Between Adele's big night and artists paying tribute to Whitney Houston, you may have missed that Steve Jobs won a Grammy Award last night.

Jobs was the recipient of a Trustees Award for his "innovations such as the iPod and its counterpart, the online iTunes store," which "revolutionized the industry and how music was distributed and purchased," according to The Recording Academy.

Apple's Head of iTunes Eddy Cue accepted the award for Jobs, who died on Oct. 5, 2011 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. "Music meant so much to him," Cue said. "Music shaped his life, it made him who he was."

Jobs was also included in last night's "In Memoriam" slideshow, an annual portion of the Grammy's remembering lives lost in the industry in the past year. He was listed as a "digital music pioneer."

Several on Twitter took notice of this.

"Wow, sign of the times. Steve Jobs included In Memoriam because he was a digital music pioneer..." said Sarah-Ann Soffer, a PR manager in New York.

Others found irony in the mention.

"Honoring Steve Jobs yet the RIAA fought digital music tooth and nail," Bobby Dunlap wrote.

"Wait! Did they just call Steve Jobs a digital music pioneer? The same people that wanted to stop him from 'destroying' the industry? #irony," added Emily Weiner.

This morning, Nate Lanxon, the editor of Wired.co.uk, expressed support for Jobs's Grammy.

"Glad Steve Jobs got a Grammy. He's done more for the music industry over the last decade than the music industry did itself," Lanxon said.

It was first announced in December that Jobs would win the award. Discussion started then on Google+ on whether he deserved the award and it continues today. The official Grammy website describes the Trustees Award as given to individuals who make "significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording."

This wasn't the first Grammy award honoring Apple's contributions to the music industry. The company also received a technical Grammy in 2002 for its computer technology's role revolutionizing the music industry, as reported by CNET.

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Your inner geek will smile the next time you board a Virgin America flight. After all, there's a chance that you'll be stepping onto a plane that is named in honor of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Virgin America's Abby Lunardini explained to me that one of the airline's jets — an Airbus A320 — has "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" stenciled on its nose as the result of an internal plane naming competition which was run in the fall of 2011. At that time, the aircraft name was submitted "as a tribute" to Jobs by one of Virgin America's employees. The plane entered service late last year.

The phrase is a frequently quoted line from the commencement address delivered by Jobs at Stanford University on June 12, 2005. During his speech, he explained that he saw those words on the issue of "The Whole Earth Catalog," a counterculture publication — and that they resonated throughout his life:

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

As Lunardini pointed out to me, Virgin America is the only airline based in Silicon Valley, the home of Apple. All the more fitting.

Oh, and in case you're under the impression that "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" is a strange name for a plane, then boy-oh-boy have I got news for you.

According to the folks at Planespotters.net, a site dedicated to keeping track of all sorts of airline related details, Virgin America has planes with names such as "the 1-year-old virgin," "let there be flight," "Virgin & Tonic," Air Colbert," "my other ride is a spaceship," Arnold," "#nerdbird," "Superfly," and so on.

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" will fit right in.

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Remember the incredibly realistic (and incredibly unofficial) Steve Jobs action figure that was supposed to become available in February? The one that Apple tried to ban by making legal threats?

That action figure has officially been canceled by its maker.

According to PC World, Tandy Cheung — the Hong Kong businessman behind In Icons, the company which created the toy in question — announced that he was letting go of this particular project by his own volition:

Though we still believe that we have not overstepped any legal boundaries, we have decided to completely stop the offer, production and sale of the Steve Jobs figurine out of our heartfelt sensitivity to the feelings of the Jobs family.

Cheung goes on to explain that his company has received "immense pressure" from both lawyers representing Apple as well as Steve Jobs' family. According to him, the action figure was intended to be "a tribute" to Jobs, and "honored the copyrights and trademarks of Apple."

As we've mentioned before, Apple's legal objections should not have come as a surprise — despite Cheung's assertions that the action figure is legally untouchable. 

