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Even just repeating his name gives me goosebumps, makes me sad, angry, feeling all together. I don't know, the system I hate so much, because of the ones that've always betrayed people like Aaron.

Such great documentary if you haven't watched already and know about this amazing human being.

His website (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/) is still online if you also want to read what he was thinking and making, before they cornered him, forced him, feared him, took his hope and killed him. I'm so sorry man, rest in peace.

Edit: I sometimes remember him with Tim Berners-Lee's poem:

Aaron is dead.

Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder.

Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own.

Nurtures, careers, listeners, feeders, parents all, we have lost a child.

Let us all weep.



I recently discovered his website and his essays are fantastic-

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/savealife

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/handwritingwall

The last being very poignant for me.




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