#20yrago UK anti-piracy officer assures Firefox she’ll catch the pirates who copy it https://web.archive.org/web/20060511105535/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2051196,00.html

#20yrsago Diane Duane vows to finish trilogy as a reader-supported web-book https://web.archive.org/web/20060630094910/http://outofambit.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_outofambit_archive.html#114069083471800451

#15yrago Order of Odd-Fish, a funny, mannered, hilariously weird epic romp https://memex.craphound.com/2011/02/23/order-of-odd-fish-a-funny-mannered-hilariously-weird-epic-romp/

#15yrsago HOWTO make a batpole flip-top bust switch https://web.archive.org/web/20110218013400/https://www.thenewhobbyist.com/2011/02/wireless-light-switch-or-bust/

#15yrsago Travel guide for American invalids, 1887 https://web.archive.org/web/20110225235315/http://www.butifandthat.com/guide-for-invalids/

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#20yrsago Ray Bradbury: LA needs monorails! https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-05-op-bradbury5-story.html

#20yrsago How statistics caught Indonesia’s war-criminals https://web.archive.org/web/20060423232814/https://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,70196-0.html

#20yrsago Canadian Red Cross vows to sue first aid kits, too https://memex.craphound.com/2006/02/10/canadian-red-cross-vows-to-sue-first-aid-kits-too/

#20yrsago Sports announcer traded for Walt Disney’s first character https://web.archive.org/web/20060312134156/http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-nbc-michaels&prov=ap&type=lgns

#15yrago Government transparency doesn’t matter without accountability https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2011/feb/10/government-data-crime-maps

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#15yrsago EULAs + Arbitration = endless opportunity for abuse https://archive.org/details/TheUnconcionabilityOfArbitrationAgreementsInEulas

#15yrsago Wikipedia’s facts-about-facts make the impossible real https://web.archive.org/web/20091116023225/http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol20/?pg=16

#15yrsago How Britain’s Pirate Finder General is trying to save the Analog Economy at the Digital Economy’s expense https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/nov/26/digital-economy-file-sharing-mandelson

#15yrago Musician’s open letter, sung to Peter Mandelson, Britain’s Pirate-Finder General https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_P4lJD_OPI

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#20yrago Printer cartridges aren’t copyrighted works https://web.archive.org/web/20041102085343/http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2004/10/static_control_.html

#15yrsago Italian politician sues 4000+ YouTube commenters https://web.archive.org/web/20091030044651/http://www.antoniodipietro.com/en/2009/10/we_will_defend_you_all_from_cu.html

#15yrago Terrified London cops spending millions gathering useless intelligence on peaceful protestors https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/oct/26/police-protest-data-protection

#10yrsago Edward Snowden interviewed by Lawrence @lessig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sr96TFQQE

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#15yrsago 555 California security guards in San Fran threaten to punch sidewalk photographer, break his f*cking camera https://web.archive.org/web/20091025233149/http://calibersf.com/2009/10/23/i-will-break-your-fucking-camera/

#15yrsago Barclay’s terrible bank-security https://web.archive.org/web/20091028154706/http://www.links.org/?p=772

#15yrago Spectator throws out public safety, embraces sensationalism and AIDS denialism https://www.badscience.net/2009/10/aids-denialism-at-the-spectator/

#15yrsago Booklife: a guide to a sane, productive writerly life https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/22/booklife-a-guide-to-a-sane-productive-writerly-life/

#10yrsago Carl Hiaasen’s “Skink No Surrender” https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/22/carl-hiaasens-skink-no-surrender/

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#15yrsago Neuros OSD: a set-top box that treats you like an owner https://memex.craphound.com/2007/05/15/neuros-osd-a-set-top-box-that-treats-you-like-an-owner/

#15yrago Gonzales proposes criminalizing “attempted infringement” https://web.archive.org/web/20070517111706/http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html

#15yrsago Falwell’s stupidest quotes, direct from hell https://americansexuality.blogspot.com/2007/05/rev-jerry-falwells-greatest-hits.html

#15yrsago Your old CD ROMs could help EFF kill a bogus patent! https://web.archive.org/web/20070518055539/http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005254.php

#15yrsago Today is America’s wiretap the Internet day https://web.archive.org/web/20140414101115/http://www.wired.com/2007/05/reminder_monday/

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#15yrsago Giant coalition opposes Broadcast Treaty www.keionline.org/misc-docs/StmtforMay9USPTORoundtable.pdf

#15yrsago India trying to save the world from yoga patentshttps://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/opinion/07mehta.html

#15yrago BBC recruits Microsoft DRM exec https://web.archive.org/web/20070523094138/https://informitv.com/articles/2007/05/03/bbcappointsmicrosoft/

#10yrsago RIP, Maurice Sendak https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/08/maurice-sendak-wild-things-dies-83

#10yrsago Welcome to your 2012 election season, let the suppression of political debate begin. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/good-citizenship-online-service-providers-lets-not-let-dailykos-takedown-be

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#15yrago Sony *finally* releases rookit uninstaller — sort of https://web.archive.org/web/20051204015131/http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html

#10yrsago UK govt demands an end to evidence-based drug policy https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/dec/05/government-scientific-advice-drugs-policy?

#1yrago Prasad’s Law: there’s always enough health spending to concentrate wealth, never enough to diffuse it https://memex.craphound.com/2019/12/06/prasads-law-theres-always-enough-health-spending-to-concentrate-wealth-never-enough-to-diffuse-it/

#1yrago The retreat of “scientific selfishness,” a literature review https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/greed-is-dead/

#1yrago Radicalized is one of the CBC’s best books of 2019! https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-canadian-fiction-of-2019-1.5382741

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#15yrago Official French translation for "weblog" https://web.archive.org/web/20051123210140/http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2005/05/want_to_say_web.html

#10yrsago Infoladies of Bangladesh revolutionize rural life https://www.theguardian.com/journalismcompetition/professional-two-wheel-triumph

#5yrsago The Man Who Sold The Moon https://boingboing.net/2015/05/22/the-man-who-sold-the-moon.html

#1yrago A self-appointed wing of the American judicial system is about to make it much harder to fight terms of service https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3x79a/new-proposal-would-let-companies-further-screw-you-over-with-terms-of-service

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#15yrsago ETECH Notes: Life Hacks Live! (Danny O'Brien and Merlin Mann) https://craphound.com/etech2005-lifehacks.txt

#15yrago Sterling and Steffen's SXSW keynote https://web.archive.org/web/20050318074350/http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002353.html

#5yrsago The Glorkian Warrior Eats Adventure Pie https://boingboing.net/2015/03/17/the-glorkian-warrior-eats-adve.html

#1yrago China's "pawn shops" have loaned $43B, mostly secured by real-estate https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-12/china-is-said-to-scrutinize-43-billion-pawn-shop-lending-boom

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