This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014.

I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me CHICAGO (Apr 17), Torino (Apr 21) Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

#20yrsago Why national ID cards make us less safe https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2004/04/a_national_id_card_w.html

#15yrsago Amazon explains cataloging error that banished queer books to “adult” purgatory https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/technology-blog/story/2009-04-13/amazon-begins-to-re-rank-affected-adult-books-theories-swirl

#15yrsago Texas lawmaker: Chinese Americans should change names so “Americans” can handle them https://web.archive.org/web/20090410142836/https://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/brown-asian-names/

#15yrsago John McDaid’s “(Nothing But) Flowers”, sweet and haunting sf story https://web.archive.org/web/20090414052546/http://www.torvex.com/jmcdaid/node/984

#15yrsago Terrible anti-piracy ads from the past 15 years https://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/2009/apr/08/piracy-piracy

#10yrsago Study: American policy exclusively reflects desires of the rich; citizens’ groups largely irrelevant https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

#10yrsago HOWTO buy your way out of a California speeding ticket https://priceonomics.com/can-you-buy-a-license-to-speed/

#10yrsago Japanese game-show asks celebs to eat household objects that may or may not be chocolates https://kotaku.com/can-you-tell-whats-chocolate-and-what-isnt-asks-japa-1496174116