On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Arthur Pemberton [email protected] wrote:

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Phil Thayer [email protected] wrote:

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23697230/

Someone who inspired me to get into computers when I was a kid. :(...

This really touched me: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/video-arthur-c.html

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Sir Arthur's story "Imperial Earth" also contains the User Interface guidelines for both pocket computers and Net terminals. Those chapter extracts describing those items should be mandatory reading for UI designers.

I teased my wife last night that a fitting tribute would be a full minute shutdown of all Geosynch orbit comsats. Then I came up with the more fitting tribute that we all should make sure his books are in current edition in our school libraries. And we have to research whether he used Linux.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:51 AM, David Nicol [email protected] wrote:

I wonder how many people marked Heinlein's passing by sleeping on waterbeds.

"Sleeping"? Maybe not so many.