This day in history
2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.
#20yrsago Hack your Xbox, get illegally converged https://web.archive.org/web/20040204193548/http://news.com.com/2009-1043-5113192.html
#20yrsago JWZ on RFID credit cards https://www.jwz.org/blog/2003/12/more-rfid-stupidity-on-the-horizon/
#20yrsago Flocking CGI orcs are too smart to stand and fight https://forums.cgsociety.org/t/smart-soldiers-decided-to-flee-the-rings-battle-article-about-lotr-massive/730366
#20yrsago Sf story about Saddam’s Frazetta-dealer http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/script_doctoring_apocalypse.html
#15yrsago Australian court rules that Facebook “Wall” scribbles are legal notice https://www.smh.com.au/technology/lawyers-to-serve-notices-on-facebook-20081216-gdt6su.html
#15yrsago Send your old shoes to Dubya’s Liberry https://web.archive.org/web/20081217060336/https://fightingliberals.com/2008/12/old-shoes-update.html
#15yrsago Expert responds to Brit politico who swore to make more copyright despite admitted facts https://www.ft.com/content/ba280756-ca07-11dd-93e5-000077b07658
#10yrsago New Yorker on Kim Stanley Robinson: “Our Greatest Political Novelist” https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/our-greatest-political-novelist
#10yrsago Bike helmets and safety: a case study in difficult epidemiology https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f3817?ijkey=I5vHBog6FhaaLzX&keytype=ref
#10yrsago Shareholder sues IBM for spying on China, wiping $12.9B off its market cap https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/12/us-ibm-lawsuit-idUSBRE9BB1BP20131212/
#10yrsago EU politicans who got raises worked less; MEPs with pay-cuts worked more https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/dec/14/politicans-pay-work-ethic-meps
#10yrsago HOWTO make gingerbread polyhedral dice http://ournerdhome.com/gingerbread-d20/
#10yrsago Amazon takes away access to purchased Christmas movie during Christmas https://memex.craphound.com/2013/12/15/amazon-takes-away-access-to-purchased-christmas-movie-during-christmas/
#10yrsago Getting your head around the Pentagon’s titanic, enormous, unauditably large budget https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/pentagon-budget-deal-charts-cuts/
#5yrsago Trump’s scandal-haunted Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is out https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46580094
#5yrsago Trump’s acting Chief of Staff in 2016: Trump is a “terrible human being” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-next-chief-of-staff-called-him-a-terrible-human-being-just-before-he-was-elected-president?ref=scroll
#5yrsago The Bleeding Edge: a terrifying, enraging look at the corrupt, deadly world of medical implants https://memex.craphound.com/2018/12/15/the-bleeding-edge-a-terrifying-enraging-look-at-the-corrupt-deadly-world-of-medical-implants/
#1yrago How cable monopolists tricked conservatives into shooting themselves in the face https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/15/useful-idiotsuseful-idiots/#unrequited-love
