This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#15yrsago Yes Men crash oil expo, propose turning corpses into fuel https://web.archive.org/web/20140825020106/http://www.wired.com/2007/06/yes_men_strike_/

#15yrsago Record exec to academic: stop criticizing us or I’ll tell your university https://web.archive.org/web/20070617123955/https://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/06/14/an-ifpi-bpi-board-member-writes/

#10yrsago Why the ebook you want isn’t for sale in your country https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/06/13/todays-interesting-bit-of-trivia/#comment-334883

#10yrsago DRM in the projector booth — destroying the village to save it https://web.archive.org/web/20120617041810/https://astortheatreblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/what-happened-last-night/

#10yrsago Error Code 451: an HTTP error for censorship https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status-00

#5yrsago Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland’s DODO novel mashes up D&D, time-travel and military bureaucracy https://memex.craphound.com/2017/06/14/neal-stephenson-and-nicole-gallands-dodo-novel-mashes-up-dd-time-travel-and-military-bureaucracy/

#5yrsago Grenfell Tower: just last year, Tory landlord-MPs rejected Labour’s tenant safety law…