Object permanence

2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024.

Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.

#20yrsago Sony: DRM cost us the Walkman https://web.archive.org/web/20050121122106/http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&e=1&u=/ap/20050120/ap_on_hi_te/japan_sony

#20yrsago March 29: Supremes hear the Grokster case https://web.archive.org/web/20050105112953/http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_01.php#002221

#20yrsago HOWTO: Get a “free” iTunes song with every Pepsi https://web.archive.org/web/20050107010208/https://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/ipod/index.php#pepsi-itunes-contest-the-tilt-still-works-030740

#15yrsago HOWTO survive a nuclear attack — Mutual of Omaha, 1951 https://copyranter.blogspot.com/2010/01/and-maybe-just-maybe-buy-yourself.html

#15yrsago OK Go explains the screwed-up state of the music industry https://web.archive.org/web/20100120223701/http://okgo.forumsunlimited.com/index.php?showtopic=4169

#10yrsago I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That https://memex.craphound.com/2015/01/20/i-think-youll-find-its-a-bit-more-complicated-than-that/

#10yrsago Life inside a DDOS “booter site” https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/a-hacked-ddos-on-demand-site-offers-a-look-into-mind-of-booter-users/

#10yrsago G+ Kremlinology: estimating the desolation of Google’s social media ghost-town https://web.archive.org/web/20150130125653/https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/nAya9WqdemIoVuVWVOYQUQ

#10yrsago The Knowledge: London cabbies’ multi-year, grueling training https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/t-magazine/london-taxi-test-knowledge.html

#5yrsago Frontier, a terrible company, is going bankrupt https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/frontier-an-isp-in-29-states-plans-to-file-for-bankruptcy/

#5yrsago Bestiality was not socially acceptable in medieval Europe https://going-medieval.com/2020/01/20/no-bestiality-was-never-ok-you-absolute-rabid-weirdo/

#5yrsago Facial recognition isn’t just bad because it invades privacy: it’s because privacy invasions fuel discrimination https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opinion/facial-recognition-ban-privacy.html

#1yrago Brinklump Linkdump https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/20/motley/#i-have-heard-the-mermaids-singing

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