I wanted to copy-paste their URLs and publish them, just to reinfuse them into the supersaturated solution of half-remembered facts that my mind periodically crystallizes into stories, novels, speeches, essays, and nonfiction books.

doctorow.medium.com/divination…

So I've produced a mega-retrospective, consisting of all the links for #20yrsago, #15yrsago, #10yrsago, #5yrsago, and #1yrago, for every day between now and January 7. See you in 2023!

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Divination - Cory Doctorow - Medium

Lake Mead is the massive reservoir that was created when the Hoover Dam stopped up the Colorado river, creating a reliable supply of water for Las Vegas casinos .

^{Cory Doctorow (Medium)}

#20yrsago The music industry STILL owes you $20! web.archive.org/web/2003062107…

#20yrsago New metaverse game launches web.archive.org/web/2003020314…

#20yrsago Jon Johansen acquitted! wired.com/2003/01/dvd-cracking…

#20yrsago Paleospam: the first-ever spam and the reaction templetons.com/brad/spamreact.…

#20yrsago William Gibson has a blog web.archive.org/web/2003020123…

#20yrsago JWZ’s mom discovers interface cruft https://web.archive.org/web/20021203003049/http://mpt.phrasewise.com/stories/storyReader$374

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#20yrsago Samuel Pepys' diary in blog form web.archive.org/web/2003012606…

#20yrsago Microsoft subverts sunshine laws at state colleges web.archive.org/web/2003022309…

#15yrsago From Nazi collaborator to Fortune 500 – companies that got rich on the Reich cracked.com/article_15767_thir…

#15yrsago History of guerrilla knitting at 24th Chaos Communication Congress fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congres…

#15yrsago Motley Fool: litigation isn’t a business model, sell RIAA short fool.com/investing/general/200…

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#15yrsago Sears infects customer computers with spyware washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/cont…

#15yrsago New IO9 blog launches web.archive.org/web/2008022002…

#15yrsago Resigning from Napster takes more than 30 minutes wired.com/2007/12/why-and-how-…

#15yrsago Neil Gaiman on Little Brother journal.neilgaiman.com/2007/12…

#15yrsago One-armed man arrested in Belarus for clapping loweringthebar.net/2013/01/one…

#15yrsago My free reading of Alice in Wonderland ia800501.us.archive.org/21/ite…

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#15yrsago Cockney illustrated Bible from the 14th century bl.uk/collection-items/holkham…

#10yrsago Hacker theatre troupe in Berlin to stage “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” web.archive.org/web/2013010820…

#10yrsago Dad hires in-game hitsquad to kill his son’s characters kotaku.com/father-hires-in-gam…

#10yrsago Telcos lobby North Carolina to make community Internet illegal, then abandon the state to second-worst Internet in the country ilsr.org/killing-competition-n…

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Father Hires In-Game "Hitmen" To Deter Son From Playing

Sick and tired of his son playing video games and not listening to him, a father in China decided to take matters into his own hands... well, sort of.

^{Eric Jou (Kotaku)}

#10yrsago You need a 1.5 ton gamelan, and I know where you can get it nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/…

#10yrsago Anatomy of a patent troll who wants $1000 from every scanner user in America: patents are totally, utterly broken arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago XKCD on New Year’s resolutions xkcd.com/1154/

#10yrsago Congress decides every aspect of your electronic life can be spied on without a warrant and you can’t know how much spying is going on eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/cong…

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Patent trolls want $1,000—for using scanners

An alphabet soup of patent trolls is threatening end users with lawsuits.

^{Ars Technica}

#10yrsago Soviet space-program Christmas cards mazaika.com/postcard01.html

#10yrsago Lord Buckley recounts the life of Christ: The Nazz! youtube.com/watch?v=U0x5x8lyON…

#10yrsago Gary Gygax explains why Christians shouldn’t celebrate Christmas playingattheworld.blogspot.com…

#5yrsago Jeff Sessions encourages courts to continue practice of fining poor people for being too poor to pay their fines washingtonpost.com/world/natio…

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Vintage Christmas card collection. 700 vintage postcards online

Old Russian and Soviet postcards, featuring Santa in space collection. Vintage Christmas card collection. More than 700 vintage postcards online!

