Apple makes big land purchase in Cupertino: Good to see that Cupertino is going to be able to manage losing HP. Money quote:

"We now occupy 57 buildings in Cupertino and our campus is bursting at the seams," said Apple's Steve Dowling. "These offices will give us more space for our employees as we continue to grow."

The Safety Question: TPM, on the safety of the full-body scanners:

The FDA response to the UCSF letter basically says, "the machines are below the threshold of an arbitrary dose limit we developed with the help of the manufacturers of these machines."

Sounds fishy to me. (via Daring Fireball).

Apple-NeXT Merger Birthday!: While I knew that Doom was written on NeXTSTEP, John Romero gives some nice anecodtes as to NeXTSTEP, and how id Software used it back in the early 90's.

If the iPad 2nd-gen gets a Retina display, what will the resolution be?: Ryan Block misses the mark here, but the comments are intelligent and set him straight. In short, as I have said in the past, the eventual Retina Display iPad will surely be 2048 x 1536 resolution, but it's pretty unlikely that this happens in 2011.

Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures arms HTC with big patent trove: Translation: "bring it on, Apple".