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Erstwhile enemy Sculley: Jobs was 'greatest CEO'

Steve Jobs and John Sculley got off to a rough start, with Jobs luring the former PepsiCo executive to Apple and Sculley eventually ousting Jobs from the company. But Sculley has a very different view today, a day after Jobs' death.

"His legacy is far more than being the greatest CEO ever," Sculley told The Wall Street Journal. "A world leader is dead, but the lessons his leadership taught us live on."

Sculley, who has criticized himself for failing to recognize the potential of Apple's HyperCard software, called Jobs a "brilliant genius who transformed … Read more

Sidesplitting tech comics

Whoever said geeks have no sense of humor was wrong--laughably so. Some of the funniest comics out there are Web comics (or those rendered for the Web,) written by techies, for the techies who love them. Here's a bushel of geeky favorites, in no particular order.

1. xkcd Randall Monroe, physicist, cartoonist, and at-heart romantic, is behind xkcd, a Web comic whose name curiously holds no mathematically obscure meaning. In his own words, Monroe's stick-figure style "occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors)." See? Funny.… Read more