In Memoriam
Chris Lightfoot, 1978-2007.
Chris was splendid, and one of the few bloggers whose contributions to the world stretched far beyond blogging. (Some details over here.)
Two trivial details: he’s the only person I’ve ever successfully identified in a pub, having only seen their South Park version of themselves ahead of time; and he will always be remembered at the Virtual Stoa for writing the code that powered the Melanie Phillips Naziometer, which used to adorn the sidebar.
[...] I’m very sorry to see, via “the Virtual Stoa”http://virtualstoa.net/2007/03/05/in-memoriam/ , that Chris Lightfoot , blogger, coder and social entrepreneur has died suddenly . My own knowledge of Chris was limited to reading his blog, exchanging the odd email, and sometimes visiting the various projects he helped create (such as Pledgebank ). But I read enough to notice that he was one of the few really individual voices on the interwebs: quirky, stubborn, idiosyncratic and pretty determined about the things he cared about – such as government and commercial threats to privacy. posted on Monday, March 5th, 2007 at 4:53 pm Post a comment [...]
↓ Quote | Posted 5 March, 2007, 4:53 pmAnd I’ll just add, that this is fucking awful.
↓ Quote | Posted 5 March, 2007, 4:55 pmI’ve salvaged the nazi-o-meter – it should be at the old address once the DNS gets its act together. Meanwhile you might like to look at the southpark chris we did at the same time for him which we thought was more approriate:
http://www.panaceas.org/oggie.gif
– James.
↓ Quote | Posted 8 March, 2007, 3:02 pm