In Defense of Steve Jobs Mike Elgan, Cult of Mac, 10/29/11. Too bad small minds always seem to concentrate on the negative. Maybe it's jealousy. Or, maybe it's the growing awareness that they will go to their graves without a single accomplishment to their names.

Exploring Other World Computing's super-green headquarters Chris Foresman, Ars Technica, 10/26/11. It's very gratifying to know that a company known for providing reliable Mac upgrades for decades is also in the forefront of green tech.

Isaacson interviewed Jony Ive in his bunker, here’s what came out with him Christian Zibreg, 9 to 5 Mac, 10/24/11. Steve Jobs may be gone, but his creative muse, designer of the iMac, the MacBook, and the Mac Pro, is still there cranking out iconic designs that are often copied by the rest of the computer industry.

Apple: More Records, Misses Expectations, Market Jerks Kate MacKenzie, PixoBebo, 10/19/11. Whatever one might think about Apple's support for its older Macs, It's great to see its success as a company in the past decade despite the nay-sayers on Wall Street who never really understood Apple in the first place.

Dennis M. Ritchie, Tech Expert Alumnus, Dies At 70 Alyza Sebenius, The Harvard Crimson, 10/17/11. He wasn't a rock star like Steve Jobs, but much of the tech world stands on his shoulders.

Your dead iPhone is a gold mine - literally David Goldman, CNN Money, 10/13/11. Now if they could just extend this metals recovery technology to dead Macs instead of just sending them off to China.

A conversation with Woz Dan Lyons, RealDan, 10/11/11. Woz has been very busy this past week explaining how he and Steve Jobs did, or didn't, get along during the early days of Apple.

Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs Slashdot, 10/10/11. I'm all for Open Source, but give the guy a chance to cool down in the grave and move on to the next reality before you start picking him apart. Criminy...

A Trip to China Can Make a Guy Hate His iPhone Catherine Rampell, New York Times, 10/3/11. “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” will play at the Public Theater in New York from Oct. 11 until Nov. 13. Macolytes who might be offended by taking the name of their favorite fruit company in vain are advised not to attend.

A Second Spring for PowerPC Macs Sebastian Patting, Low End Mac, 9/28/11. "Apple's unnecessary move to drop Rosetta support in OS X 10.7 Lion indicates that Cupertino is no longer interested in the desires of us cranky old Mac owners and now follows its new agenda." This is an astute observation.

Apple likely to stop supplying security updates to older Macs Mac Daily News, 9/15/11. I guess that means the end of support for PowerPC machines running Leopard, too.

Steve Jobs could help reboot the working class Harold Meyerson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/13/11. I'm glad that this particular article doesn't have a comments section. Macolyte trolls, you will have to sprew your venom somewhere else.

Apple now offering free recycling and Gift Cards for old Windows PCs Sebastian Anthony, Extreme Tech, 9/10/11. Apple is being very cagey about all of this. They offer you the convenience of getting that old PC (and Mac) machine off your hands. But, they aren't exactly saying what they will actually do with it. Will it just be put on a slow boat to China? Who knows? Who cares?