R.I.P. Ruth Robinson Duccini, the last surviving female Munchkin

The Los Angeles Times reports that Ruth Robinson Duccini, the last surviving female Munchkin from The Wizard Of Oz, has died at the age of 95. Duccini appeared in the 1939 film as part of a 124-strong troupe of diminutive actors, though she had no lines and received no official credit. But in the years since, as that group inevitably dwindled, Duccini became one of the last living links to the beloved movie, and she was often called upon to turn up at Oz promotional events like the one in 2007, when she appeared alongside her fellow surviving Munchkins to receive their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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The PC’s Death Might Also Mean the Web’s Demise

As app-happy mobile devices become the primary way we compute, the good old browser becomes irrelevant. The hyperlinked, free-flowing, egalitarian, and ubiquitous world wide web will fade away. Instead, digital existence will mostly transpire within the more self-contained domains of individual apps, which offer their creators the flexibility and power of building right into the mobile operating systems. We will still have the internet, but it won’t be the same wherever you use it.

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