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Arthur C. Clarke, author of one of the most important works of science fiction ever (2001: A Space Odyssey) died yesterday at age 90.
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Don Herbert (aka Mr. Wizard) was one of the biggest influences in my early years as a nerd-in-training being raised by the teevee. His show on Nickelodeon, Mr Wizard’s World, was one of my favorites; it was cool, it was fun, it was smart, it was educational, and it had girls my age on it…
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Disco D (Dave Shayman) apparently committed suicide last night.  His future was too bright for this early end.  Fuck.
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Tristan’s long private battle against ALS finally ended today.
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He died yesterday doing what he loved and what we loved him for. I can’t help but think that that his death, due to a stingray striking him through the heart, was probably the way he would have chosen to go. Certainly better than dying in a car wreck, right?
Steve Irwin, dead at [...]

Paul Gleason, probably best known as the principal in The Breakfast Club, is dead at age 67 due to mesothelioma.
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In a world where lawyers are generally lower than pond scum, and defense lawyers even worse, the worst of the worst died of a brain tumor in his home and some people, somewhere, for some strange reason, were sad. Not me.
Elsewhere, in a hospital surrounded by a media circus sideshow made up mostly of [...]