The Fake 'Exclusive' on Steve Jobs' House

Billionaire mansions come and go, but those of America's technology kings have a unique hold on the imagination -- so much so that hungry tech blogs can easily speculate on the real estate follies of the tech gods, regardless of the reality.

Take, for example, Gizmodo's"Exclusive: The Plans for Steve Jobs' New House."

Nearly everyone knows that in August, after almost a decade of delays, the Apple CEO was finally granted a demolition permit to tear down the now-dilapidated 1920s Woodside, Calif. estate of copper magnate Daniel C. Jackling, where he plans to build his own house. On Tuesday, Gizmodo released what it said were exclusive blueprints of the mansion.

There's just one problem: The plans that the site chose to show (see below) were scanned from Woodside's June 2009 Town Council Agenda, and were for the sole use of estimating the environmental costs of various demolition alternatives for the Jackling House.