This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.

#20yrsago Linda Barry’s Doggy Summer Bingo https://web.archive.org/web/20020606053404/https://www.salon.com/mwt/comics/2001/08/03/barry3/index.html

#15yrsago Global warming beer made from melting ice-caps http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5234194.stm

#10yrsago Virtual pets starve after bungled resolution to Second Life’s “unauthorized food” war https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/08/sl-meeroos-griefed.html

#10yrsago Law prof: it would be legal to mint 2x $1 trillion platinum coins & use them to pay the US debt https://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/28/balkin.obama.options/index.html

#5yrsago Big rigs can be hijacked and driven with software-based attacks https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot16/workshop-program/presentation/burakova

#5yrsago Chinese government decrees that it is always legal to video-record the police https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1995447/chinese-free-film-police-long-they-dont-get-way

#5yrsago Mexico-US illegal migration has been at zero for 8 years, and other eye-opening facts https://www.wnyc.org/story/bnch-migration-doug-massey/

#5yrsago Lawsuit: Getty Images copyfrauded 47,000 photos from indie press agency Zuma…