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mosel-saar-ruwer writes:
Ed Benedict, the legendary Hanna-Barbera animator who created the look of Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, and a host of other characters & their environs, has died at the age of 94. There is a nice profile of his work at Amid Amidi's Cartoon Modern blog, as well as in the hardcover book of the same name. Likewise, there are some excellent examples of 70 and 80 year old Benedicts in Animation Blast, Issue 8. Finally, there's a Streaming Media interview with Ed, from way back in 2001, at the tender young age of 89, wherein he expressed his disdain for computers and new-school animation.
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mosel-saar-ruwer writes:
After ten years, the Bletchley Park Trust yesterday unveiled a reconstruction of Alan Turing & Gordon Welchman's 'Bombe', which defeated the Enigma Code. Approximately 200 of these machines were built by the British Tabulating Machine Company, of Letchworth, Herts, but the project was deemed so secret that, after the war, these machines were destroyed, and survived thereafter only in blueprints, a few photographs, and the memories of the progenitorial Hax0rs & Crax0rs who operated them. Details of the unveiling ceremony can be found in numerous stories in the British press — The BBC, The Times, The Scotsman — but The Telegraph ran with a particularly fetching picture of Jean Valentine, and of course there are further pictures on the newswire. The team of reconstructors was led by John Howard, and he has many detailed pictures of the mechanical parts on his website [which, I trust, is about to experience a big slashdotting].
