This day in history

2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Tonight (May 5), I’ll be at the Books, Inc in Mountain View with Mitch Kapor for my novel Red Team Blues; and this weekend (May 6/7), I’ll be in Berkeley at the Bay Area Bookfest.

#15yrsago Nelson Mandela and the ANC are on the US terrorist watchlist and need waivers to enter the country https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-30-watchlist_N.htm

#15yrsago HOWTO make a chili mister https://web.archive.org/web/20130317135539/https://www.instructables.com/id/Spice-Mister/http:/www.instructables.com/id/Spice-Mister/

#15yrsago Homeland Security charter school will train tomorrow’s prison guards https://www.delawareonline.com/story/entertainment/local/2008/06/11/charter-high-school-to-specialize/63954173007/

#10yrsago Ben Laurie on Bitcoin https://www.links.org/files/decentralised-currencies.pdf

#10yrsago Defense Distributed claims working 3D printed handgun https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/03/this-is-the-worlds-first-entirely-3d-printed-gun-photos/

#5yrsago NSA report discloses that the agency tripled its surveillance of Americans in 2017 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance/nsa-collected-500-million-u-s-call-records-in-2017-a-sharp-rise-official-report-idUSKBN1I52FR