Electronic music pioneer Robert A. Moog died today (Monday August 22, 2005) at the age of 71 (see NY Times, BBC, and others).
Among many other things, Moog was a contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica, contributing to the electronic instrument and musical instrument articles, as well as earning some coverage in his own right.
Rest in peace.
Over at the Gordon’s Tech blog, John has posted something of a left-handed compliment for Britannica:
Next thing you know the freight trains will sprout rocket engines. Britannica gets sexy (in a geekish sort of way) with widgets and firefox search plugins. I guess I’ll have to reenable Dashboard on my iMac.
The amazing thing, however, is that their new RSS feed has over 150 bloglines subscribers. Wow.
I’d mostly forgotten I pay Britannica each month for their service. It’s kind of been a charitable act. Maybe they’re actually thinking about how they could be useful. Or maybe Google has agreed to buy them …
See Encyclopædia Britannica Online Tools for the “sexy” tools to which he refers.
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