This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

Berliners: Otherland has added a second date (Jan 28) for my book-talk after the first one sold out — book now!

#20yrsago Protect your investment: buy open https://memex.craphound.com/2004/01/27/protect-your-investment-buy-open/

#20yrsago True confessions from the DeCSS Haiku author http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/haiku.html

#15yrsago What’s going on in Bush’s mind here? https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/

#10yrsago Bad for You: Exposing the War on Fun! https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/27/bad-for-you-exposing-the-war-on-fun/

#10yrsago HSBC settlement approved: no criminal charges, 5 weeks’ profit in fines, deferred bonuses for laundering billions for narco-terrorists https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-moneylaundering-exclusive-idUSBREA0G1KQ20140117/

#10yrsago Candy Quest: a text-adventure in defiance of the stupid Candy Crush trademark https://smestorp.itch.io/candy-quest-3-edge-of-sweetness

#10yrsago Bletchley Park’s new management chucks out long-term volunteers https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/27/bletchley-parks-new-management-chucks-out-long-term-volunteers/

#10yrsago Lovecraftian rant about the horrors of Blackboard https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2014/01/christ-i-hate-blackboard

#5yrsago The rent is too damned high because money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money https://twitter.com/CZEdwards/status/1089340995731304450

#1yrago Podcasts are hearteningly enshittification resistant https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/27/enshittification-resistance/#ummauerter-garten-nein

I’m Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by Wil Wheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.