This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014, 2019.

#20yrsago Donate to EFF, send a lump of coal to MPAA and RIAA https://web.archive.org/web/20041218015602/http://www.downhillbattle.org/coal/

#20yrsago 65MB of vintage random numbers from 1965 https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418.html

#15yrsago Spite Houses, built to piss off the neighbors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spite_house#

#15yrsago Bug powder causes male bedbugs to stab each other to death with their penises https://www.medindia.net/news/bedbugs-may-be-on-way-out-with-new-discovery-62273-1.htm

#15yrsago Installing Windows considered as a literary genre https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012008.html#012008

#15yrsago Montage of magic “photo enhancement” in cop shows and movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk

#10yrsago No charges for Japanese man who dumped a quarter-ton of porn in a park https://web.archive.org/web/20141225092617/https://www.afp.com/en/node/2965441/

#10yrsago The strange history of Disney’s cyber-psychedelic “Computers Are People Too” https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-disney-was-hustled-into-making-the-trippiest-movie-about-computers-ever/

#10yrsago HOWTO cut paper snowflakes in the likeness of Nobel physics prizewinners https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2014/deck-the-halls-with-nobel-physicists

#5yrsago Insulin prices doubled between 2012 and 2016 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/12/09/insulin-prices-double-ohio-lawmakers-looking-answers/2629115001/

#5yrsago Sloppy security mistakes in smart conferencing gear allows hackers to spy on board rooms, steal presentations https://www.wired.com/story/dten-video-conferencing-vulnerabilities/

#5yrsago Bernie Sanders is the only leading Democrat who hasn’t taken money from billionaires https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-knocks-rivals-for-taking-donations-from-billionaires/

#5yrsago Privacy activists spent a day on Capitol Hill scanning faces to prove that scanning faces should be banned https://fightfortheftr.medium.com/we-scanned-thousands-of-faces-in-dc-today-to-show-why-facial-recognition-surveillance-should-be-3360958a76f1

#5yrsago Foxconn wants Wisconsin to keep paying it billions, but it won’t disclose what kind of factory it will build https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/13/21020885/foxconn-wisconsin-deal-renegotiate-tax-subsidy-lcd-factory-plant

#5yrsago Citing the Panama Papers, Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping anti-financial secrecy rules https://medium.com/@teamwarren/my-plan-to-fight-global-financial-corruption-b66492583129