GoogObits
Obituaries augmented by Google searches using hypertext enjambment. There is a lot to learn from the dead.
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GoogObit: Passion (George Morrow, a Personal Computer Visionary, Dies at 69)
George Morrow, a mathematician and programmer who was a member of a group of unorthodox hobbyists who were instrumental in creating the personal computer industry, died at his home in San Mateo, Calif., on Wednesday.
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GoogObit: Mad! (Robert Merkle, Who Tried Big Trafficker, Dies at 58)
Death is the great silencer. It’s always odd to read the obituary of someone who was, in life, a great noisemaker, whether it is actual noise or just the legal kind.
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GoogObits: Work (LARRY A. ROSENBAUM, 56)
Today we see how the gift of life was not squandered. Larry Rosenbaum was given the stereotypical “two years to live”. He took much more than he was given. And he gave a large company a set of intellectual property relating to the use of plastics. We are all work for hire.
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GoogObits: Things (LENORE BRESLAUER, 80)
LOS ANGELES — Lenore Breslauer, a founding member of the anti-war citizen group Another Mother for Peace during the Vietnam War, has died. She was 80.
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GoogObits: Friend of the Family (MOIRA TOBIN WICKES, 46)
This GoogObit was written by my brother Kevin, in tribute to a woman he and his family knew from their old parish. His daughter Moira, who shares the name of the deceased, was very good friends with her son Tim when they went to school together at Northside Catholic Academy, St. Gertrude Campus.