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Apple’s new headquarters will be across Interstate 280 from Apple’s current campus at One Infinite Loop. The building and underground parking will reportedly use only 20 percent of the site, and the rest will consist of apricot orchards and park-like landscaping.

Jobs told the Cupertino City Council the new campus would double the number of trees on the site from their present 3,700. Many of the trees will be apricot trees.

“Cupertino was known for its orchards — plums, prunes and apricots,” Kitson said. “We have some of the richest soil on the planet.”

And getting richer by the day.

Apple’s Next HQ: From Infinite Loop to Millennium Falcon (MacNews World)

Joy Of Tech

On the occasion of Johnny Depp’s 48th birthday (which was yesterday), Ranker compiled an illustrated list of the seven greatest (true) Johnny Depp stories ever told. Perhaps you never knew that he:

Financed Hunter S. Thompson’s funeral, entirely.

Once stopped a mugging with a single look.

Adopted the one-eyed horse used in Sleepy Hollow, thereby saving it from the glue factory.

And, FTW:

Wrecked a New York hotel room in 1994. Blamed it on an armadillo.

The 7 Greatest (True) Johnny Depp Stories Ever Told (Ranker)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFyv6t3OS3c

Waterphones – invented and patented by Richard A. Waters (what are the chances?) are more than mere musical instruments. They’re:

‘…stainless steel and bronze monolithic, one-of-a-kind, acoustic, tonal-friction instruments that utilize water in the interior of their resonators to bend tones and create water echos. In the world family of musical instruments, the Waterphone is between a Tibetian Water Drum, an African Kalimba (thumb piano) and a 16th century Peg or Nail Violin.’

Made-to-order originals cost between $1000 and $2100.

Ownership does not guarantee a career in horror movie SFX and/or popularity at hipster gatherings.

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