Recently, an old picture of Steve Jobs has surfaced of him standing in front of an IBM building in NY, flipping them off. The picture was probably taken sometime in the mid 80’s.

Where is the black turtleneck? I guess this is Jobs’ way of simply saying, "I’m a mac."

For all you crazy Apple fanatics, prepare to start foaming at the mouth for the opportunity to purchase Apple’s first trade show sign as well as Steve Wozniak’s toolbox.

The Apple trade show sign was the first sign used in 1976 during promotions at trade shows. it measures 100" x 22.5" x 1.5" and will run you upwards of $15k.

The second item, Woz’s toolbox, was the toolbox used by "the Woz" during the creation and inception of the Apple I and Apple II computers. It comes with a yellow Dymo label that says "STEVE WOZNIAK." The toolbox will run you between $3k and $5k.

The auction is this Thursday and Friday in Stamford, CT.

Psystar announced today that they are ready to ship a Mac clone with built-in Blu-ray and NVIDIA 9800GT graphics cards. This comes as a surprise given that the company is currently in closed-door talks with Apple to negotiate an end to their cloning ways.

Steve Jobs has thus far resisted inclusion of Blu-ray technology into Macs because of steep licensing costs, a problem Psystar apparantly had little issue with. No pricing model has been announced yet but expect them to be fairly inexpensive. Psystar announced today that they are ready to ship an Mac clone with built-in Blu-ray and NVIDIA 9800GT graphics card.

In San francisco today Steve Jobs said the new MacBook will go on sale tomorrow. The laptop unibody enclosure is made from aluminum and carved by real lasers. Okay, so when will Macs be able to use Windows installation files to install and run Windows programs?

A CNN iReport poster reported this morning that Steve Jobs had been rushed to the ER after a severe heart attack. Fortunately, it appears the story was false. Immediately after reading the iReport story, Katie Cotton, Vice President of Worldwide Communications for apple, replied quickly, saying "It is not true." The iReport poster wrote:

Steve Jobs was rushed to the ER just a few hours ago after suffering a major heart attack. I have an insider who tells me that paramedics were called after Steve claimed to be suffering from severe chest pains and shortness of breath. My source has opted to remain anonymous, but he is quite reliable. I haven’t seen anything about this anywhere else yet, and as of right now, I have no further information, so I thought this would be a good place to start. If anyone else has more information, please share it.

CNN’s iReport kept the report up until at least 10:15 AM, about 20 minutes after Apple’s denial was published. The story has since been removed.

CNN says it removed the story because the "community" brought the story to its attention. Importantly, CNN also refers to the content as "fraudulent," which is much stronger than "inaccurate." "Fraudulent" implies an intent to deceive.

Apple’s stock also took a major hit today before bouncing back.

The SEC will no doubt investigate, and prosecute, the person who posted this false report, which was an obvious attempt to manipulate Apple’s stock price.

Who would actually trade stocks based on an iReport story anyway?