Nerds in Mourning: A friend, father, and founder leaves us
I'm terribly sorry for your loss, and for the enormous shock to Luke's family and friends. My condolences.<p><i>I run the risk of getting flamed for this post.</i><p>This seems to me to be a perfectly appropriate place for a memorial.<p>Apropos of which: Is it inappropriate, in a memorial for a wonderful hacker, to point out that the web is obviously incomplete because it doesn't yet contain an obvious, recognized spot for memorializing wonderful hackers? Or, for that matter, memorializing anyone else?<p>Since I myself would be honored if people spent a portion of my memorial service in a design debate, preferably one fueled by high-quality pizza and beer, I'll go ahead and plant this idea here. May someone wiser than I make it work.<p>An online memorial site is a pretty tough challenge in social media design. It poses big moderation and privacy problems, and it would have to be monetized... delicately. Very delicately, lest the ghost of Jessica Mitford haunt everyone involved.<p><a href="http://www.mitford.org/nytimes.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.mitford.org/nytimes.htm</a>