This day in history

2013, 2018, 2022.

Monday (October 2), I’ll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. October 7–8, I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest.

#10yrsago Asteroid named after Randall “XKCD” Munroe https://blog.xkcd.com/2013/09/30/asteroid-4942-munroe/

#10yrsago HOWTO make $200,000 off of the above-inflation USPS postage hike https://qz.com/128329/a-step-by-step-guide-to-profiting-off-the-3-cent-hike-on-us-postage-stamps

#10yrsago Talking about Ron Howard’s Haunted Mansion album with the Comedy on Vinyl podcast https://stolendress.com/comedyonvinyl/podcast_episodes/COV_278.mp3

#10yrsago The Big Lie: how polygraph companies convinced the US government to use pseudoscience on job applicants https://www.wired.com/story/inside-polygraph-job-screening-black-mirror/

#5yrsago California bans all-male corporate boards https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/30/business/california-requires-women-board-of-directors/index.html

#5yrsago The history of a Zorklike programming interpreter is a tale of language, art, code and literature http://www.emshort.com/ifmu/inform.html

#5yrsago Brazilian electoral upset possible as fascist loses ground to surging leftist…