In late 2010, a similar series of events played out when somewhat less realistic Steve Jobs action figures were sold through and by a website called M.I.C. Gadget. A law firm representing Apple quickly put an end to things when it requested that the company cease marketing and selling the action figure.

Apple's lawyers claimed back then — just as they did this time around — that the whole "wrangle is over the likeness of the doll to the late Apple founder, the rights of which the company claims it owns," as the Telegraph's Amy Willis explains.

And in a further case of history repeating itself, a handful of In Icon's recently out-of-production action figures have made their way onto eBay — with price tags as high as $2,500 — just as the M.I.C. Gadget versions did after their demise.

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Did you shudder when you first saw the incredibly realistic Steve Jobs action figure that's supposedly becoming available in February? You're not alone — if Apple's attempts to ban the toy are anything to go by.

The Telegraph reports that Apple is "allegedly threatening to sue" In Icons, the maker of the action figure.

This legal threat comes as no surprise considering that the the 1:6 scale figure — which was previously said to be slated for distribution by a company called DiD Corp. — isn't the first of its kind, nor the only one to face Apple's army of lawyers.

In late 2010, somewhat less realistic Steve Jobs action figures were sold through and by a website called M.I.C. Gadget. A law firm representing Apple quickly put an end to things when it requested that the company cease marketing and selling the action figure though.

Apple's lawyers claimed back then — as well as this time around — that the whole "wrangle is over the likeness of the doll to the late Apple founder, the rights of which the company claims it owns," as the Telegraph's Amy Willis explains.

We'll have to wait and see if the threat of legal action will take yet another Steve Jobs action figure off the market, but — after reading the comments made by Tandy Cheung, the businessman behind In Icons, to ABC News — we're not so sure that this one will disappear without a fight:

"Apple can do anything they like," Cheung said. "I will not stop, we already started production."

[...]

While he said he was aware Apple had stopped other companies from making Steve Jobs dolls in the past, Cheung said he is "not sure" if his action figure will cause Apple to take legal action. But, Cheung said, he spoke with several lawyers in Hong Kong who told him he wasn't in violation as long as he doesn't include any Apple products with the figure.

Of course, Cheung made those remarks before Apple's lawyers stepped in. He may no longer be so confident about his assertion that "Steve Jobs is not an actor, he's just a celebrity," and that "[t]here is no copyright protection for a normal person." 

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I adore action figures and I respect Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs, but the Steve Jobs action figure that's supposedly becoming available in late February makes me want to run away screaming.

Just look at it! It's so realistic that it's genuinely a little bit unnerving.

The Verge's Joseph L. Flatley seems to agree with my assessment — though he prefers to describe the action figure as "pretty awesome" yet almost "Uncanny Valley-creepy."

Flatley reports that the 1:6 scale figure will be distributed by a company called DiD Corp., cost a hundred bucks (plus shipping) once it becomes available in February, and have some remarkable characteristics. Creepily remarkable characteristics, that is:

The company wants you to take note of [the action figure's] "piercing eyes of soul" that will "always remind you to stay hungry, stay foolish and to follow your heart in the limited life."

Am I the only one shuddering? Must be all those creepy beady-eyed dolls I encountered as a child.

It's worth noting that DiD Corp.'s figurine isn't the first of its kind. Toward the end of 2010, Steve Jobs action figures were sold through and by a website called M.I.C. Gadget. The fun didn't last long though, because a law firm representing Apple quickly requested that the company cease marketing and selling the action figure.

Will the (far more realistic) action figure offered DiD Corp. suffer the same fate? We'll just have to wait and see.

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Even in the afterlife, Steve Jobs continues to rack up accolades. The Recording Academy is bestowing upon him a Trustees Award, an honorary Grammy, that will be acknowledged at the awards ceremony in February.

