Yes, that Paul Newman:


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("Breathe" - Pink Floyd reunion for Live 8, 2005.)

Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvkPKyMswUo

NME Obit: http://www.nme.com/news/39724

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...on the ups and downs (not to mention the ins and outs) of four years of Facebook:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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R.I.P. Ken Campbell.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/sep/01/theatre.comedy

'Tis only a fancy, but I hope he's pulling Douglas' leg up there about all those last-minute Hitch-Hiker's scripts...

http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/geoffrey-perkins/

(Cheers to boingfeed.)

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Who is Anne Toth?

She's head of privacy (and VP of policy) at Yahoo, and has a neat line in justifying the company's "behavioral targeting" of advertising:

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc20080811_353762.htm


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Everyone's referencing his rôle as Chef in South Park, but to me he'll always be The Duke (from John Carpenter's Escape From New York).


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George Carlin died last night:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/24carlin.html

Everyone seems to be picking their favourite clips from his routines on YouTube, and posting 'em in obit entries, so here's one of mine...

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Stan Winston's died.

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/06/stan_winston_1946_2008.php

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