Salon Blogs
All 63 hypertext enjambment-style GoogObits posts originally published on the Salon Blog I maintained from October 2002 through November 2003.
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GoogObits: Winner / Loser (Frank White, Rare Victor Over Clinton in Governor’s Race, Dies at 69)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 22 — Frank White, a former governor of Arkansas who was one of only two people to defeat Bill Clinton in an election, died at his home here on Wednesday. He was 69.
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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.