Fake Steve Jobs to Write Online TV Series

No, the public doesn't have the right to know and this isn't a teaching moment

(NEWSER) - Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave of absence, and we should all just ... let him be absent, writes the guy who's spent the better part of the last few years tweaking the Apple guru. None other than Fake Steve Jobs, aka Dan Lyons, has put his blog on hiatus effective immediately, and takes to the Daily Beast to call for those "filthy hacks" out there to "leave Steve alone." Lyons knows it's unlikely to happen: "They will rationalize the prying story by saying that Apple is a public company and investors need—nay, deserve—this information. Well, bullshit." More»

'I just can't stand other people,' Apple chief might say

(NEWSER) - We’ve all got an opinion on the Tiger Woods saga, but now comes one that really matters: Steve Jobs’. Or, actually, the blogger known as Fake Steve Jobs , who fills us in on why the Apple chief would never be in such a mess: “The reason I’ve never been busted is that I simply don’t cheat. … I can never work up the energy to be interested in other people. Male or female. I just can’t stand them. Not. At. All.” More»

Glowing Mountain Dew, UFOs also make list

(NEWSER) - The Internet probably doesn’t need more false information, but some of the recent hoaxes have been so good that ComputerWorld had to recognize them. Here’s their list of best new tomfoolery:

• GoogleTV made thousands log into GMail over and over and over.
• Many thought the UFO Haiti video was proof we weren’t alone.