Former Apple Lawyer’s Latest Options: Severely Limited
The wheels of justice grinding away at Apple’s option-backdating scandal for the past few years have worn another career down to gritty dust. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday settled the last civil case against a former Apple executive accused of stock-option fraud.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
We Used an AirPort Extreme to Extend Steve’s “Reality Distortion Field” to DOJ Headquarters
Looks like Steve Jobs’s notorious “Reality Distortion Field” also doubles as a Federation Starfleet-style force field in a pinch. The U.S. Justice Department has ended its investigation into backdated options at Apple and chosen not to bring criminal charges against the company.
Is That a Nancy Heinen Windsock Twisting Over Apple HQ?
The Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed Apple CEO Steve Jobs in connection with a backdating lawsuit against former Apple General Counsel Nancy Heinen. Seems the SEC wants Jobs to testify against Heinen, whom it sued in late April for allegedly backdating stock-option grants to Jobs and other Apple execs.
And that puts Jobs in an [...]
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
I Know It Was You, Fredo. You Broke My Heart. You Broke My Heart!
Apparently Fred Andersen is the “Fredo” of the Apple options backdating family …
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
