Nullary Sources

I was reading this excellent piece by Anil Dash on how Apple shows that liberal values aren’t antithetical to business success. I don’t really have anything to add other than full-throated agreement, but this caught my eye. On Jobs’s early life:

So, who is this man? He’s the anchor baby of an activist Arab muslim who came to the U.S. on a student visa and had a child out of wedlock.

I had no idea! Wikipedia:

Jobs was born in San Francisco, California and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian) of Mountain View, California, who named him Steven Paul. Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, who they named Patti. Jobs’ biological parents – Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian graduate student who later became a political science professor, and Joanne Simpson, an American graduate student who went on to become a speech language pathologist – later married, giving birth to and raising Jobs’ biological sister, the novelist Mona Simpson.