This day in history
2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
#20yrsago Advertising techniques that Web-users hate https://www.nngroup.com/articles/most-hated-advertising-techniques/
#20yrsago Haunted Mansion’s cobwebbing-and-griming regimen https://web.archive.org/web/20041216114700/http://disney.go.com/inside/issues/stories/v041214.html
#15yrsago Danish police abuse climate-change demonstrators https://web.archive.org/web/20091215061955/https://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/12/13/crackdown-in-copenhagen/
#15yrsago Three strikes law reintroduced in New Zealand https://memex.craphound.com/2009/12/15/three-strikes-law-reintroduced-in-new-zealand/
#15yrsago SFPD won’t investigate hit-and-run car-v-bike accident https://web.archive.org/web/20091220112602/https://jwz.livejournal.com/1139721.html
#15yrsago Comical legal case names https://kevinunderhill.typepad.com/lowering_the_bar/comical_case_names.html
#10yrsago Photographer beaten, detained in London for being “cocky” to policeman who implies she is a terrorist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAs4gZY1bro
#10yrsago HOWTO: Make glue-gun sticks out of sugar for building gingerbread houses https://memex.craphound.com/2014/12/15/howto-make-glue-gun-sticks-out-of-sugar-for-building-gingerbread-houses/
#10yrsago New York City’s worst landlords https://web.archive.org/web/20141216015548/https://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/12/the_ten_worst_new_york_city_landlords_of_2014.php
#10yrsago Macedonia helped CIA kidnap and torture a German they mistook for a terrorist https://www.thelocal.de/20141210/cia-tortured-german-mistaken-for-terrorist
#10yrsago Why it matters whether or not torture works https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/12/the-humane-interrogation-technique-that-works-much-better-than-torture/383698/
#5yrsago Spain’s Xnet: leak-publishing corruption-fighters https://www.smh.com.au/world/spains-wikileaksinspired-xnet-peaceful-guerrilla-movement-fights-graft-using-technology-courts-20141213-126e1d.html
#5yrsago DRM screws blind people https://www.wired.com/2014/12/e-books-for-the-blind-should-be-legal/
#1yrago It all started with a mouse https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/15/mouse-liberation-front/#free-mickey
