The monologue runs nearly two hours without an intermission. Though there’s minimal staging (a light board, table and chair), and Daisey remains seated throughout, the performance comes off as a physical feat. The material is a high-wire balancing act best left to one who understands comedic timing, audience tol­er­ance and energy allotment — such as its author.

The one downside is that it’s missing the firm hand of an editor who isn’t too close to the source.
There’s no doubt that a slightly tighter script would seal the seams on a nearly flawless show.
Understandably, Jobs’ sudden passing just over a week before opening night meant that the play’s ending was abruptly tweaked — and doubled in weight sheerly by the burden of context — but the dramatic judgment passed in the last minutes could benefit from a delivery as curt as it is acrid and astute.   

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The day was designated to honor Apple’s co-founder, approximately two weeks before his Oct. 5 death.

Friday Oct. 14 will offer Apple fans one more opportunity to say goodbye to their hero.

Biz Journal reports that the day was set up by a group of workers at the Atlanta digital advertising studio Studiocom Inc. The initial intention is was so that people could thank Jobs for everything he’s accomplished.  After his passing, the day turned into a day of honor.

The organizers of Steve Jobs Day are encouraging people to dress like Steve Jobs will talking about him with friends, and on Facebook and Twitter. Topics of discussion will include favorite Apple products and why you love Jobs’ work.

When tweeting about everyone’s favorite tech guru and all the cool gadgets he created, make sure to use the tag #stevejobsday.

Did Jobs’ career touch your life so much you want to talk about it? Were his inspirational quotes life-changing for you? Well, you’re in luck as there will be in-person meet ups throughout the world.

In New York, Apple enthusiasts will gather at Central Park, Sheep Meadow at 5 p.m. In Philly, the Art Museum Stairs at the Philadelphia Museum will be overtaken at 1 p.m.

Click here to see a list of all the gatherings. At each meet up, you will also be able to donate money for cancer research.

Do you think this is a little too much? Well, think again as the Steve Jobs Facebook page has more than 2,600 followers so far.

So let’s pay tribute to the man who changed the way we listen to music, use a computer and communicate one last time.

Speaking of tribute, check out this cool street art via the folks at Gothamist.

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According to Deadline, Sony Pictures made a $1 million against $3 million to make ‘Steve Jobs.’

The movie will be based on Jobs’ biography written by former CNN chairman and Time Magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson.

Jobs died less than a week ago after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Isaacson’s book was supposed to be released on November 21, but due to Jobs’ death the release date was moved up to October 24.

According to Deadline the biography is based on 40 interviews with jobs as well as more than 100 interviews with friends, family members and colleagues.

At the time of Jobs’ death last week, the only movie chronicling his life and rise to fame was ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley,’ which was based on the book “Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer” by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine.

Again, it really comes to no surprise that a movie based on the tech titan is already in the works.

The biggest question remains, though, who should play Jobs in the film?

Leave your thoughts in the comments section.  

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Jobs, who was born to an American graduate student mother and a Syrian political science student father, was adopted right after birth.

His adoptive parents were a couple from Mountain View, California. Soon after that, though, his biological parents got married and had a daughter, Mona.

As International Business Times reports, after her parents divorced, Mona took the last name of Simpson, her stepfather’s name. Simpson and Jobs didn’t meet until he was 27 years old; she invited him to a party in NYC after her novel “Anywhere But Here” was published. (It was later made into a movie starring Natalie Portman.)

In 1996, Simpson published “A Regular Guy,” a novel that many suspect is not-so-loosely based on her brother’s life. The main character, Thomas Rudolf Owens, is a judgmental genius who is paranoid about his privacy. Owens at first denies being the father of his daughter. In real life, Jobs also claimed he was not the father of Lisa Brennan-Jobs, who he later acknowledged as his daughter. Coincidence?

Simpson later married Richard Appel, one of the writers for “The Simpsons.” The IBT reports that Appel named Homer Simpson’s mother after his wife, Mona.

And that’s your “Did-you-know-this-about-Steve-Jobs” factoid of the day!

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Customers who can’t wait for the iPhone 4S to officially go on sale next week can head to Apple’s website to order it now and choose a rate plan and carrier– either Sprint, AT&T or Verizon.

The phone comes in black or white and ranges from $199 to $399, depending on the gigabytes.

The new iPhone 4S features a dual-core A5 chip, 8MP camera, iOS 5, iCloud and Siri, a personal assistant feature.

The iPhone 4S was unveiled Tuesday, just one day before Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passed away at age 56.

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Everyone from your neighbor to Taco Bell commemorated the co-founder of Apple on Twitter.

Of course celebrities also reacted to the news as well.

