This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
Next Wednesday (October 23) at 7PM, I’ll be in Decatur, Georgia, presenting my novel The Bezzle at Eagle Eye Books.
#15yrsago The Magicians: a fantasy novel of wonder without sentimentality https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/19/the-magicians-a-fantasy-novel-of-wonder-without-sentimentality/
#15yrsago My DIY publishing experiment, WITH A LITTLE HELP https://web.archive.org/web/20091022004338/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702526.html
#15yrsago FCC study: open access and competition produce better broadband https://transition.fcc.gov/stage/pdf/Berkman_Center_Broadband_Study_13Oct09.pdf
#10yrsago Why (and how) games are art https://web.archive.org/web/20141015144309/http://herocomplex.latimes.com/comics/cory-doctorow-talks-up-in-real-life-and-wang-feels-down-over-gamergate/#/0
#10yrsago Typewriter-parts cat https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/19/typewriter-parts-cat/
#5yrsago Catalan independence movement declares a general strike in Barcelona https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50098268
#5yrsago AOC to endorse Bernie Sanders today https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bernie-sanders-scored-a-coup-and-won-the-backing-of-ocasio-cortez-and-omar/2019/10/16/53beca18-f020-11e9-8693-f487e46784aa_story.html
#1yrago Uncle Sam paid to develop a cancer drug and now one guy will get to charge whatever he wants for it https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/19/solid-tumors/#t-cell-receptors