^{www.mazaika.com}

#5yrsago Senator Bob Corker owed $120.5M when he was elected; now he’s worth $69M web.archive.org/web/2017122216…

#5yrsago American inequality is unequally distributed, and got lumpier after the Great Recession pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017…

#5yrsago Virginia is the most unequal state in the union, and is more unequal than at any time in (post-Reconstruction) history thehalfsheet.org/post/13986377…

#5yrsago 2018: the year that America’s ISPs hiked their prices dslreports.com/shownews/Comcas…

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Virginia is Exceptionally Unequal

Too many hard-working Virginians can’t seem to get ahead, despite working full-time. Turns out, there’s a reason for that. Median wages in Virginia are actually lower now in real terms than they were...

^{tcifiscal (Tumblr)}

#5yrsago Woman who accused Roy Moore is homeless after her house burned down, fire investigated as arson al.com/news/2018/01/roy_moore_…

#5yrsago Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to squirt coffee up your asshole using this $135 glass jar arstechnica.com/science/2018/0…

#5yrsago Nebraska State Senator proposes constitutional amendment to allow corporations to create tiny, sovereign nations with no laws, taxes or rules journalstar.com/legislature/se…

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Roy Moore accuser's Gadsden home burns; arson investigation underway

Roy Moore accuser Tina Johnson lost her home Wednesday in a fire that is now under investigation by the Etowah County Arson Task Force.

^{Anna Claire Vollers | avollers@reckonmedia.com (al)}

#5yrsago The story of how sf writer and editor Judith Merril founded Toronto’s astounding sf reference library and changed the city thestar.com/yourtoronto/once-u…

#5yrsago Astounding coincidence: Intel’s CEO liquidated all the stock he was legally permitted to sell after learning of catastrophic processor flaws arstechnica.com/information-te…

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Sci-fi author Judith Merril and the very real story of Toronto’s Spaced Out Library

A prolific author and pioneer Merril’s donation of 5,000 items started the Toronto Public Library’s massive speculative fiction collection.

^{Janice Bradbeer (Toronto Star)}

#5yrsago Virtually every modern computer is vulnerable to a pair of devastating attacks, and there’s only a fix for one of them, and it sucks spectreattack.com

#5yrsago For 20+ years, Japan’s largest companies have been riddled with corruption and fraud ft.com/content/26d4843a-e743-1…

#5yrsago Print of “lost” britcom discovered in Nigerian basement and restored with X-rays and laser-cutters bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2017-12-more…

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Japan Inc: a corporate culture on trial after scandals

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

^{Peter Wells (Financial Times)}

#5yrsago The guy whose DRM for juice company cratered last year now sells “raw water” packed with all the microbes and amoebas you can stomach nytimes.com/2017/12/29/dining/…

#5yrsago All that stuff that was “killed by the net”? The real culprit was hedge funds ft.com/content/17dfa7fe-eaf7-1…

#5yrsago Tehran’s police tell women that violations of religious dress codes will henceforth be treated as civil offenses, not criminal offenses apnews.com/article/iran-tehran…

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Tehran police: No more arrests for flouting dress code

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Police in Iran's capital said Thursday they will no longer arrest women for failing to observe the Islamic dress code in place since the 1979 revolution.

^{Amir Vahdat (Associated Press)}

#5yrsago China’s new army of nationalist trolls is an all-volunteer force ft.com/content/9ef9f592-e2bd-1…

#5yrsago The GOP tax plan will pay millionaires to subsidize failing religious schools npr.org/sections/ed/2017/12/28…

#5yrsago Hoaxer with a history of fake bomb threats SWATs and murders a random bystander over a $1.50 Call of Duty bet krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/ka…

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China’s Communist party raises army of nationalist trolls

Growing band of online patriots prowls the internet to promote their homeland

^{Yuan Yang (Financial Times)}

#5yrsago Charlie Stross’s CCC talk: the future of psychotic AIs can be read in today’s sociopathic corporations media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_…

#5yrsago California’s record poverty and real-estate bubble are creating a “wheel-estate” boom of people with good jobs living in their cars sandiegouniontribune.com/opini…

#5yrsago Does capitalism breed greed, or elevate the greedy? currentaffairs.org/2017/12/the…

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More Californians living in cars? A ‘wheel estate’ boom is coming.

A souped-up SUV with a big TV, satellite dish and a monthly payment less than half of sky-high rent is going to appeal to a lot of people scraping by paycheck to paycheck.

^{Chris Reed (San Diego Union-Tribune)}