Jef Raskin dies

Ted Roche passes on the news from Dave Winer than Jef Raskin, one of the visionaries behind the Macintosh (and the one who gave it its name), has died.

Update: For more details about Raskin’s work with the Mac, check out Folklore.org.

Posted by Garrett on February 27th, 2005 in Uncategorized | No Comments

Putin on free press

Nice shot, Vladimir.

But when Bush talked about the Kremlin’s crackdown on the media and explained that democracies require a free press, the Russian leader gave a rebuttal that left the President nonplussed. If the press was so free in the U.S., Putin asked, then why had those reporters at CBS lost their jobs?

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