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RIP: William Hurt, 71
Hurt had been fighting prostate cancer for the last four years. A very accomplished actor, recently seen in a string of Marvel movies, but previously known for Kiss of the Spider Woman for which he won an Academy Award, Children of a Lesser God, and Broadcast News. ripRIP: UserFriendly.org
The daily web comic that was a joy to web developers and computer geeks for about 12 years or so, has finally been shut down. The comic started in 1997 by Illiad, J.D. Frazer, about a Canadian ISP and the people who ran it, covering all things geek and HTTP. In 2009 updates became rather sporadic, but continued looping daily with an occasional ( Read more... )Little Richard, one of the musical greats, RIP
Bone cancer took him at age 87. Very difficult thing to treat, bone cancer. It's resistant to radiation and chemo. Still, 87 is a good age to reach by any standard.
Little Richard is known for a number of hits: Good Golly Miss Molly, Long Tall Sally, and, of course, Tutti Frutti. He also was a pioneer in gender fluidity. His first hit, Tutti ( Read more... )RIP: Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk was a band that was largely responsible for the creation of the electro music movement. Florian started working with the other co-founder, Ralf Hütter, in 1968! He passed after a short battle with cancer.
FUCK CANCER.
The band had several lineup changes, their final album together was 2003’s Tour de France Soundtracks. They were known ( Read more... )RIP: Honor Blackman
She was 94. Famous as the second of Steed's women in the original The Avengers, she preceded Mrs. Peel and left the series to be a Bond girl in Goldfinger. Her death was unrelated to COVID ( Read more... )RIP: Max von Sydow
What an actor, one of the true greats. Very famously known for his work with Bergman and his game of chess played with Death, he also was the voice of the three-eyed raven in Game of Thrones, he was in Stallone's Judge Dread, the 1984 Dune movie, Never Say Never Again, Strange Brew, Conan The Barbarian (he worked with both Stallone and Ahnold?!), ( Read more... )RIP: Larry Tesler, 74. The man invented Copy, Cut, and Paste!
Larry was a Stanford graduate and in 1973 he was working for Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, also known as the birthplace of the modern graphic user interface and mouse. It was there that he was working with a group of people on a word processor called Gypsy that he developed those three very critical key combinations that I use daily ( Read more... )RIP: Kirk "I am Spartacus!" Douglas, aged 103
What an amazing career! Nominated thrice for an Academy Award, snubbed each time. Finally bought the rights to the book One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, brought it to Broadway, grew frustrated that no studio wanted to turn it into a movie, so he gave it to his son Michael. The film won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor. ( Read more... )RIP: Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers Star! Aged 41.
WOW! Helicopter crash! Helicopters are notoriously finicky to fly and it doesn't take much to knock them out of the air. Five other people died in the crash, including Kobe's daughter ( Read more... )Monty Python--: Terry Jones, RIP
Terry passed away from a form of dementia that robbed him of his ability to communicate, he was 77. Part of their last series of performances paid off his mortgage and debts so he didn't have to worry about his financial future ( Read more... )