Yes kids, it's that time again. Several tipsters have reminded us that Movember has come once more. This is SweetBeard.com, but we can appreciate a good mustache when we see one. Given that the m[o]ustache is in our view the gateway drug into a full blown beard, it needs to be supported. Plus, who wants a busted prostate, am I right? So if you're on the fence about growing a beard, but still want the prostates of the world to be healthy, then grow yourself a mustache for a good cause. Then, grow a beard for yourself.

Sweetbeard is not intended to be a morbid tally of beards past, but on the heels of Ritchie goes McCarthy.

Most well known for Lisp, which is seemingly always tied to A.I. as if it can't do anything else, I prefer to think of him as the father of Dynamic Programming. Where Ritchie provided typed structure, close to the processor, McCarthy was all "hey man, come on down to the party where anything goes. They're called variables for a reason!" And while Lisp probably contains too many parens for any sane person to accept, dynamic typing can be pretty awesome.

You may not be aware of it, but this guy is largely responsible for your ability to read this page. If you do a quick Google Image Search for Dennis Ritchie, you'll have a hard time finding one without a beard. Because there aren't any. Wired has a decent article describing his work, so I won't reinvent that wheel here, but his beard has been largely ignored. For that reason we'd like to dedicate this space to the original UNIX beard.