This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Today (Oct 16), I’m in Minneapolis to give the keynote at the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Thursday (Oct 19), I’m in Charleston, WV to give the 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities. And on Friday (Oct 20), I’m at Charleston’s Taylor Books from 12h-14h.

#20yrsago Identity thief steals sex-offender’s name https://web.archive.org/web/20031002192428/http://www.sexcriminals.com/news/15382/

#15yrsago Librivox free audiobook library now has 365 days’ worth of continuous listening material https://librivox.org/2008/10/15/365-days-of-librivox-audio/

#15yrsago Canada elects 34 copyfighters to Parliament https://web.archive.org/web/20081018165923/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3450/125/

#15yrsago BART directors to management: stop using terrorism “fearmongering” https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bart-debates-allowing-drinks-on-trains-3266010.php

#15yrsago Wedding Ring Cipher contest winners https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/15/wedding-ring-cipher-contest-winners/

#10yrsago South London school bans “slang” https://memex.craphound.com/2013/10/15/south-london-school-bans-slang/