Singer Pete Wentz’ tweeted summed it up the best:

“There are few people who have made an impression in every area of the modern world. Steve Jobs was a such a person — a modern Leonardo da Vinci. He changed the way we thought about art, design, invention, and the future by combining them all. He has been someone that taught me it’s important to believe in what you do no matter how against the grain or revolutionary it is. He was a true visionary in every sense of the word.”

Below is a roundup of celebrity tweets mourning Steve Jobs’ death.

Ryan Seacrest: “‘Have the courage to follow ur heart & intuition. They already know what u truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.’ – Steve Jobs”

Jesse Tyler Ferguson: ”So sad to hear about the brilliant Steve Jobs passing. RIP. Sent with love from my iPhone.”

Vinny Guadagnino: “STEVE JOBS IS DEAD?!?!!? NOOOOOO REST IN PEACE TO A TRUE AMERICAN GENIUS”

Mandy Moore: RIP Steve Jobs. Thank you for your innovation and genius. My heart goes out to his family and loved ones….

Jane Lynch: “We will miss you, Steve Jobs. Sent lovingly from my iPhone.”

Anderson Cooper: “My first Apple product, the Apple 2E computer. I think that’s what it was called.”

Howard Stern: “Steve Jobs was a true original. So Sad. A tremendous loss.”

Mindy Kaling: “Hard not to think how much Steve Jobs could’ve done with more years. So sad. You’re the best, Steve.”

Tory Burch: “Saddened by the loss of #SteveJobs. A true visionary and inspiration.”

Ashton Kutcher: ”I never thought I could be so busted up about the loss of someone I never met. #stevejobs”

Danny DeVito: “Steve Jobs miss you from the planet have you with me every day on earth”

Jimmy Fallon: “Thank you, Steve Jobs, for all of the fun and amazing ways you made our lives better….Sent from my iPhone.”

Zooey Deschanel: “So sad about Steve Jobs, he was a truly inspirational man.”

Dianna Agron: “We never met, yet I stand beside members of this giant playground that you discovered for us. We use it every day, never tiring of the sand.”

Alec Baldwin: “Sad about Steve Jobs. On par with Henry Ford, Carnegie and Edison.”

Neil Patrick Harris: “Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. Your genius will live on for generations to come…”

Ricky Martin: “Where is the excitement gonna come from. We won’t see another you in this lifetime. Thank you for everything Steve! :o(“

Read more:

10 inspirational quotes from Steve Jobs
VIDEO: Steve Jobs’ greatest moments
What exactly is pancreatic cancer?
American mourn Steve Jobs’ passing PHOTOS

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What exactly is pancreatic cancer, though?

According to Cancer.org, the pancreas is a small, fish-shaped organ found behind the stomach.

The organ has two different kinds of glands: the exocrine and the endocrine.

While tumors can form on both glands, exocrine tumors are much more common.

.In the United States each year, more than 30,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to MedicalNewsToday.com. The disease is more common in Europe as 60,000 people are diagnosed annually.

Since the cancer is usually diagnosed late into its development, the five-year survival rate is less than 5%.

Jobs, who lived for seven years after he was diagnosed, had a neuroendocrine tumor. This is a less common, slower-growing tumor which his usually more treatable.

Read more:

10 inspirational quotes from Steve Jobs
VIDEO: Steve Jobs’ greatest moments
Americans mourn Steve Jobs’ passing PHOTOS

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Jobs, who touched the daily lives of countless millions of people through the Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad, died on Wednesday at age 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He stepped down as Apple chief executive in August.

In New York City, an impromptu memorial made from flowers, candles and a dozen green and red apples was erected outside a 24-hour Apple store on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, with fans snapping photos of it on their iPhones.

“It was really sad news for us,” said Daiichiro Tashiro, 25, visiting from Tokyo.

Tributes poured in both from ordinary people and from the pinnacles of the business and political worlds.

At an Apple store in Sydney, lawyer George Raptis, who was 5 years old when he first used a Macintosh computer, spoke for almost everyone who has come into contact with Apple. “He’s changed the face of computing,” he said. “There will only ever be one Steve Jobs.”

A college dropout and the son of adoptive parents, Jobs changed the technology world in the late 1970s, when the Apple II became the first personal computer to gain a wide following. He did it again in 1984 with the Macintosh, which built on breakthrough technologies developed at Xerox Parc and elsewhere to create the personal computing experience as we know it today.

The rebel streak that was central to his persona got him tossed out of Apple in 1985, but he returned in 1997 and after a few years began the rollout of a troika of products  that again upended the established order in major industries.

A diagnosis of a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004 initially cast only a mild shadow over Jobs and Apple, with the CEO asserting that the disease was treatable. But his health deteriorated rapidly over the past several years.

