This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago Kottke on ETCON https://web.archive.org/web/20020603082103/http://www.kottke.org/02/05/index.html

#15yrsago Image-search isn’t a copyright violation (Perfect 10)https://web.archive.org/web/20070519084149/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005259.php

#15yrsago Rudy Rucker, Terry Bisson and me reading/talking in SF https://ia802708.us.archive.org/26/items/SFinSF_Cory_Doctorow_and_Rudy_Rucker/SFinSF_1_Cory_Doctorow_256.mp3

#15yrsago HD-DVD re-cracked six days *before* it is patched https://www.engadget.com/2007-05-17-newest-aacs-circumvented-the-matrix-trilogy-set-free.html

#10yrsago Private-equity driven dentists accused of “dentally abusing” poor kids on Medicaid with painful, unnecessary procedures https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-17/dental-abuse-seen-driven-by-private-equity-investments

#10yrsago People of Burning Man [NSFW] https://memex.craphound.com/2012/05/17/people-of-burning-man-nsfw/

#10yrsago Canada’s warrantless surveillance bill is, improbably, dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120516120311/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/john-ibbitson/how-the-toews-sponsored-internet-surveillance-bill-quietly-died/article2432916/