This day in history
2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024.
Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.
#20yrsago Sheet-music for Super Mario https://web.archive.org/web/20050112012306/https://gprime.net/images/mariopiano/
#20yrsago Jailed for a Song: Human-readable copyfight explanation https://web.archive.org/web/20050121142031/http://www.jailedforasong.com/
#20yrsago Free beer that’s free as in speech https://web.archive.org/web/20050121093653/http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70
#20yrsago IBM turning 500 patents over for free implementation https://web.archive.org/web/20100505080603/http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050110235654673
#20yrsago Fundie denounces sf for atheism, nudism https://web.archive.org/web/20100111034704/https://www.wayoflife.org/files/2fd19aa02a25c87c4946a653a20f1344-486.html
#15yrsago Bruce Schneier’s TSA logo redesign contest https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/tsa_logo_contes.html
#15yrsago Secret London: guide to the weird and wonderful secrets of London-town https://memex.craphound.com/2010/01/11/secret-london-guide-to-the-weird-and-wonderful-secrets-of-london-town/
#5yrsago William Gibson talks about scrapping and rewriting a novel after the 2016 Trump election https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/11/william-gibson-i-was-losing-a-sense-of-how-weird-the-real-world-was
#5yrsago Departing Kotaku writers post a farewell message to their private equity asshole boss: “Sup dude. Suck it.” https://kotaku.com/goodbye-from-josh-and-gita-1840936478
#5yrsago America’s most popular governor: the lavishly corrupt Larry Hogan [R-MD] https://newrepublic.com/article/156183/popular-crook-america
#1yrago The real AI automation threat to workers https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no
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