Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Bassel Khartabil
Born: May 22, 1981
Died: October 3, 2015 (aged 34)
Bio: Bassel Khartabil, also known as Bassel Safadi, was a Palestinian Syrian open-source software developer. From March 15, 2012, the one-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising, he was detained by the Syrian government at Adra Prison in Damascus.