#15yrsago Tim Wu on the new monopolists: a “last chapter” for The Master Switch https://web.archive.org/web/20151214010555/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704635704575604993311538482

#15yrsago Man at San Diego airport opts out of porno scanner and grope, told he’ll be fined $10K unless he submits to fondling https://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html

#10yrsago 100 useful tips from a bygone era https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?q=gallaher++how+to+do+it#/?scroll=18

#10yrsago Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was “co-author,” extends copyright by decades https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/books/anne-frank-has-a-co-as-diary-gains-co-author-in-legal-move.html

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#15yrsago Tim Wu on the new monopolists: a “last chapter” for The Master Switch https://web.archive.org/web/20151214010555/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704635704575604993311538482

#15yrsago Man at San Diego airport opts out of porno scanner and grope, told he’ll be fined $10K unless he submits to fondling https://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html

#10yrsago 100 useful tips from a bygone era https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?q=gallaher++how+to+do+it#/?scroll=18

#10yrsago Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was “co-author,” extends copyright by decades https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/books/anne-frank-has-a-co-as-diary-gains-co-author-in-legal-move.html

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#15yrsago Tractor sale gone bad ends with man eating own beard https://web.archive.org/web/20101113200759/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40136299

#10yrsago San Francisco Airport security screeners charged with complicity in drug-smuggling https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/three-san-francisco-international-airport-security-screeners-charged-fraud-and

#10yrsago Female New Zealand MPs ejected from Parliament for talking about their sexual assault https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/11/new-zealand-female-mps-mass-walkout-pm-rapists-comment

#10yrsago Councillor who voted to close all public toilets gets a ticket for public urination https://uk.news.yahoo.com/councillor-cut-public-toilets-fined-094432429.html#1snIQOG

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#20yrsago New Sony lockware prevents selling or loaning of games https://memex.craphound.com/2005/11/12/new-sony-lockware-prevents-selling-or-loaning-of-games/

#20yrsago Dr Seuss meets Star Trek https://web.archive.org/web/20051126025052/http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.sttng.html

#20yrsago Sony’s *other* malicious audio CD trojan https://memex.craphound.com/2005/11/12/sonys-other-malicious-audio-cd-trojan/

#15yrsago Will TSA genital grope/full frontal nudity “security” make you fly less? https://web.archive.org/web/20101115011017/https://blogs.reuters.com/ask/2010/11/12/are-new-security-screenings-affecting-your-decision-to-fly/

#15yrsago Make inner-tube laces, turn your shoes into slip-ons https://www.instructables.com/Make-normal-shoes-into-slip-ons-with-inner-tubes/

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#20yrsago Sony will stop shipping infectious CDs — too little, too late https://www.vaildaily.com/news/sony-halts-production-of-music-cds-with-copy-protection-scheme/

#15yrsago We Won’t Fly: national aviation opt-out day in protest of TSA porno scanner/genital grope “security” https://web.archive.org/web/20101111201035/https://wewontfly.com/

#10yrsago Green tea doesn’t promote weight loss https://www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD008650_green-tea-weight-loss-and-weight-maintenance-overweight-or-obese-adults

#10yrsago The DoJ won’t let anyone in the Executive Branch read the CIA Torture Report https://www.techdirt.com/2015/11/11/doj-has-blocked-everyone-executive-branch-reading-senates-torture-report/

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#15yrsago UK security chief upset at being asked to surrender banned items at Heathrow https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/terror-chief-tries-to-board-plane-260577

#10yrsago All smart TVs are watching you back, but Vizio’s spyware never blinks https://www.propublica.org/article/own-a-vizio-smart-tv-its-watching-you

#10yrsago Gallery of the Soviet Union’s most desirable personal computers https://www.rbth.com/multimedia/pictures/2014/04/07/before_the_internet_top_11_soviet_pcs_35711

#10yrsago Future Forms: beautifully curated collection of space-age electronics https://www.future-forms.com/
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#15yrsago UK security chief upset at being asked to surrender banned items at Heathrow https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/terror-chief-tries-to-board-plane-260577

