This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

This weekend (November 8–10), I’ll be in Tucson, AZ: I’m the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention.

#20yrsago Vintage glasses-frames at decent prices https://memex.craphound.com/2004/11/07/vintage-glasses-frames-at-decent-prices/

#15yrsago Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs https://web.archive.org/web/20091108015518/http://torontoist.com/2009/11/disgruntled_star_editor_takes_revenge.php

#15yrsago Danish anti-piracy group gives up https://web.archive.org/web/20091112102256/http://freeform101.org/?p=357

#10yrsago Book of seashell scans bound in a seashell https://www.tumblr.com/laurenabishop/84561495428/scallop-shell-artists-book-that-i-made-filled

#5yrsago The case for breaking up Disney https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-disney-part

#5yrsago Guillotine watch: Louis XVI’s final chateau, never occupied by royalty, is for sale, just in time for the next revolution https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/10/04/a-sleeping-chateau-untouched-since-the-revolution-is-for-sale/

#5yrsago Leaked internal docs show that Facebook shuts down access to user data to kill competitors, but claims it is protecting users https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/leaked-documents-show-facebook-leveraged-user-data-fight-rivals-help-n1076986

#1yrago Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’ https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/07/preppers-of-the-red-death/#the-event