This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014.

Next weekend (November 8–10), I’ll be in Tucson, AZ: I’m the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention.

#20yrsago Diebold voting machines hacked https://web.archive.org/web/20041102084048/http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78#breaking

#15yrsago Newspaper columnist quits over paywall https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/business/media/02elderly.html?_r=1

#15yrsago Congressional record exposes military officers to identity theft, covers up https://web.archive.org/web/20100506125320/http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/foia/gov.ftc_20081117_from.pdf

#15yrsago Hallowe’en night out as floppy disk and XKCD Cory https://www.flickr.com/photos/24876360@N03/4068253019/in/photostream/

#15yrsago Mechanical computer uses matchboxes and beans to learn Tic-Tac-Toe http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/menace/

#15yrsago Elegy Beach: sequel to Ariel, a sword-and-sorcery post-apocalyptic adventure story about the reinvention of software in the age of magic https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/02/elegy-beach-sequel-to-ariel-a-sword-and-sorcery-post-apocalyptic-adventure-story-about-the-reinvention-of-software-in-the-age-of-magic/

#10yrsago UK cultural institutions leave their WWI cases empty to protest insane copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20141105051638/http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/news/campaign-free-our-history-reform-copyright

#10yrsago FBI secretly seeking legal power to hack any computer, anywhere https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/29/fbi-powers-hacking-computers-surveillance

#10yrsago 42 rich white people account for 1/3 of Super PAC spending https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/whos-buying-midterm-elections-bunch-old-white-guys/

#10yrsago Philadelphia schools have $5/student/year for supplies https://www.salon.com/2014/11/01/we_must_still_hate_our_kids_philadelphia_and_education_reformers_fight_demented_war_on_elementary_schools/

#10yrsago Mechwarrior dad/baby costume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIln1LTtvzc