Gary Gygax was, perhaps more than any other single individual, responsible for inventing the role-playing game and Dungeons & Dragons specifically. He failed his last saving throw three years ago, to the lament of the gaming community. Now there's a project to build a grand monument to his life and work. The government of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where Gygax reigned, is granting space in a public park for this purpose:

The Gygax Memorial Fund has reached a huge milestone. We have been granted land for the memorial site at Donian Park. Donian Park is a four acre open space site which encompasses a wetland and the 100 year recurrence interval floodplain along the White River in downtown Lake Geneva.

One Boing Boing commenter has put it best: "He will be critically missed. We should all observe a moment of silent (10' radius)." Link -via Boing Boing | Photo: Wikimedia Commons