Bill Gates! Mr. Gates turns 53 today. In honor of the once-richest man in the world, we suggest you use Internet Explorer in Windows to read Gates' 2007 Harvard University commencement speech ("I'm a bad influence") and this entirely apocryphal list of "Rules Kids Won't Learn In School," which Gates did not actually write or deliver. Ah, well. It's all in the nerd appreciation vein. When Seattlest was growing up in the Northwest, Gates was on legend status as an uber-tech-savvy, 7-11 coffee-drinking whiz kid who made good--and monopoly suit or no, that's still the first image that comes to mind for us. Happy 53rd! more ›