This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.

Next Saturday (May 20), I’ll be at the GAITHERSBURG Book Festival with my novel Red Team Blues; then on May 22, I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.

On May 23, I’ll be in TORONTO for a book launch that’s part of WEPFest, a benefit for the West End Phoenix, onstage with Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (Citizen Lab) and the whistleblower Dr Nancy Olivieri.

#20yrsago Five perspectives on spectrum allocation https://memex.craphound.com/2003/05/14/five-perspectives-on-spectrum-allocation/

#20yrsago Vonnegut on “Shock and Awe” https://web.archive.org/web/20030512065845/https://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=191_0_4_0_C

#15yrsago Universal Music: when we get hit with copyright damages, that’s “unconstitutionally excessive” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/05/double-standard-umg-fights-excessive-infringement-damages/

#10yrsago Inside the world’s largest ghost mall, America finds schadenfreude and comfort for its fears of a Chinese century https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2013/05/07/watson-china-ghost-mall.cnn

#10yrsago Osaka’s fascist mayor defends WWII policy of sexual enslavement: “a comfort women system is necessary. Anyone can understand that.”…