2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. — #20yrsago Themepark queues and traffic-shaping https://web.archive.org/web/20020713135906/https://slate.msn.com/?id=2067672 #20yrsago Parasitic computing proof uses JavaScript to compel computation https://web.archive.org/web/20031203033332/https://netninja.com/papers/pdc/pdc.txt #15yrsago Me on CBC, talking Universal v. iTunes https://web.archive.org/web/20070729115503/http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/qpodcast_20070704_2752.mp3

2002, 2012, 2017. — #20yrsago What is Palladium? What is the area of a Moebius Strip? https://web.archive.org/web/20020903152133/http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/2002-07-03.html #10yrsago Charles Carreon: “Mission accomplished” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/carreon-claims-victory-drops-his-lawsuit-against-the-oatmeal-et-al/ #10yrsago Chinese-built ghost town in Angola — the first of many to come? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-18646243

A half-to-three-quarters-baked idea to fix capitalism. — America has a monopoly problem. The list of heavily concentrated industries grows longer by the day, even as the number of companies operating in each sector shrinks: pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical benefit managers, health insurance, appliances, athletic shoes, books, alcohol, drug stores, office supplies, eyeglasses, TV ads, internet ads, internet search, semiconductors…

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. — #15yrsago RIP, Fred Saberhagen http://www.locusmag.com/2007/2007NewsArchive.html #15yrsago Lewis Shiner’s short fiction online for free https://www.lewisshiner.com/liberation/manifesto.html #10yrsago Team Human: a high-school vampire novel doesn’t suck (it rocks) https://memex.craphound.com/2012/07/03/team-human-a-high-school-vampire-novel-doesnt-suck-it-rocks/ #10yrsago Karl Marx on a MasterCard https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/06/15/155106232/the-karl-marx-mastercard-is-here-it-needs-a-tagline…

2002, 2012, 2021. — #20yrsago Janis Ian vs the RIAA https://web.archive.org/web/20020802085517/https://janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html #10yrsago Chuck D’s rules for the music business https://craphound.com/images/ChuckDsRulesfortheMusicBusiness.png #10yrsago EFF weighs in on Charles Carreon’s latest dumb stunt https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/07/bears-still-good-cancer-still-bad-also-bad-trying-punish-critic-preventing-him

Broken telephone, but for back-orders. — There’s a school of economics that likens the economy to a computer, one that we all power. Every time we buy something — or walk away from an offer — we feed data to the computer, which transmits this price- and demand-information from consumers to producers to financiers, so that…

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. — #15yrsago Universal threatens to drop iTunes Store contract https://memex.craphound.com/2007/07/01/universal-threatens-to-drop-itunes-store-contract/ #15yrsago Let a million top-level domains bloom https://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2007/07/01/aging_the_internet_prematurely_one_pdp_at_a_time.html #10yrsago UK immigration test to focus on Shakespeare and Christianity instead of human rights and civics https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-18662531

“Without admitting any wrongdoing.” — McKinsey is a global “consulting” giant, with its tendrils in every unsavory industry from private ICE gulags to (mis)managing violent prisons to publicly funded private charter schools. Internally, McKinsey promotes itself as akin to the Jesuits and the Marines (no, really): “analytically rigorous, deeply principled seekers of knowledge and truth.” …

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. — #20yrsago Rob Flickenger on community wifi https://web.archive.org/web/20020805004629/http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=28138,00.asp #20yrsago Hollywood asks Congress for Letters of Marque https://memex.craphound.com/2002/06/30/hollywood-asks-congress-for-letters-of-marque/ #15yrsago Google to HMOs: pay us and we’ll bury “Sicko” https://google-health-ads.blogspot.com/2007/06/does-negative-press-make-you-sicko.html