This day in history

2008, 2013, 2018.

Today (Oct 19), I’m in Charleston, WV to give the 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities. Tomorrow (Oct 20), I’m at Charleston’s Taylor Books from 12h-14h.

#15yrsago You’ll need a passport to buy a mobile phone in the UK https://web.archive.org/web/20081121071114/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4969312.ece

#15yrsago Photos of facepalming financiers https://web.archive.org/web/20081011031721/http://brokershandsontheirfacesblog.tumblr.com/

#10yrsago Venn diagram of anticonventional objects https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/64469207921/prettier-versions-of-an-earlier-sketch-of-mine

#10yrsago Snowden’s CIA career taught him that going through channels achieved nothing https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/world/snowden-says-he-took-no-secret-files-to-russia.html

#5yrsago RIP, Little Free Library founder Todd H. Bol https://www.startribune.com/after-cancer-diagnosis-little-free-library-founder-todd-bol-feels-like-most-successful-person-i-know/497826391/

#5yrsago Apple’s new parental control: Daily Stormer is in, sex-ed is out https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xj3bx/new-iphone-parental-controls-block-searches-for-sex-education