Article: Shout it from the roof; In case you missed it.(Viewpoint)(Apple Computer Australia Proprietary Ltd.)(Brief article)

According to reports published on Boakes.org, Apple is up to something big in western Australia: an iPod that ain't so mini.

In celebration of its upcoming anniversary, the company is building an iPod replica the size of eight soccer fields to advertise its most popular product in satellite mapping software, such as Google Earth.

According to the same report, Apple is building the gigantic replica over an abandoned mineral mine, which Apple CEO Steve Jobs is said to have won from Australian tycoon Kerry Packer in a hotly contested poker hand.

Apple refused to comment.

But blogger Rich Boakes of Boakes.org went ahead and copped to his ...

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