This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.

#20yrsago Danny Goodman’s secret history of Hypercard https://web.archive.org/web/20010917050014/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/08/17/goodman.html

#15yrsago Federal court bans Bush’s warrantless spying on Americans https://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/17/domesticspying.lawsuit/index.html

#10yrsago CCTV deterrence and the London riots https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/aug/17/why-cctv-does-not-deter-crime

#10yrsago Cookie Monster performs Tom Waits’s “God’s Away on Business” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5X4N2exOsU

#10yrsago Homeopathy multinational sues blogger over statements that its mythological curative had “no active ingredient” https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/homeopathic-thuggery/

#10yrsago Criticism of a brand lowers the self-esteem of its adherents https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S105774081100057X

#5yrsago Neil Gaiman’s nonfiction: what makes everything so great https://memex.craphound.com/2016/08/17/neil-gaimans-nonfiction-what-makes-everything-so-great/

#5yrsago Europe’s banks want to store billions in cash to fight back against negative interest…