This day in history
2004, 2009, 2014.
On July 14, I’m giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY. On July 20, I’m appearing at Chicago’s Exile in Bookville.
#20yrsgo Flickr adds Creative Commons licenses https://web.archive.org/web/20091226143532/http://blog.flickr.net/en/2004/06/29/creative-commons/
#20yrsago Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom wins Locus Award https://memex.craphound.com/2004/06/29/down-and-out-wins-locus-award/
#20yrsago Fast Company’s new linking policy still broken https://memex.craphound.com/2004/06/29/fast-companys-new-linking-policy-still-broken/
#20yrsago Bayesian spam rumination: when word-frequency-histograms attack! https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2004/06/29/victims-spam-filtering/
#15yrsago Pirate Bay to sell to private company, go legit (?) (!) https://techcrunch.com/2009/06/30/swedish-software-firm-acquires-the-pirate-bay-for-77-million/
#15yrsago Gold farming, real money trades banned in China https://web.archive.org/web/20090706063914/http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/ebusiness/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218101859
#15yrsago 13 year old kid reviews a 30 year old Sony Walkman https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8117619.stm
#15yrsago Little Brother wins the Campbell Award — see you in Lawrence, KS on July 11/12! https://web.archive.org/web/20090703190435/https://www.news.ku.edu/2009/june/29/sciencefiction.shtml
#10yrsago Internet’s Own Boy, free CC-licensed download on Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz
#10yrsago Black ASU prof beaten by campus cops without provocation, charged with assault https://newsone.com/3028140/ersula-ore-arizona-state-university/
#10yrsago Stupid Congress: 20 years of GOP war on congressional competence https://washingtonmonthly.com/2014/06/09/the-big-lobotomy/
