It's quite unsettling to hear the news of Hunter S Thompson's death, apparently by shooting himself. It's only last Friday that I wrote a short appreciation of him on these pages.

I'm writing this less than half an hour after the news of Hunter S's death hit the wires. Here's the Associated Press report at the Sydney Morning Herald. ESPN.com has linked to an archive page of his work for them over the past three and a half years.

There'll be a lot more to come on the net about the passing of Hunter S Thompson - a modern-day Hemingway who appears to have chosen the same exit.

See Technorati.