This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019, 2024.

I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me SATURDAY (Apr 27) in MARIN COUNTY, then Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

#15yrsago London cop’s Facebook: “Can’t wait to bash” G20 protestors http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8016620.stm

#15yrsago Dangerous terrorists arrested in the UK weren’t http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8011955.stm

#10yrsago Muslims sue FBI: kept on no-fly list because they wouldn’t turn informant https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/suit-claims-muslims-put-on-no-fly-list-for-refusing-to-become-informants/

#10yrsago Lost Warhol originals extracted from decaying Amiga floppies https://web.archive.org/web/20140424093724/https://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/events/warhol-discovery

#10yrsago Making a planetary-scale sandwich https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/23symq/me_located_in_iceland_and_my_friend_located_in/

#10yrsago Drunk 18 year old girl rushed to hospital from Canadian PM Stephen Harper’s residence https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/intoxicated-18-year-old-girl-reportedly-rushed-to-hospital-from-prime-minister-harpers-residence

#5yrsago Nest’s “ease of use” imperative plus poor integration with Google security has turned it into a hacker’s playground https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/24/nests-ease-of-use-imperative-plus-poor-integration-with-google-security-has-turned-it-into-a-hackers-playground/

#1yrago How Goldman Sachs’s “tax-loss harvesting” lets the ultra-rich rake in billions tax-free https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/24/tax-loss-harvesting/#mego