Jobs’s death came just one day after Cook presented a new iPhone at the kind of gala event that became Jobs’s trademark. Perhaps coincidentally, the new device got lukewarm reviews.

Student design a hit on the Web

A Hong Kong design student’s poignant tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs became an Internet hit Thursday with its minimalist, touching symbolism — and brought a job offer and a flood of commemorative merchandise using his design.

Jonathan Mak, 19, a student at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University School of Design, came up with the idea of incorporating Steve Jobs’ silhouette into the bite of the Apple logo, symbolizing both Jobs’ departure and lingering presence at the core of the company.

The logo was even used as the Twitter profile picture for Ashton Kutcher.

“It’s been a crazy day for me,” Mak told Reuters. “I’m both excited and terrified,” added the teenager.
Mak said he had received a job offer because of the design.

Mak, who first created the logo after Jobs stepped down as Apple’s head in August, said it hadn’t made much of a splash until he reposted it Thursday.

“Originally, I was going to put a black modified logo against a white background,” said the bespectacled Mak. “It just didn’t feel somber enough. I just wanted it to be a very quiet commemoration. It’s just this quiet realization that Apple is now missing a piece. It’s just kind of implying his absence.”

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The Westboro Baptist Church, famous for its firm stance against just about everything, is at it again!

Apparently, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died yesterday, was the devil and those who knew him should not be permitted to pay their respects at his funeral without the Westboro protesters wielding their signs and yelling obscenities. To get the word out about what an evil corporate type Jobs was, Westboro
member Margie J. Phelps decided to use that little start-up non-profit
called Twitter.

@MarjieJPhelps,  had tweeted, “Westboro will picket his funeral. He had a huge platform; gave God no glory & taught sin. MT @AP: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died at 56.”

Well, it didn’t take long for other Twitter users to pick up on the fact that she tweeted it from an iPhone and start tearing her to shreds and calling her a hypocrite. After some healthy back-and-forth during which Phelps proclaimed that “God created the iPhone” so she could make comments like that, she finally de-activated her account. Damn.

Well, Marjie, guess you learned if you can’t take the heat, get out of the Twitter.

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Re-watch him take playful jabs at Bill Gates, give a commencement speech at Stanford and unveil the first iPod and iPhone. Love Apple or hate it, his vision inspired millions to think, dream and laugh.

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Jobs, 56, died Wednesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Jobs co-founded the computer, media and electronics giant with Steve Wozniak in 1976 but left eight years later, returning in 1996 to reinvigorate Apple and bring about a string of successful innovations, including the iMac personal computer, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. His health a matter of public concern for years, Jobs underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004. After leaves of absence for medical reasons in 2009 — during which he received a liver transplant — and earlier this year, Jobs officially resigned on August 24, stating in a letter at the time that he could “no longer meet [his] duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO.”

While being Mr. iPod, iPhone and iPad, he was also a man of words.

Here are 10 of Jobs’ most inspirational quotes:

1. “Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

2. That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

3. “I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”

4. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

5. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

6.”My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.”

7. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. … Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

8. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

9. “Picasso had a saying: ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal.’ We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas…I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, artists, zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.”

10.  “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”

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Jobs co-founded the computer, media and electronics giant with Steve Wozniak in 1976 but left eight years later, returning in 1996 to reinvigorate Apple and bring about a string of successful innovations, including the iMac personal computer, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. His health a matter of public concern for years, Jobs underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004. After leaves of absence for medical reasons in 2009 — during which he received a liver transplant — and earlier this year, Jobs officially resigned on August 24, stating in a letter at the time that he could “no longer meet [his] duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO.”

Following the news of his death, the Apple homepage read:

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost
an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to
know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring
mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and
his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors via  TechCrunch.

CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.

Read more:

10 inspirational quotes from Steve Jobs.

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Jobs, who fought and survived a rare form of pancreatic cancer and revolutionized the technology arena with the iPhone in 2007, is deemed the heart and soul of a company that he himself started in a garage in the late 1970s.

“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know,” he said in a brief letter announcing his resignation. “Unfortunately, that day has come.”

A college dropout, a Buddhist and a son of adoptive parents, Jobs started Apple Computer with friend Steve Wozniak. The company soon introduced the Apple 1 computer. But it was the Apple II that became a huge success and gave Apple its position as a critical player in the then-nascent PC industry, culminating in a 1980 IPO that made Jobs a multimillionaire.

“I will say to investors: Don’t panic and remain calm,” said analyst Colin Gillis.

Below, the text to Jobs’ resignation letter, via Gizmodo:

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet
my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let
you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board
sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it.
And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new
role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank
you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

Steve

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