This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.

#20yrsago Run Quake on a Linux PDA https://web.archive.org/web/20011212074611/https://www.insomniq.com/files/zaurus/shots/quake.html

#15yrsago Recording industry swears off DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20070105034039/https://newmusicstrategies.com/2006/11/12/major-labels-to-abandon-drm/</a.

#10yrsago 21 lb layer cake containing three pies https://web.archive.org/web/20111127015357/http://www.charlesphoenix.com/2011/09/sunday-brunch-cherpumple/

#10yrsago Blazing de-bullshitification of the arguments for militarized campus police forces https://www.huffpost.com/entry/uc-davis-protest_b_1103039

#10yrsago Why “earn” is a poor word-choice when describing the profits of the 1% https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/22/occupy-language-struggle-over-meaning

#10yrsago Aussie senator: News Corp offered me favorable coverage if I killed legislation it didn’t like https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/nov/23/murdoch-news-corp-senator-bribe

#5yrsago Alex Halderman: we will never know if the Wisconsin vote was hacked unless we check now https://medium.com/@jhalderm/want-to-know-if-the-election-was-hacked-look-at-the-ballots-c61a6113b0ba#.txlf1uqhv

#5yrsago Turkish dictator fires 15,000 more public workers, shuts down 375 more NGOs and 9 more news outlets https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-coup-fired.html

#5yrsago Kansas Attorney General apologizes for citing Dred Scott decision in abortion-ban brief https://web.archive.org/web/20161020154151/http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article109166717.html

#5yrsago UK’s new surveillance law creates a national browser history with a search engine to match https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13718768/uk-surveillance-laws-explained-investigatory-powers-bill

#5yrsago Snowden’s lawyer says he’ll testify about German surveillance…if Germany gets him safe passage out of Russia https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/snowden-can-be-invited-in-person-german-nsa-inquiry-court/

#1yrago Guatemala’s guillotines…