This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

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

#20yrsago Jabberwocky in many languages https://web.archive.org/web/20041209010448/http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~jessica/Jabberwock/

#15yrsago Slow News: designing reflection and contemplation into the news-cycle https://mediactive.com/2009/11/08/toward-a-slow-news-movement/

#15yrsago Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp’s websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals https://www.inquisitr.com/46786/epic-win-news-corp-likely-to-remove-content-from-google

#15yrsago Ebook license “agreements” are a ripoff https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/nov/08/amazon-kindle-licence-orwell

#10yrsago Creative Commons and Aaronsw’s sweet hack https://web.archive.org/web/20141108110122/http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/11/06/how-celebrate-aaron-swartzs-legacy-go-hackathon-weekend

#5yrsago UK spies secretly granted power to spy on journalists and lawyers https://web.archive.org/web/20141107223052/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/06/uk-surveillance-of-lawyers-journalists-gchq/

#1yrago Biden wants to ban ripoff “financial advisors” https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/08/fiduciaries/#but-muh-freedumbs