The Recording Academy previously honored Jobs' company, Apple, with a Grammy in 2002 for "outstanding technical significance to the recording field," the same year Jobs won the Producers Guild of America's Vanguard Award for Pixar Animation Studios.

Here's what the Academy wrote about Jobs in giving him this posthumous honor:

As former CEO and co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs helped create products and technology that transformed the way we consume music, TV, movies, and books. A creative visionary, Jobs' innovations such as the iPod and its counterpart, the online iTunes store, revolutionized the industry and how music was distributed and purchased. 

The Trustees Award falls within the Academy's Special Merit Awards, which also include technical Grammy Awards and the Lifetime Achievement Awards. According to the Academy's press release, the Trustees Award "recognizes such contributions in areas other than performance" and is "determined by vote of The Recording Academy's National Board of Trustees."

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Steve Jobs had a lot of secrets in his personal life, but among his "Secrets of Life" for success were some inspiring words, shared in a video by that name, now available on a pay-per-view basis by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association.

The non-profit group, whose mission is to "research and record the Silicon Valley phenomenon," interviewed Jobs in 1995 when the Apple co-founder was at NeXT Computer, another company the young entrepreneur started after being ousted from Apple (of course, he later returned).

The 29-minute film costs $9.99 to watch, with proceeds benefiting the association, which has established the Steve Jobs: Secret of Life website for the video.

In this snippet shared above, Jobs is passionate (what else?) about life and how one should live it, saying the average guidance most of us get is to "live your life inside the world ... try not to bash into the walls too much."

Not so, he says:

Life can be much broader ... once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

And the minute that you understand that you can poke life ... and actually ... if you push in, something will pop out the other side ... you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing, is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just going to live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important.

And however you learn that, once you learn it ... you'll want to change life and make it better, cuz it's kind of messed up in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

Inspirational words, to be sure; and words Jobs did live by until his death in October.

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Amazon.com is out this morning with the list of its top 10 best-selling books of 2011, and the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson is at the top, despite having the disadvantage of being released toward the end of the year.

The list is based on unit sales of traditional print books and titles for Amazon’s Kindle electronic reader.

In a notable development for e-books, two of the top 10 titles come from the Kindle Direct Publishing program for indie authors and made the list based on their Kindle sales alone, Amazon says. They were  “The Mill River Recluse” by Darcie Chan, at No. 4; and “The Abbey” by Chris Culver, at No. 9.

The biography of Jobs is the first authorized book on the Apple co-founder’s life. Published by Simon & Schuster, the book had been set for release next year, but was pushed up to November, and then to October after Jobs’ death.

Here’s the full list of top 10 best-selling books of 2011 from Amazon.com.

1. “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson
2. “Bossypants” by Tina Fey
3. “A Stolen Life” by Jaycee Dugard
4. “The Mill River Recluse” by Darcie Chan
5. “In the Garden of the Beasts” by Erik Larson
6. “A Dance with Dragons” by George R.R. Martin
7. “The Paris Wife” by Paula McLain
8. “The Litigators” by John Grisham
9. “The Abbey” by Chris Culver
10. “Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle)” by Christopher Paolini

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Steve Jobs helped create the first Apple computer and the rest is history, as many of us know, including the Macintosh, the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. But Jobs was fanatical about design and details, from the Apple power adapter plug that folds into the adapter, to the staircases of many of Apple's retail stores. There are more than 300 patents with his name on them, and they are showcased in an exhibit, "The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Art and Technology that Changed the World," sponsored by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

“This exhibit commemorates the far-reaching impact of Steve Jobs’ entrepreneurship and innovation on our daily lives,” said David Kappos, director of the patent and trademark office, in a statement.“His patents and trademarks provide a striking example of the importance intellectual property plays in the global marketplace.”

The exhibit — with Jobs' patents and trademarks shown on a slew of ginormous iPhone mock-ups — was created and designed by Invent Now, a non-profit organization "dedicated to fostering invention and creativity," and which also runs the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum.

