Steve Jobs handles public encounters with a mixture of brazenness and celebrity caution, according to people who sent us stories about their run-ins with the Apple CEO. Read their tales—and send us yours—below.

Steve Jobs is so powerful, you can get rich just imitating the computer mogul. That seems to be the theory behind the premium cable network show under development with Fake Steve Jobs blogger Dan Lyons and noted director Larry Charles.

Steve Jobs is paranoid about security. The Apple CEO doesn't just happen to allow strangers to approach him, as during Jobs' coffee with his Google counterpart last week. Just ask anyone familiar with Jobs' high-security New York Times visit.

Apple's iPad could make it the king of old media, arbiter of taste and technology alike. So magazines and newspapers have begun a series of countermoves that could turn the quietest dogfight in media into the most vicious.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly told the Wall Street Journal it would be "trivial" for the newspaper to ditch Adobe's Flash software in preparation for the iPad. Media-industry types who disagree have been emailing us; their comments follow below.

An iPad version of the Wall Street Journal will cost you $216 a year.

It is well known that you can email Steve Jobs at sjobs@apple.com. It is less well-known that he sometimes responds. He has been doing this a lot lately. Come on, everybody, let's email Steve Jobs!

Eric Schmidt hates camping. Which is why, when Steve Jobs broke up with him, Google's CEO was at a payphone on a lonesome desert road, 45 minutes from Burning Man, with only his mistress Kate Bohner near his side.

The photo below shows Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his then-mistress Kate Bohner at Burning Man in 2007. The set contains what we believe to be the first published picture of Schmidt with one of his mistresses.

All the nerds are in one place this week at SXSW, but, let's face it, we all have a little bit of nerd in us. These days geekdom is large and diverse enough for everyone. Where do you fit in?

Apple has hired "wearable computing" expert Richard DeVaul as a prototype scientist. Devaul invented something called "memory glasses" which display reminders onto glasses lenses. Here's a suggestion: A pair of Bermuda shorts that can save the magazine industry. [WSJ]

Remember the 3DO? Or the Power Glove? It's easy to forget that the lineage of today's Playstations and Xboxes is filled with so many odd mutants never fit for mass consumption. Here's a look into the awkward, gawky past.

An Apple Store staffer said she was choked by Richard Belzer. The Law & Order star, meanwhile, says he just touched the employee's shoulders to get her attention. Plus she's a crazy person who kept him waiting.

In addition to to providing your digital music, movies and "print" media, Apple would also like to be the gateway to your home and bank account. Meet the iKey, the invention that lets Steve Jobs mediate your most private spaces.

An "elite" monologuist is mounting a play about Apple's CEO. It's titled The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs; it promises to "dive into" the "epic story of a real-life Willy Wonka;" and it opens in Jobs's back yard.

If Apple wins its patent-infringement case against the Google Nexus One smartphone, it might be able to get all existing handsets bricked or crippled. It's not a far-fetched idea, a Harvard Law professor told the New York Times Bits blog.

Apple products are made in factories that regularly employ young teenagers, constantly work people more than 60 hours per week, and falsify records to cover up their misdeeds. That's according to the shameless gossiping muckrakers at... uh, Apple Inc.

Tonight's episode of SNL was a bore until this: a hilarious, celebrity-centric spoof of CBS' Undercover Boss that featured Steve Jobs as a trash man (you know where this is going), Richard Branson, Martha Stewart and more. Video inside.

It came, it saw, it killed the CD. Proof it's no longer revolutionary, but heading towards ubiquity? The 10 billionth purchase came when "71-year-old Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Ga., bought "Guess Things Happen That Way" by Johnny Cash." [ABC]

Churches: Old and busted. Getting married at the place you spend all your money is way better. Plus, the groom needed to pick up a new Macbook charger anyway. Now everyone get your rice throwing app ready to go.