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Dennis Ritchie‘s work, though invisible to us laymen, is a fundamental building block of every computer system we use today. Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best know for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, [...]
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Seeing people mourn Steve Jobs in public is making me uneasy. Was he a hero? Was he even a humanitarian? Richard Stallman, leader of the free software movement, has an alternative take on Steve Jobs’ life and passing… As one can surmise from that sendoff, Stallman’s and Jobs’ views on software as a business are [...]
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Co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, has died. In 1996, it was on the brink of irrelevance, but Jobs retook the reigns as CEO and turned Apple into a multi-disciplinary powerhouse of a company, even (briefly) to the level of most highly valued company on Earth. I’ve been an Apple customer and advocate from the age [...]
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In Photos: Two months later, the oil still flows – Yahoo! News.
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What are they gonna say about him? What are they gonna say? That he was a kind man? That he was a wise man? That he had plans, man? That he had wisdom? Bullshit, man! Dennis Hopper Dead at 74 – ABC News
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A prominent opposition and rights activist in Russia’s southern province of Ingushetia was shot dead Sunday in at least the third killing of a human rights defender in the volatile North Caucasus region in just over three months. Another Opposition Activist Is Killed in Russia (via NYTimes.com)
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The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima August 6th, marks 64 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States at the end of World War II. Targeted for military reasons and for its terrain (flat for easier assessment of the aftermath), Hiroshima was home to approximately 250,000 people at the time of the [...]
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Cult author JG Ballard dies at 78
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Based on images and video, a wildlife expert who provides support to the center said the small creature was a free tail bat that likely had a broken left wing and some problem with its right shoulder or wrist. The animal likely perished quickly during Discovery’s climb into orbit. NASA – Bat Hung onto Shuttle [...]
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Found this story via a photo on flickr…it’s amazing (and well-written)! Initially, Taz leads them away from the trailhead, back toward town. Weird, the rescuers think. But they follow. And Taz sees them. Shortly thereafter he turns around, “like once he knew he had attracted enough attention, it was time to go back into the [...]
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