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The tribute to Jobs opened earlier this month, and goes through Jan. 15; it's located at the patent and trademark office's Alexandria, Va., campus, and is free and open to the public. You can learn more here.

If you can't make it to the exhibit, the New York Times put together a graphic of Jobs' patents. Despite some duds — the infamous iMac "hockey puck" mouse among them — there's little question Jobs' vision influenced the technology and design most of us are familiar with and appreciate today.

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(FILES) In this dated June 11, 2007 filed photo shows Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs gives the keynote address on the opening day of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 (WWDC 07) at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, California.

After 50 years of being named after one of the Soviet Union's founding fathers, one school might change its name to another kind of founding father, of innovative technology: Steve Jobs.

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but who would have guessed that a technical secondary school in Bulgaria would be the site of what could possibly be the first school named after Jobs? The school, located in the country's second biggest city, Plovdiv, has carried the name of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin until school officials decided they wanted a change. A decision hasn't been made yet, and a Bulgarian scientist may yet take the glory, reported Time magazine's Techland.

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870 - 1924), Russian revolutionary, making a speech in Moscow.

It is interesting to see the parallels between Jobs and Lenin in some ways, even though Lenin would have probably bristled at the idea of being compared to such a capitalist, however modestly Jobs lived.

Jobs, who died Oct. 5 at age 56, reigned over Apple and helped propel it to be the world's most valuable tech company, with a value of $351 billion, making it a formidable superpower among tech giants. 

Lenin, who died in 1924 at age 53, overturned Russia's czars with the Bolsheviks, and formed the foundation of what would become the USSR. While the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union has lessened the impact of the power of the countries when they were unified under Kremlin rule, for much of the last century, post World War II, it was one of two superpowers along with the U.S.

Jobs freed consumers from lugging around CDs and CD players, giving music to the masses through iPods. Later, he gave the world iPhones and iPads, furthering the freedom to read, listen and communicate anywhere.

Lenin saw the value of communicating with the masses too, and recorded several speeches in 1919 on what was then considered cutting-edge technology: gramophone records. For a few years, his name also graced what is now the Ukraine's National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute (KhPI).  

We're left wondering: When will the first U.S. school consider renaming (or naming) itself after Jobs?

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No matter your opinion on the legacy of Steve Jobs, we can likely all agree on this: Dude had some unconventional health habits. The new biography by Walter Isaacson details some of the weirder ones, from extremely restrictive diets to questionable personal hygiene. (A personal favorite: One of his go-to stress relievers during Apple's early days was soaking his bare feet in the company toilets.)

We asked some nutrition experts to weigh in on some of the stranger, stricter eating habits of the legendary tech tycoon.

Apples-and-carrots only diet
The book details his occasional tendency to eat only one or two foods, like carrots or apples, for weeks at a time. Besides developing a sunset-like hue -- which those who worked with him are quoted as remembering -- there are other health issues that can come from adhering to such a limited diet, says Elisa Zied, registered dietitian and msnbc.com contributor. 

"Although apples and carrots are healthful and provide carbohydrates, they have very little protein -- unlike fat and carbohydrates, protein can’t be stored in the body, so it’s important to consume enough protein rich foods each day," explains Zied, who's the author of the book, "Nutrition at Your Fingertips."

Protein provides the body with energy and structural support -- it also helps preserve lean muscle tissue that keeps your metabolism raring to go, and it supports muscle function. But if you don't take in enough protein, your body will miss out on essential amino acids, Zied says. "These essential amino acids are used to make body proteins ... that support growth and maintenance of body tissues."

Another drawback of a carrots- or apples-only diet: You aren't getting enough fat. 

"Without enough dietary fat, your body’s fat stores can become depleted," Zied explains. "Your skin may suffer, you may feel more cold more often, and your organs and body tissues may be more vulnerable against injury -- especially risky for those with chronic illness."

