http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin
http://digibarn.com/friends/jef-raskin/index.html
The man responsible for our addiction and high standards for ease-of-use (in my opinion) has died of cancer.
May his after-life be as user-friendly as he wanted our lives to be.
I put up a little obit at MLAgazine:
Jef Raskin, Creator of Macintosh 1943-2005
One of the original mac guys kicked off this morning too. Can't remember his name now.