This day in history

2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

#15yrsago RIAA’s lawsuit against homeless man not going entirely smoothly https://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/04/riaa-sues-homeless-man-makes-sewer.html

#15yrsago China Shakes the World — book captures the grand sweep of changes in the most populous nation on Earth https://memex.craphound.com/2008/04/18/china-shakes-the-world-book-captures-the-grand-sweep-of-changes-in-the-most-populous-nation-on-earth/

#10yrsago Internet penetration is never correlated with increasing power to dictators, and is often correlated with increased freedom https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2013/04/18/are-there-countries-whose-situations-worsened-with-the-arrival-of-the-internet/

#10yrsago NZ parliament erupts in song after passing marriage equality bill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW4DXOAXF8U

#10yrsago Austerity economics only works if you make an Excel formula error https://web.archive.org/web/20130418125353/http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/31e2ff374b6377b2ddec04deaa6388b1/publication/566/

#10yrsago Book multi-city itineraries as one-ways and save https://www.techdirt.com/2013/04/17/flight-search-engines-multi-city-ripoff/

#5yrsago In 1968, the Supreme Court gutted the Fourth Amendment, certain that it would all work out…