#10yrsago All smart TVs are watching you back, but Vizio’s spyware never blinks https://www.propublica.org/article/own-a-vizio-smart-tv-its-watching-you

#10yrsago Gallery of the Soviet Union’s most desirable personal computers https://www.rbth.com/multimedia/pictures/2014/04/07/before_the_internet_top_11_soviet_pcs_35711

#10yrsago Future Forms: beautifully curated collection of space-age electronics https://www.future-forms.com/
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#20yrsago Agent to the Stars: comic sf about an alien race’s Hollywood agent https://memex.craphound.com/2005/11/10/agent-to-the-stars-comic-sf-about-an-alien-races-hollywood-agent/

#15yrsago ACTA will force your ISP to censor your work if someone lodges an unsupported trademark claim https://www.itnews.com.au/news/acta-isps-could-be-liable-for-trademark-infringements-238141

#15yrsago Free Kinect drivers released; Adafruit pays $3k bounty to hacker, $2k more to EFF https://blog.adafruit.com/2010/11/10/we-have-a-winner-open-kinect-drivers-released-winner-will-use-3k-for-more-hacking-plus-an-additional-2k-goes-to-the-eff/

#15yrsago White paper on 3D printing and the law: the coming copyfight https://publicknowledge.org/it-will-be-awesome-if-they-dont-screw-it-up-3d-printing/

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#15yrsago RIP, Robbins Barstow, godfather of the home movie revival https://amateurism.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/robbins-barstow-1919-2010/

#15yrsago Math papers with complicated, humbling titles https://web.archive.org/web/20101113223106/http://www.daddymodern.com/top-five-utterly-incomprehensible-mathematics-titles-at-arxiv-org/

#15yrsago Shirky: Times paywall is pretty much like all the other paywalls http://shirky.com/weblog/the-times-paywall-and-newsletter-economics/

#10yrsago 10,000 wax cylinders digitized and free to download https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php

#10yrsago The Economist’s anti-ad-blocking tool was hacked and infected readers’ computers https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/6/9681124/pagefair-economist-malware-ad-blocker

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#20yrsago Where do trolls come from? https://web.archive.org/web/20051124144047/http://www.barbelith.com/topic/22769

#20yrsago Lists of corrupted CDs https://web.archive.org/web/20051104092309/http://ukcdr.org/issues/cd/bad/

#20yrsago Wanna sue the pants off Sony? https://web.archive.org/web/20051113134057/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004149.php

#20yrsago Katamari sushi https://www.flickr.com/photos/59199828@N00/61624921/

#20yrsago Sony’s EULA is worse than their rootkit https://web.archive.org/web/20051113134044/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php

#20yrsago List of CDs infected with Sony’s rootkit DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20051113134049/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004144.php

#15yrsago TSA: checkpoint groping doesn’t exist https://web.archive.org/web/20101112010440/http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/11/white-house-blog-backscatter-back-story.html?showComment=1289329969182#c8438617926094279566

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#15yrsago Colorado DA drops felony hit-and-run charges against billion-dollar financier because of “serious job implications” https://web.archive.org/web/20101108122254/http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20101104/NEWS/101109939/1078&ParentProfile=1062

#10yrsago A Freedom of Information request for UK Home Secretary Theresa May’s metadata https://www.techdirt.com/2015/11/06/uk-home-secretary-says-dont-worry-about-collection-metadata-foia-request-made-her-metadata/

#10yrsago Religious children more punitive, less likely to display altruism https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/06/religious-children-less-altruistic-secular-kids-study

#10yrsago Once again, the SFPD blames a cyclist for his own death without any investigation https://sfist.com/2015/11/04/sfpd_once_again_blames_cyclist_for/

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#20yrsago Singapore’s stocking-foot executioner https://web.archive.org/web/20051029103210/http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17057851-2,00.html

