Friday Dead Link
The Baltimore City Paper has published its annual review of the lesser-known cultural figures who died this past year. 2005's annals of the departed include science-fiction novelist Andre Norton, sound collagist Luc Ferrari, valium inventor Leo Sternbach, and the obscure R&B singer Lyn Collins, who has been immortalized—thanks to one popular hip hop sample—by "a fraction of a fraction of her life's work."