Object Permanence

2005, 2010, 2015.

I’m about to leave for a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me on Feb 14 for free at Boskone in Boston, and on Feb 15 for a virtual event with Yanis Varoufakis. More tour dates here.

#20yrsago FidoNET Web-interface https://web.archive.org/web/20050213040731/https://heatsink.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_heatsink_archive.html

#20yrsago Witold Rybczynski on Disney’s planned Florida community https://web.archive.org/web/20050212004413/https://slate.msn.com/id/2113107/slideshow/2113258/fs/0//entry/2113259/

#20yrsago 10% of Europeans conceived in an IKEA bed http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4254181.stm

#20yrsago SmartWater’s fatal flaw https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/smart_water.html

#20yrsago Why ecommerce shouldn’t require a password https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/authentication.html

#15yrsago U Georgia official arrested for demanding bribes to make RIAA copyright notices go away https://torrentfreak.com/uga-security-analyst-fired-for-extorting-file-sharer-100210/

#15yrsaog TSA detains Middle-Eastern Studies major for carrying Arabic-English flashcards https://web.archive.org/web/20100214094808/https://progressive.org/mc021010.html

#15yrsago Canadian thinktank withdraws copyright “research” that plagiarised US lobbyists, publishes new balanced recommendations https://web.archive.org/web/20100214200116/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4783/125/

#15yrsago Belarusian clone of “The Big Bang Theory” https://web.archive.org/web/20110429060532/https://thebbtheory.livejournal.com/144727.html

#15yrsago Cheap Chinese appliance imports drive British burglars to switch to iPod muggings https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100209215123.htm

#10yrsago SF Muni spends anti-terror money on fare evaders because it’s a gateway to terrorism https://web.archive.org/web/20150209121233/https://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/former-muni-top-cop-says-fare-evasion-enforcement-is-in-line-with-anti-terrorism-efforts/content/

#10yrsago Security researcher releases 10 million username and password combinations https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/fearing-an-fbi-raid-researcher-publishes-10-million-passwordsusernames/