cheap ipad stylus

I've got a few genuine economics blog posts ready to go, i just need to finish editing them, but in the meanwhile, I made this really cheap, kind of ugly, quite useful stylus in about 5 minutes.  I saw this page, used foil and a slightly better pen that I stole from my lovely wife (sorry), and got this:

Good for my iPhone, but it'd be even better on an iPad where you have more room to scrawl, for instance in a program like GoodReader ($5, and it makes my now my preferred place to read notes.  It's awesome).