This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.

Tomorrow (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.

#20yrsago Extended iCal rant from a timezone warrior https://memex.craphound.com/2003/10/30/extended-ical-rant-from-a-timezone-warrior/

#15yrsago Headlong: laser-fine YA novel about kids’ friendships and escaping destiny from Kathe Koja https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/30/headlong-laser-fine-ya-novel-about-kids-friendships-and-escaping-destiny-from-kathe-koja/

#10yrsago Statistics Done Wrong: a guide to spotting and avoiding stats errors https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com

#10yrsago David Cameron threatens injunction against the Guardian to stop further Snowden leak publications https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/david-cameron-nsa-threat-newspapers-guardian-snowden

#5yrsago Consumer Reports finds that D-Link’s home camera sends unencrypted video without unique passwords https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/d-link-camera-poses-data-security-risk-consumer-reports-finds-a8814384448/

#5yrsago Is this the full list of US cities that have bought or considered Predpol’s predictive policing services? https://memex.craphound.com/2018/10/30/is-this-the-full-list-of-us-cities-that-have-bought-or-considered-predpols-predictive-policing-services/

#5yrsago Trump FCC official publicly lying about censorship on municipal broadband https://www.vice.com/en/article/bj49j8/fcc-falsely-claims-community-broadband-an-ominous-threat-to-the-first-amendment

#5yrsago Bram Stoker’s reference materials for Dracula discovered at the London Library https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/dracula

#5yrsago As Wisconsin’s corporate welfare to Foxconn keeps rising, the number of jobs to be created keeps falling https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/29/18027032/foxconn-wisconsin-plant-jobs-deal-subsidy-governor-scott-walker