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Born On This Day: B.B. King turns 87 today An American songwriter, vocalist, and famed blues guitarist. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No. 6 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. and No. 17 in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. According to Edward M. Komara, King "introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed." King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

In Memoriam: John died 9 years ago today Also known as lilo, was the founder of the freenode IRC network and Executive Director of the PDPC charity that helped fund freenode. A computer programmer since 1968, he worked as an administrator and an applications programmer from 1978 until his death. He worked to encourage the use of IRC for Free Software and Open Source projects. He was one of the founders of the OpenProjects Network (OPN), which grew to become the largest IRC network used by the free software community.

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