#25yrsago Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s formal excommunication from the Latter Day Saints https://web.archive.org/web/20010203204300/http://www.panix.com/~pnh/GodandI.html

#20yrsago King Foundation uses copyright to suppress “I Have a Dream” speech https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011400980.html

#20yrsago Firefly fans trying to raise enough dough to produce a new season https://web.archive.org/web/20060118033219/https://www.browncoatsriseagain.com/

#20yrsago New discussion draft of GNU General Public License is released https://gplv3.fsf.org/

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#20yrsago Study: how Canadian copyright law is bought by entertainment co’s https://web.archive.org/web/20060207141159/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1075

#20yrsago My Toronto Star editorial about Hollywood’s Member of Parliament https://web.archive.org/web/20060616024225/http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1137279034770

#10yrsago Aaron Swartz’s “Against School” – business leaders have been decrying education since 1845 https://newrepublic.com/article/127317/school

#10yrsago Yosemite agrees to change the names of its significant locations to appease trademark troll https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/yosemite-rename-several-iconic-places/?scope=anon

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Hey look at this

* No, liberals were not right about Trump https://www.peoplesline.org/p/no-liberals-were-not-right-about (h/t User Mag)

* Asimov’s Editor Sheila Williams Hospitalized https://locusmag.com/2026/01/sheila-williams-hospitalized/

* Want to understand the K-shaped economy? Go fly on an airplane https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/business/k-shaped-economy-delta-nightcap

* How It Stops, How It Ends https://www.againstallenemies.net/p/how-it-stops-how-it-ends

* ‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’ https://sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickled-each-others-brains?giftLink=ce04b5653afd37bc361bfdaab30b6b62

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#25yrsago Hey, Mark made me a guest editor! https://memex.craphound.com/2001/01/13/hey-mark-made-me-a/

#15yrsago Woz on Network Neutrality https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/steve-wozniak-to-the-fcc-keep-the-internet-free/68294/

#15yrsago Disney World’s awful Tiki Room catches fire https://web.archive.org/web/20110116093950/http://thedisneyblog.com/2011/01/12/fire-reported-at-magic-kingdom-tiki-room/

#10yrsago For the first time in 15 years, there’s a new Violent Femmes album https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/01/13/462656061/hear-a-song-from-violent-femmes-first-album-in-15-years

#10yrsago 3D Systems abandons its Cube printers, but DRM means you can’t buy filament from anyone else https://michaelweinberg.org/post/137045828005/free-the-cube

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Hey look at this

* Bruce Sterling going very, very hard https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page05.html#post116

* Get Lost, 2025 https://www.loweringthebar.net/2026/01/get-lost-2025.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=loweringthebar

* How to know if that job will crush your soul https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/12/will-that-job-crush-your-soul/

* Why Did Trump Just Attack the Fed and Corporate America? https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-why-did-trump-just

* The Top Ten Policies Your State Can Use to Target Monopoly Harms https://ilsr.org/article/independent-business/top-ten-policies-your-state-can-use-to-target-monopoly-harms/

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#10yrsago Rich Americans are embarrassed by Donald Trump https://web.archive.org/web/20160115052314/https://gawker.com/donald-trumps-personal-brand-is-slowly-excruciatingly-1752374812?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=tuesdayAM

#10yrsago New US law says kids can walk to school by themselves https://www.fastcompany.com/3055107/federal-law-now-says-kids-can-walk-to-school-alone

#10yrsago Toronto’s mayor demands an end to competition for fast, affordable broadband https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2016/01/why-mayors-john-tory-and-jim-watson-are-against-competition-for-access-to-affordable-fast-broadband/

#10yrsago Your smartwatch knows your ATM and phone PIN https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.05616v1

#10yrsago Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical https://memex.craphound.com/2016/01/12/keep-your-scythe-the-real-green-future-is-high-tech-democratic-and-radical/

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#10yrsago Bowie, Eno and serendipity https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford_how_frustration_can_make_us_more_creative

#10yrsago Chelsea Manning reviews book of Aaron Swartz’s writing https://medium.com/@xychelsea/remembering-aaron-swartz-94d204b9e190#.5fcfs5mby

#10yrsago WATCH: documentary on Walt Disney, the futurist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwLznNpJz2I

