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CUPERTINO, CA—Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Computers and the only American in the country who had any clue what the f*** he was doing, died Wednesday at the age of 56. "We haven't just lost a great innovator, leader, and businessman, we've literally lost the only person in this country who actually had his s*** together and knew what the hell was going on," a statement from President Barack Obama read in part, adding that Jobs will be remembered both for the life-changing products he created and for the fact that he was able to sit down, think clearly, and execute his ideas—attributes he shared with no other U.S. citizen. "This is a dark time for our country, because the reality is none of the 300 million or so Americans who remain can actually get anything done or make things happen. Those days are over." Obama added that if anyone could fill the void left by Jobs it would probably be himself, but said that at this point he honestly doesn’t have the slightest notion what he’s doing anymore.

A Mac is like a cat, after all: it can generally clean itself up without assistance, it thinks it's better than you, and people who own a lot of them tend to be weird.

Apparently, Westboro Baptist Church (the "God hates Fags" people) already tweeted that they were, essentially, happy that Steve Jobs had died. They tweeted this message from an iPhone.

I wish I was kidding.

I mean, you go to Michigan, ask someone where they're from, they'll hold up a hand and point on the palm to their approximate location. Geeze.

If your first thought when seeing this is that the program is Orson Scott Cardesque, you aren’t alone. The idea of children developing the next great drone is something out of science fiction nightmare, though one of the directors of the program, Dale Dougherty, was quick to point out that the students will not be building weapons for the military. That point seems a bit shaky when coupled with him saying “It’s naive to think the world of tech is not engaged with the military on every level and vice versa.”

getting kids involved with science, engineering, and other high technology pursuits has to be considered a good thing, though it’s hard to see this particular application as less than insidious.