Object permanence

2005, 2010, 2105, 2020, 2024.

I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me at PITTSBURGH’S White Whale Books on May 15 and in PDX at Barnes and Noble with BUNNIE HUANG on June 20. More tour stops (London, Manchester) here.

#20yrsago V-TV DAY: WE WON THE BROADCAST FLAG FIGHT! https://memex.craphound.com/2005/05/06/v-tv-day-we-won-the-broadcast-flag-fight/

#20yrsago Google Accelerator is bad news for Web apps https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/google_web_accelerator_hey_not_so_fast_an_alert_for_web_app_designers

#15yrsago UNESCO’s bizarre World Anti-Piracy Observatory https://web.archive.org/web/20100308001509/http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=39055&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

#15yrsago Naked scanner reveals airport screener’s tiny penis, sparks steel baton fight with fellow officers https://www.staugustine.com/story/news/nation-world/2010/05/08/airport-screener-charged-attack-over-daily-jokes/16232427007/

#15yrsago India’s e-voting machines vulnerable to fraud https://indiaevm.org

#15yrsago Roy Lichtenstein’s estate claims copyright over the images he appropriated https://web.archive.org/web/20100509220603/http://www.elsinoremusic.net/

#10yrsago Mass protests, brutal crackdown in Macedonia https://balkaninsight.com/2015/05/06/macedonia-police-quells-anti-government-protest/

#10yrsago Which UK MPs rebel against the party, and with whom do they ally? https://vartree.blogspot.com/2015/05/vizualizing-rebel-alliances-in-uk.html

#10yrsago Legal threat against security researcher claims he violated lock’s copyright https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/lawyers-threaten-researcher-over-key-cloning-bug-in-high-security-lock/

#10yrsago Talent, practice and doing the hard stuff https://locusmag.com/2015/05/cory-doctorow-shorter/

#5yrsago Ohio’s got snitchline for bosses whose workers who won’t go back https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/06/moloch-demands-death/#life-or-death

#5yrsago Appeals court says Miami jail doesn’t need to provide soap https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/06/moloch-demands-death/#death-sentence

#5yrsago Scarfolk death statistics https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/06/moloch-demands-death/#scarfolk

#5yrsago Sacrifice banks to save businesses https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/06/moloch-demands-death/#no-choice

#5yrsago America’s corporate lobbyists want a bailout https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/06/moloch-demands-death/#human-centipede

#1yrago Amazon illegally interferes with an historic UK warehouse election https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/06/one-click-to-quit-the-union/#foxglove