This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014, 2019.

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

#20yrsago UK Public Service Publisher: a BBC for everything else? https://web.archive.org/web/20050309032840/https://www.ofcom.org.uk/media_office/latest_news/nr_20041103?a=87101

#20yrsago Pope endorses wanking, screwing https://web.archive.org/web/20060209083158/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/31/wvat31.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/31/ixnewstop.html

#15yrsago Gopher protocol reborn https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/the-web-may-have-won-but-gopher-tunnels-on/

#15yrsago Tell the FCC to say no to Hollywood’s terrible “Selectable Output Control” kill-switch https://web.archive.org/web/20091108001731/https://publicknowledge.org/action/say-no-to-soc

#15yrsago More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing https://web.archive.org/web/20091105223851/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4511/125/

#15yrsago Love of Shopping is Not a Gene: exposing junk science and ideology in Darwinian Psychology https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/04/love-of-shopping-is-not-a-gene-exposing-junk-science-and-ideology-in-darwinian-psychology/

#10yrsago 21K Kansans’ votes will be suppressed this election https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article3504228.html

#10yrsago Pianist wants bad review taking down under EU “right to be forgotten” rules https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/31/pianist-asks-the-washington-post-to-remove-a-concert-review-under-the-e-u-s-right-to-be-forgotten-ruling/

#10yrsago My grandmother, the poisoner https://web.archive.org/web/20141105041851/https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/my-gandma-the-poisoner-0000474-v21n10

#5yrsago White supremacists record video at the new, bulletproof Emmett Till memorial sign https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/03/us/emmett-till-memorial-white-supremacist-group-video/index.html