GoogObits
Obituaries augmented by Google searches using hypertext enjambment. There is a lot to learn from the dead.
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GoogObits: Words (Will McDonough, 67, Columnist Who Covered Every Super Bowl, Is Dead)
Obviously, we can say whatever we want. Free country, etc. But we’ve got to remember that what we say has a life of its own, and is repeated and re-purposed and syndicated and Googled and copied and just may end up at a time and place that you wouldn’t want them to be.
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GoogObits: The Uses of Wood (KARL GUSTAV DAHLSTROM, 102)
Karl Gustav Dahlstrom, 102, a carpenter who worked for Anderson Brothers Furniture in Chicago for 30 years and who spent almost every day of his adult life in a wood shop, died Wednesday, Jan. 8, in Windsor Park Manor in Carol Stream of natural causes.
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GoogObits: Sister (Rushton Skakel Is Dead at 79; Father of Killer)
Today we’re served up the second death in a row of a guy whose sister married into a royal family and whose death was announced by a lawyer. Patterns.
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GoogObits: Infection (Mohammed al-Fassi, 50; Upset Beverly Hills Over House)
For all of you out there: if you’ve somehow developed of tissue deficiency of the transversus abdominis muscle (which makes up the floor of the inguinal canal), allowing some of your intestines to protrude directly through a defect in the inguinal canal floor, you might want to go check that out professionally, or you may…
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GoogObits: Moments (Ezra Solomon, Who Shaped Finance Theory, Dies at 82)
Often obituaries act like long ribbons that run directly from your newspaper or monitor to a frozen moment in the past, and jolts a re-cognition of that moment.