William J. Polley

Your government at work again.  Remember, they only want to protect you.  That attorneys and CPAs should benefit from this at the expense of others is simply coincidence.

Yeah, right.

(Via Craig Newmark)

NY Times obituary

I have a copy of his classic The Fractal Geometry of Nature, and I have his autograph from the 1990 Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus.  His work was not universally accepted and still remains somewhat on the fringes.  Yet it captured my imagination as a high school kid with a computer.

And it still does.