This day in history

2006, 2011

#10yrsago Unauthorized designs for a line of 1971 Walt Disney World merchandise https://disneydesignerland.blogspot.com/

#10yrsago $10,000,000 in venture capital for grilled-cheese sandwich “platform” https://venturebeat.com/2011/06/01/the-melt-flip-sequoia/

#5yrsago Defense lawyers: the FBI made us use a copy-shop that made secret copies for the government https://www.floridabulldog.org/2016/06/u-s-attorneys-office-fbi-accused-of-spying-on-defense-in-fraud-case/

#5yrsago Canada Post drops legal claim over crowdsourced postal code database https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2016/06/crowdsourcedpostalcodelawsuit/

#5yrsago Neil Gaiman on Douglas Adams https://www.vice.com/en/article/ezppke/remembering-douglas-adams-neil-gaiman-the-view-from-the-cheap-seats

#5yrsago Flintnation: 33 US cities caught cheating on municipal water lead tests https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/02/lead-water-testing-cheats-chicago-boston-philadelphia

#1yrago Why protests become violent https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/03/white-nationalist-pogrom/#evidence

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