This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.

This Friday (September 22), I’m (virtually) presenting at the DIG Festival in Modena, Italy. That night, I’ll be in person at LA’s Book Soup for the launch of Justin C Key’s The World Wasn’t Ready for You. On September 27, I’ll be at Chevalier’s Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine.

#20yrsago Dewey Decimal bullies go after theme hotel https://web.archive.org/web/20030901000000*/http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--deweydecimaldefen0920sep20,0,3455241.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

#15yrsago Publishing’s crises (incompletely) explained https://nymag.com/news/media/50279/

#10yrsago DragonCon cosplayers who dressed up as Marriott carpet get a cease-and-desist for their fabric offering https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/fandom/marriott-hotel-carpet-cosplay-legal-action/

#5yrsago Search the databases of Trump political appointees’ resumes and discover their undisclosed conflicts of interest https://projects.propublica.org/trump-town/staffers/category/resumes

#5yrsago Research shows that patent examiners are more likely to grant patents to companies they later work for https://www.nber.org/papers/w24638