This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017.

#15yrsago Wal-Mart’s total area larger than Manhattan’s https://web.archive.org/web/20071011015943/http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/007/trans007storespace.html

#10yrsago Australian PM lances a sexist boil in Parliament https://www.themarysue.com/australian-prime-minsiter-julia-gillards-epic-verbal-takedown-of-misogynist-politician-video/

#10yrsago Billionaire timeshare CEO to employees: there’ll be fewer jobs around here if Obama is re-elected https://web.archive.org/web/20121010212503/http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/10/09/978211/david-siegel-fire-employees/?mobile=wp

#10yrsago New York Five: beautifully told coming-of-age comic from Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly https://memex.craphound.com/2012/10/10/new-york-five-beautifully-told-coming-of-age-comic-from-brian-wood-and-ryan-kelly/

#5yrsago An obscure copyright law is letting the Internet Archive distribute books published 1923–1941 https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/

#5yrsago Reimplementing an Apple ][+ on an FPGA https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/apple2fpga/

#5yrsago Equifax will give your salary history to anyone with your SSN and date of birth https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/equifax-breach-fallout-your-salary-history/