#20yrsago Cinemas as police-states: why box-office revenue is in decline? https://web.archive.org/web/20051107024915/https://www.politechbot.com/2005/11/04/how-the-mpaa/

#20yrsago Westchester Co’s clueless WiFi lawmakers demonstrate cluelessness http://www.psychicfriends.net/blog/archives/2005/11/06/idiot_politicians_in_my_neighborhood.html

#20yrsago Katamari Damacy homemade models http://www.harveycartel.org/mare/pics/katamari.html

#15yrsago Cut-up artist alphabetizes the newspaper https://web.archive.org/web/20101109012930/http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/11/kim-rugg-london-artists-knife-skills-knack-precision/

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#15yrsago The Master Switch: Tim “Net Neutrality” Wu explains what’s at stake in the battle for net freedom https://memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01/the-master-switch-tim-net-neutrality-wu-explains-whats-at-stake-in-the-battle-for-net-freedom/

#15yrsago Times Online claims 200K paid users: but where’s the detailed breakdown? https://memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01/times-online-claims-200k-paid-users-but-wheres-the-detailed-breakdown/

#15yrsago Duelling useless machines: a metaphor for polarized politics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkgoSOSGrx4

#15yrsago Hari Prasad, India’s evoting researcher, working to save Indian democracy from dirty voting machines https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/2010-pioneer-award-winner-hari-prasad-defends

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#20yrsago BBC Archive database — early info https://web.archive.org/web/20051102024643/https://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000071.html

#20yrsago Sony releases de-rootkit-ifier, lies about risks from rootkits https://web.archive.org/web/20051126084940/http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=921

#20yrsago Pew study: Kids remix like hell https://web.archive.org/web/20051104022412/http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/166/source/rss/report_display.asp

#15yrsago How I use the Internet when I’m playing with my kid https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/nov/02/cory-doctorow-children-and-computers

#15yrsago Bedtime Story: Supernatural thriller about the dark side of “getting lost in a good book” https://memex.craphound.com/2010/11/02/bedtime-story-supernatural-thriller-about-the-dark-side-of-getting-lost-in-a-good-book/

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#15yrsago Toronto cops who removed their name-tags during the G20 to avoid identification will be docked a day’s pay https://web.archive.org/web/20101107144339/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/nearly-100-toronto-officers-to-be-disciplined-over-summit-conduct/article1784884/ /

#15yrsago $2K bounty for free/open Kinect drivers (Microsoft thinks this is illegal!) https://blog.adafruit.com/2010/11/04/the-open-kinect-project-the-ok-prize-get-1000-bounty-for-kinect-for-xbox-360-open-source-drivers/

#15yrsago TSA official slipped white powder into fliers’ bags, told them they’d been caught with coke and were under arrest https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/memos-detail-tsa-officers-cocaine-pranks

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#15yrsago Science fiction tells us all laws are local — just like the Web https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-a-cosmopolitan-literature-for-the-cosmopolitan-web/

#15yrsago UK Lord claims mysterious "foundation" wants to give Britain £17B, no strings attached http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/11/conspiracy-theories.html

#15yrsago New Zealand proposes “guilty until proven innocent” copyright law to punish accused infringers https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/11/new-zealand-p2p-proposal-guilty-until-proven-innocent/

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#15yrsago The Master Switch: Tim “Net Neutrality” Wu explains what’s at stake in the battle for net freedom https://memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01/the-master-switch-tim-net-neutrality-wu-explains-whats-at-stake-in-the-battle-for-net-freedom/

#15yrsago Times Online claims 200K paid users: but where’s the detailed breakdown? https://memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01/times-online-claims-200k-paid-users-but-wheres-the-detailed-breakdown/

#15yrsago Duelling useless machines: a metaphor for polarized politics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkgoSOSGrx4

#15yrsago Hari Prasad, India’s evoting researcher, working to save Indian democracy from dirty voting machines https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/2010-pioneer-award-winner-hari-prasad-defends

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