This day in history

2001, 2011, 2016, 2020

#20yrsago RIP, Douglas Adams http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1326657.stm

#10yrsago Napier’s Bones: math and mysticism make for great international adventure https://memex.craphound.com/2011/05/12/napiers-bones-math-and-mysticism-make-for-great-international-adventure/

#10yrsago China’s shonky Disneyland-a-like park closed https://thedisneyblog.com/2011/05/13/fake-disney-theme-park-in-china-forced-to-close/

#5yrsago Open letter to from EFF to members of the W3C Advisory Committee https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/open-letter-members-w3c-advisory-committee

#5yrsago Reading With Pictures: awesome, classroom-ready comics for math, social studies, science and language arts https://memex.craphound.com/2016/05/12/reading-with-pictures-awesome-classroom-ready-comics-for-math-social-studies-science-and-language-arts/

#5yrsago Anal fisting site breached: 100K passwords, usernames, email addresses and IPs extracted https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkjj4p/rosebuttboard-ip-board

#5yrsago Chinese state-backed corporations beat US lawsuits with sovereign immunity https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-companies-lawsuits-idUSKCN0Y2131