The Westboro Baptist Church has plans to picket the funeral of Steve Jobs. Police in Palo Alto said the protest will be permitted, despite the fact plans for the funeral haven’t even been announced. “THANK GOD! Steve Jobs is dead! Westboro will picket his funeral!” a church blog claims, linked to from the church’s main Web site. […]

A new article on TheGrio by Goldie Taylor talks about the impact that Steve Jobs had on not only her life, but the lives of African Americans as a whole.

TMZ: Steve Jobs — the mega-genius who co-founded Apple Inc. — has died … reps for the company have confirmed. Jobs was 56.