Flirting with fruitarianism
Jobs also spent some time as a fruitarian, a subset of veganism that means eating only fruits, nuts, seeds, vegetables and grains -- absolutely no animal products. "Basically, the reproductive parts of plants that can be consumed without doing any harm to the plant itself," TODAY nutritionist Joy Bauer explains. This kind of diet does contain some very healthy foods, and many vegans manage to keep extremely healthful diets. But experts caution that without a careful eating plan, essential nutrients may be missing. 

"This type of diet is extremely restrictive as it eliminates dairy foods ...  and probably doesn’t contain enough dietary fat unless you’re eating lots of nuts and seeds," Zied explains. "And because the foods you can eat (or beverages you can drink) are so limited, you only get the nutrients provided in the specific foods."

Plus, it's an expensive diet to adhere to for a long period of time, Bauer points out. 

Veganism and the tyranny of the daily shower
Jobs also believed that his commitment to vegan diets meant his body was flushed of mucus -- and that it meant he was free from body odor, so he didn't need to wear deodorant or shower regularly. Unsurprisingly, the book quotes former coworkers saying that he was very, very wrong. 

Actually, the lack of complete proteins in vegan-style diets might impede the body's detoxification process, which "could make him smell even more," says JJ Virgin, nutrition expert and co-star of TLC's "Freaky Eaters." As for mucus -- Jobs may have had a point there. Dietary changes can help reduce the goo, especially for those who produce excessive mucus because of illness.

The agony and the ecstasy of fasting
Jobs would sometimes turn to fasting to create feelings of euphoria and ecstasy. What he was most likely experiencing was something called ketosis, which develops after a period of fasting and can lead to mild euphoria. When you're eating normally, glucose is the body's primary energy source, Zied explains. But when you're fasting, your body creates small chemicals called ketones that act as a substitute for glucose, and can be used for energy by most body cells. 

"If your body makes more ketones than it needs to create energy, a dangerous condition called ketosis develops," Zied says. "This increases the loss of sodium and water from the body and can contribute to nausea, weakness, fatigue."

What do think of some of Jobs' more unusual eating habits? (And, hey -- keep it civil.) What's the weirdest diet you've ever tried?

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This photo shows late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and his wife, Laurene Powell, arriving at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards on March 7, 2010.

Thanks to a statement made by his family on the day of his death, we knew that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passed away peacefully, surrounded by those dearest to him. But now — nearly a month later — we've discovered what his very final words were. 

The discovery was made on Sunday, when the New York Times published a copy of the eulogy given by Steve Jobs' sister, novelist Mona Simpson, at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University on October 16.

In the incredibly touching eulogy, Simpson revealed a great number of anecdotes which weren't previously publicly shared — not even in the recently published Steve Jobs biography — and painted a picture of her personal relationship with Jobs, right down to the very end.

Simpson began by explaining the significance her brother had in her life — from the moment they finally first met each other:

I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I’d met my father, I tried to believe he’d changed his number and left no forwarding address because he was an idealistic revolutionary, plotting a new world for the Arab people.

Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

She finished by sharing how the man described as our generation's Thomas Edison drew his final breaths:

Dr. Fischer gave him a 50/50 chance of making it through the night.

He made it through the night, Laurene next to him on the bed sometimes jerked up when there was a longer pause between his breaths. She and I looked at each other, then he would heave a deep breath and begin again.

This had to be done. Even now, he had a stern, still handsome profile, the profile of an absolutist, a romantic. His breath indicated an arduous journey, some steep path, altitude.

He seemed to be climbing.

But with that will, that work ethic, that strength, there was also sweet Steve’s capacity for wonderment, the artist’s belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later.

Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times.

Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them.

Steve’s final words were:

OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.

I strongly recommend heading over to the New York Times website and reading the full text of Simpson's eulogy. It provides a softer look at Jobs' life — a more human one than we've seen so far. 

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