This day in history
2003, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW in SAN FRANCISCO (Mar 13), and more!
#20yrsago Everquest widows tell all https://eqdailygrind.blogspot.com
#15yrsago Warner Music attacks babies https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/03/fair-use-massacre-continues-now-warner-s-going-aft
#15yrsago Net Neutrality gave us the Web and saved us from gopher https://www.vice.com/en/article/xywdqk/what-the-first-website-ever-says-about-the-world-wide-webs-that-might-have-been
#15yrsago China’s mondegreen war on net-censorship http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/etech-liveblogging-lessons-fro.html
#15yrsago Influences on the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/10/the-influences-behind-the-laugh-out-loud-cats-by-adam-koford/
#15yrsago IT versus users: a war that everyone loses https://web.archive.org/web/20090312222459/http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/now-new-next/2009/03/the-high-priests-of-it.html
#15yrsago Billy Bragg and a coalition of UK rock stars speak up for downloaders https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/it-s-not-a-crime-to-download-say-musicians-1643217.html
#10yrsago Free to Be…You and Me is 40 https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/living/free-to-be-you-and-me-40-years/index.html
#10yrsago Security as a public health discipline, not an engineering one https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/11/gchq-national-security-technology
#10yrsago How the NSA plans to automatically infect “millions” of computers with spyware https://theintercept.com/2014/03/12/nsa-plans-infect-millions-computers-malware/
#10yrsago Thoughts on teaching calculus to five-year-olds https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/5-year-olds-can-learn-calculus/284124/
#10yrsago Tim Berners-Lee calls for Web “Magna Carta” — does the “Web we want” have DRM in it? https://memex.craphound.com/2014/03/12/tim-berners-lee-calls-for-web-magna-carta-does-the-web-we-want-have-drm-in-it/
#5yrsago Trump’s FCC relies on telcos to self-police anti-robocall measures and they’re planning on gutting existing regs, so John Oliver is robocalling the whole FCC every 90 minutes https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/john-oliver-fights-robocalls-by-robocalling-ajit-pai-and-the-fcc/
#5yrsago Beninese musician/activist/genius Angélique Kidjo has released a tribute to Talking Heads’ Remain in Light and IT. IS. FUCKING. AMAZING. https://www.kidjo.com/remain-in-light
#5yrsago Offshore illegal GOP campaign megadonors receive record FEC fines after The Intercept reveals their crimes https://theintercept.com/2019/03/11/intercept-investigation-leads-to-record-fines-over-foreign-campaign-contributions/
#5yrsago What ephemeral messaging is good for https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/12/what-ephemeral-messaging-is-good-for/
#5yrsago One company bought all the retail outlets for glasses, used that to force sales of all the eyewear companies and jacked up prices by as much as 1000% https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-glasses-lenscrafters-luxottica-monopoly-20190305-story.html
#1yrsago Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/12/they-put-it-in-writing/#that-was-then
