Wow, Steve's really put iPod on the map!
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3-26-2006 @ 8:21PM
djphatjive said...
Man some people don't look around. Right next to that "ipod" are buildings that look similar to it. Its not anyone making an ipop its just coincidence. Look around the spot on google maps. Geeezzzzzz
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3-26-2006 @ 8:22PM
Craig said...
Isn't this post about 5 days too early?
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3-26-2006 @ 9:46PM
Michael Moncur said...
In case someone believes the obvious joke here, here are a couple of nearby locations to look at:
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-30.394792,121.078262&spn=0.047234,0.070896
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-30.799728,121.56518&spn=0.047037,0.070896
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-30.593519,121.572561&spn=0.047137,0.070896
Either Apple's planning more advertisements than you thought, or it's just a style of farming (?) that produces shapes like that.
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3-26-2006 @ 10:11PM
umijin said...
Yeah, I call bull***t too.
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3-26-2006 @ 10:55PM
Adam said...
Um....I'm pretty sure that this was meant as a joke. I think some of you are taking it a little too seriously.
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3-27-2006 @ 3:09AM
John said...
The digg post was better worded
"The ad, which depicts Apple’s flagship iPod product has been constructed on the site of an abandoned mineral mine in remote western Australia. It has been in development for almost two years since Apple’s founder Steve Jobs aquired the location during a game of poker with (the late) Australian publishing and gaming tycoon Kerry Packer.""
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3-27-2006 @ 6:22AM
Skorp said...
Steve plays poker? OMG! OMG!!!
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3-27-2006 @ 6:23AM
Arthur said...
Seriously folks, as this is a mineral mine we're talking about, it seems to be two evaporation basins side by side. Presumably, the minerals (think salt or simlar) are underground, dissolved in water to be pumped up, after which the water is evaporated or drained off in these structures. This accounts for the click wheel shape: around the edges the water already has evaporated, in the middle there's still some present.
But kudos to whoever first spotted this!
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