#10yrsago Guns filled with guts: Anatomy of War https://www.noahscalin.com/#/anatomyofwar1/

#10yrsago Book says Daddy Koch built Nazi oil refinery & hired a Nazi nanny for his boys, who blackmailed their gay brother https://web.archive.org/web/20160114081716/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/11/new-book-father-of-politically-active-koch-brothers-built-a-refinery-for-the-nazis/

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#10yrsago Sympathetic Bernie Sanders profile in Bloomberg Businessweek https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-bernie-sanders-fundraising/

#10yrsago Internal documents from breathalyzer company Lifesaver dumped online https://web.archive.org/web/20160113075611/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/car-breathalyzer-company-gets-hacked-internal-docs-dumped-on-dark-web

#10yrsago How fraudsters’ call centers work https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/01/a-look-inside-cybercriminal-call-centers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KrebsOnSecurity+(Krebs+on+Security)

#10yrsago Why all scientific diet research turns out to be bullshit https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition/?ex_cid=story-facebook

#10yrsago NSA says it will take four years to answer questions about its kids’ coloring book https://web.archive.org/web/20160114074709/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-nsa-told-me-it-needs-4-years-to-answer-a-foia-about-a-coloring-book

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#15yrsago HOWTO teach your small children to swordfight https://reactormag.com/spec-fic-parenting-this-my-son-is-a-sword/

#15yrsago HOWTO make a secure, decentralized, human-readable name system http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko

#15yrsago Demon rug https://www.flickr.com/photos/missmonstermel/5346690831/in/photostream/

#15yrsago Jeff Koons claims to own all balloon dogs https://www.designboom.com/art/jeff-koons-can-one-copyright-a-balloon-animal/

#10yrsago Brewster Kahle remembers Aaron Swartz: “an open source life” https://www.aaronswartzday.org/brewster-sf-memorial/

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#20yrsago Indie labels give free MP3s to customers who buy vinyl https://web.archive.org/web/20060111215100/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004313.php

#20yrsago Hollywood’s Canadian politico lies about her approach to lawmaking https://web.archive.org/web/20110425163053/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1071

#20yrsago Correcting the Record: Wikipedia vs The Register https://memex.craphound.com/2006/01/11/correcting-the-record-wikipedia-vs-the-register/

#20yrsago Hollywood’s MP denounces “users,” “EFF members” — video https://web.archive.org/web/20060323035434/http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/12/1659162.html

#20yrsago My short-short story “Printcrime” in this week’s Nature magazine https://craphound.com/stories/2006/01/12/printcrime/#more

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#20yrsago HOWTO convert an Oral B flosser into a vibrating lockpick https://web.archive.org/web/20060113090614/http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/lockpick/lockpick.aspx

#20yrsago Levi’s to ship iPod jeans https://web.archive.org/web/20060113045708/https://www.popgadget.net/2006/01/levis_ipod_jean.php

#20yrsago Chumbawamba: Why we don’t use DRM on our CDs https://web.archive.org/web/20060112044019/http://www.chumba.com/Chumbawambacopyprotect1.html

#20yrsago UK Parliamentarians demand WiFi https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/british-parliament-members-demand-wi-fi-access/

#15yrsago Sue Townsend talks Adrian Mole with the Guardian book-club https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2011/jan/10/sue-townsend-adrian-mole-book-club

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#20yrsago John McDaid’s brilliant sf story Keyboard Practice free online https://web.archive.org/web/20060112044109/https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/fiction/jm01.htm

#20yrsago Pledge to boycott DRM CDs https://web.archive.org/web/20060112061657/http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottdrm

#20yrsago Hollywood’s Canadian MP claims she’s no dirtier than the rest https://memex.craphound.com/2006/01/08/hollywoods-canadian-mp-claims-shes-no-dirtier-than-the-rest/

#10yrsago Gene Luen Yang’s inaugural speech as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature https://memex.craphound.com/2016/01/08/gene-luen-yangs-inaugural-speech-as-national-ambassador-for-young-peoples-literature/

#10yrsago Menstruation is the mother of invention https://lastwordonnothing.com/2016/01/07/the-wonderful-world-of-period-patents/

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