The Loop reports:

The white iPhone 4 has been promised by Apple for almost a year — today it officially arrived.

It’s like the iPhone 4, but in white! And it’s, apparently, “beautiful”!

The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it’s beautiful. We appreciate everyone who has waited patiently while we’ve worked to get every detail right

said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, neglecting to mention why the hell a colour variation has taken almost a year to get to market.

And, man, with the iPhone 5 not showing up and being delayed until September or later, we needed something to distract everyone in the meantime. MWAHAHAHAHA

he didn’t go on to say, under his breath, while he thought no-one was listening.

Curious Rat posts in response to Don Reisinger, who argues that with Jobs on medical leave, the iPhone could hurt Apple because “there’s no telling what might come out” of future development and no way of knowing how appealing those devices might be. Obviously, now Jobs isn’t at Apple day-to-day, Apple’s going to turn the iPhone into the iRetro and make it look more like the device Dom Joly used to use in Trigger-Happy TV.

But wait! Curious Rat throws a logic-shaped spanner into the bizarre-o-works:

Steve Jobs does not sit in a laboratory all day building things out of aluminum and glass.

But the tech press told us he was responsible for everything Apple has done since he become iCEO. HOW COULD THEY BE WRONG?

He does not cut metal, he is not Dr. Frankenstein and he certainly is not the only person at Apple creating beautiful things.

But that means Jony Ive isn’t just for show, to woo the ladies with his British accent and shaved head. THIS IS MAKING MY BRAIN HURT.

Steve Jobs probably has final say on what gets shipped, but he has a team of brilliant engineers and designers who have perfected their crafts over many years.

But that would mean Apple will be fine if Jobs steps down permanently, not least because Apple has effectively become Steve Jobs in company-sized form. STOP IT NOW, YOU’RE MAKING THE TECH PUNDITS CRY.

If you’re feeling down in the dumps, for whatever reason, there’s a very good chance you merely need to watch Cookie the Penguin being tickled:

(Original link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wTWWjYTe1I.)

Nice quote from James Cameron on TMZ, referring to us managing to escape destruction by Skynet and machines then taking over:

With everybody going through their lives bent over their Blackberries all day long, you could even argue the machines have already won.

A Sun apology from 2005:

Julian’s mother did not say, during or after the inquest, her son often got on all fours creeping around their house pretending to be Gollum.

There’s a level of oddness in there that is almost beyond belief—and parody.