This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

This weekend (November 8–10), I’ll be in Tucson, AZ: I’m the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention.

#20yrsago Brands aren’t worth as much as we thought https://web.archive.org/web/20041107050607/https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/brands_pr.html

#15yrsago EU kills 3-strikes proposal (yay!) but all is not well (eek!) https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2009/11/05/Europe-only-goes-half-way-in-protecting-internet-rights/

#15yrsago The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook: inspirational kids’ science comic https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/05/the-secret-science-alliance-and-the-copycat-crook-inspirational-kids-science-comic/

#10yrsago EFF leadership change: Cindy Cohn to head organization https://www.eff.org/press/releases/cindy-cohn-become-effs-new-executive-director-2015

#10yrsago 1980 D&D ad asserts that RPGs are woman-friendly https://twitter.com/JonBolds/status/518044059240124417

#10yrsago Chip-and-PIN cards let nearby fraudsters steal $1M at a time https://www.wired.com/2014/11/chip-n-pin-foreign-currency-vulnerability/

#5yrsago After decades of corporate theft, Spinal Tap is finally getting paid by Universal https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/spinal-tap-universal-music-settle-copyright-dispute-1203393300/

#5yrsago Jeannette Ng was right: John W Campbell was a fascist https://locusmag.com/2019/11/cory-doctorow-jeannette-ng-was-right-john-w-campbell-was-a-fascist/

#5yrsago “Christian” hospital charges its own nurse $900,000 for her premature baby https://www.propublica.org/article/how-one-employer-stuck-a-new-mom-with-a-bill-for-her-premature-baby#170012

#5yrsago When the company that made your prosthetic feet won’t repair them https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/05/when-the-company-that-made-your-prosthetic-feet-wont-repair-them/

#5yrsago The Porch of Doom: a Halloween haunt that sends visitors to a billionaires’ Mars where they are expected to do all the dirty work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpfVhfty_4I

#5yrsago The inspiring story of how Cloudflare defeated a patent troll and broke the patent-trolling business-model https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloudflare-stood-up-to-a-patent-troll-and-won/

#5yrsago Lynda Barry’s “Making Comics” is one of the best, most practical books ever written about creativity https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/05/lynda-barrys-making-comics-is-one-of-the-best-most-practical-books-ever-written-about-creativity/

#1yrago A link-clump demands a linkdump https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/05/variegated/#nein