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William Safire dead at 79

Mo Nickels — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:11:19 -0800

RIP the master maven: William Safire dead at 79 of cancer. As someone who worked with him behind the scenes to help him with research for his language columns, I'm thankful for his attempts to bring discussions of language into popular discourse, or as he called it, his work in "the language dodge." He didn't always get his language data right, but he gave a lot of other people in the language dodge a boost by talking about their books, by mentioning their names and projects, and being unstinting with blurbs. I'll leave comments about his politics to others who knew him in that realm.

Robert Rauschenberg, dead at 82.

krautland — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:08:19 -0800

Robert Rauschenberg (previously), painter, sculptor, perfomance artist, printmaker, photographer, theater designer, technologist, dead at 82. Here's the American Masters profile of Rauschenberg, an old interview about his erasing of a De Kooning, the Man At Work piece and a long Charlie Rose interview with him (starts at around 30 minutes in, after Chuck Close).

Blogging May Cost You Your Life

doug3505 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:03:48 -0800

Blogging May Cost You Your Life NY Times discusses the possible "death by blogging" of two prominent Tech Bloggers, Russell Shaw and Marc Orchant, Blognation. A third, Om Malik of gigaom.com, 41, survived a heart attack in December. I am thinking twice about my late night posts.