This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago Hypercard is back, baby https://www.wired.com/2002/08/hypercard-forgotten-but-not-gone-2/

#15yrsago An anonymous Disney employee vandalized the Wikipedia entry on DRM by removing all mentions of me https://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/08/why-openness-matters-doubly.html

#15yrsago Catalog of Fox News Wikipedia whitewashes https://web.archive.org/web/20071013134521/https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/08/14/fox-news-changes-wikipedia-to-smear-rivals-olbermann-and-franken-comprehensive-list-of-changes

#15yrsago RIAA stiffs former defendant on legal fees https://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/08/riaa-fails-to-pay-attorneys-fee-award.html

#15yrsago DRM as a Potemkin village https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/aug/14/comment.drm

#15yrsago BBC picketed over use of Microsoft DRM https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/iPlayerProtestReport

#15yrsago George Orwell on getting shot https://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/soldiers/george-orwell-shot.html

#10yrsago Civil rights implications of Big Data http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/08/big-data-is-our-generations-civil-rights-issue-and-we-dont-know-it.html