This day in history
2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
On September 24th, I’ll be speaking in person at the Boston Public Library!
#20yrsago TSA OKs airport crotch-mauling https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2004/09/18/tighter-screeni.html
#20yrsago Haunted Mansion castmember’s remembrance https://web.archive.org/web/20040916234226/https://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_55663.asp
#15yrsago Teacher asks YA author if virtual visit can take place “with us being able to see you, but you not being able to see us” https://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/can-you-please-come-talk-to-my-class-but-not-look-at-anyone/
#15yrsago Britain’s postal-code database online at Wikileaks: produced at public expense, not owned by the public https://memex.craphound.com/2009/09/16/britains-postal-code-database-online-at-wikileaks-produced-at-public-expense-not-owned-by-the-public/
#15yrsago Working handcuff keys printed on a 3D printer https://blackbag.toool.nl/?p=940
#15yrsago Rich Seattle suburbs install ubiquitous surveillance cameras, cops follow all “suspicious” vehicles https://web.archive.org/web/20090922170058/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009873854_medina16m.html
#15yrsago XKCD book is out https://blog.xkcd.com/2009/09/15/xkcd-volume-0/
#15yrsago Game economy credit-crunch: mismanaged bank freezes player accounts https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2009/08/virtual-bank-in-eve-freezes-accounts-due-to-deficit/
#10yrsago How your smartphone betrays you all day long https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2014/07/30/how-your-innocent-smartphone-passes-on-almost-your-entire-life-to-the-secret-service/
#10yrsago Rightscorp cuts-and-runs as soon as it is challenged in court https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-internet-provider-refuses-to-expose-30000-alleged-pirates-140909/
#10yrsago Downvoting considered harmful https://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/disqus-icwsm14.pdf
#10yrsago 3D printed book of bas relief from Art Institute of Chicago https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:463657
#5yrsago Tolkien’s Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is probably a misogynist satire of women’s rights campaigner Victoria Sackville-West https://twitter.com/Quatr_us/status/1173211758833668096
#1yrago Greenwashing set Canada on fire https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/16/murder-offsets/#pulped-and-papered
