#15yrsago Scary Godmother: delightful, spooky graphic storybook for kids https://memex.craphound.com/2010/10/20/scary-godmother-delightful-spooky-graphic-storybook-for-kids/

#10yrsago The Welcome to Night Vale novel dances a tightrope between weird humor and real pathos https://memex.craphound.com/2015/10/20/the-welcome-to-night-vale-novel-dances-a-tightrope-between-weird-humor-and-real-pathos/

#10yrsago How a lobbyist/doctor couple are destroying Worker’s Comp across America https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-corporate-americas-plan-to-ditch-workers-comp

#10yrsago How the market for zero-day vulnerabilities works https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/the-rise-of-the-zero-day-market/

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#20yrsago WSJ tech writer damns DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20051027023456/http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20051020.html

#20yrsago Fundraiser: donate $500 to shut up loudmouth message-board poster https://www.metafilter.com/dios-rothkofundraiser.mefi

#20yrsago Chinese activist to Jerry Yang: You are helping to maintain an evil system https://web.archive.org/web/20051027021122/https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/gelman/archives/003388.shtml/

#15yrsago Canadian gov’t scientists protest gag order, go straight to public with own website https://web.archive.org/web/20101020142208/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/federal-scientists-go-public-in-face-of-restrictive-media-rules/article1761624/

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#15yrsago NYPD won’t disclose what it does with its secret military-grade X-ray vans https://web.archive.org/web/20151017212024/http://www.nyclu.org/news/nypd-unlawfully-hiding-x-ray-van-use-city-neighborhoods-nyclu-argues

#10yrsago The International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo: greatly improved, but something important has been lost https://back-then.tumblr.com/post/131407456141/the-international-concatenated-order-of-hoo-hoo

#5yrsago Happy World Standards Day or not https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/18/middle-gauge-muddle/#aoc-flex

#5yrsago Amazon returns end up in landfills https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/16/lucky-ducky/#landfillers

#5yrsago UK to tax Amazon's victims https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/16/lucky-ducky/#amazon-tax

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#15yrsago HOWTO Make Mummy Meatloaf https://web.archive.org/web/20101022232509/http://gatherandnest.com/?p=2848

#15yrsago HOWTO catch drilling-dust with a folded Post-It https://cheezburger.com/4078311936

#10yrsago White supremacists call for Star Wars boycott because imaginary brown people https://www.themarysue.com/boycott-star-wars-vii-because-why-again/

#10yrsago In upsidedownland, Verizon upheld its fiber broadband promises to 14 cities https://www.techdirt.com/2015/10/19/close-only-counts-horseshoes-hand-grenades-apparently-verizons-fiber-optic-installs/

#10yrsago Survivor-count for the Chicago PD’s black-site/torture camp climbs to 7,000+ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands

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#15yrsago Help wanted: anti-terrorism intern for Disney https://web.archive.org/web/20151015182237/http://thewaltdisneycompany.jobs/burbank-ca/global-intelligence-analyst-intern-corporate-spring-2016/408543725E4D48B196C01CAEEE602D36/job/

#15yrsago Rudy Rucker remembers Benoit Mandelbrot https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2010/10/16/remembering-benoit-mandelbrot/

#15yrsago Verminous Dickens cake banned from Melbourne cake show https://web.archive.org/web/20101019004804/https://hothamstreetladies.blogspot.com/2010/09/contraband-cake.html

#15yrsago English Heritage claims it owns every single image of Stonehenge, ever https://blog.fotolibra.com/2010/10/19/stonewalling-stonehenge/

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#15yrsago Help wanted: anti-terrorism intern for Disney https://web.archive.org/web/20151015182237/http://thewaltdisneycompany.jobs/burbank-ca/global-intelligence-analyst-intern-corporate-spring-2016/408543725E4D48B196C01CAEEE602D36/job/

#15yrsago Rudy Rucker remembers Benoit Mandelbrot https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2010/10/16/remembering-benoit-mandelbrot/

#15yrsago Verminous Dickens cake banned from Melbourne cake show https://web.archive.org/web/20101019004804/https://hothamstreetladies.blogspot.com/2010/09/contraband-cake.html

#15yrsago English Heritage claims it owns every single image of Stonehenge, ever https://blog.fotolibra.com/2010/10/19/stonewalling-stonehenge/

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#15yrsago Prentiss County, Mississippi Jail requires all inmates to have a Bible, regardless of faith https://web.archive.org/web/20061119033010/https://www.prentisscountysheriff.com/jail.aspx

#15yrsago Early distributed computing video, 1959, prefigures the net https://archive.org/details/AllAboutPolymorphics

#15yrsago Furniture made from rusted Soviet naval mines https://web.archive.org/web/20150206045826/https://marinemine.com/

#15yrsago G20 Toronto cop who was afraid of girl blowing soap bubbles sues YouTube for “ridicule” https://web.archive.org/web/20101019001110/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/officer-bubbles-launches-suit-against-youtube/article1760214/

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#15yrsago Prentiss County, Mississippi Jail requires all inmates to have a Bible, regardless of faith https://web.archive.org/web/20061119033010/https://www.prentisscountysheriff.com/jail.aspx

#15yrsago Early distributed computing video, 1959, prefigures the net https://archive.org/details/AllAboutPolymorphics

#15yrsago Furniture made from rusted Soviet naval mines https://web.archive.org/web/20150206045826/https://marinemine.com/

#15yrsago G20 Toronto cop who was afraid of girl blowing soap bubbles sues YouTube for “ridicule” https://web.archive.org/web/20101019001110/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/officer-bubbles-launches-suit-against-youtube/article1760214/

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#20yrsago Dear ASCAP: May I sing Happy Birthday for my dad’s 75th? https://web.archive.org/web/20051024004347/https://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/09/happy_birthday.html

#20yrsago 100 oldest .COM names in the registry https://web.archive.org/web/20051024020147/http://www.jottings.com/100-oldest-dot-com-domains.htm

#15yrsago Koja’s UNDER THE POPPY: dark, epic and erotic novel of war and intrigue https://memex.craphound.com/2010/10/18/kojas-under-the-poppy-dark-epic-and-erotic-novel-of-war-and-intrigue/

#15yrsago Ray Ozzie leaves Microsoft https://www.salon.com/2010/10/19/microsoft_roy_ozzie/

#15yrsago Google Book Search will never have an effective competitor https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1417722

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#15yrsago Every terrible thing Canada’s Stephen Harper government has done in the past four years https://24percentmajority.blogspot.com/2015/10/2011-2015-harper-government-wrap-up.html

#10yrsago 1980: the Director of the FBI mixes up KISS & The Who, confusing the hell out of FBI agents https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/oct/15/fbi-files-kiss/

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#15yrsago Kevin Kelly’s WHAT TECHNOLOGY WANTS: how technology changes us and vice-versa https://memex.craphound.com/2010/10/13/kevin-kellys-what-technology-wants-how-technology-changes-us-and-vice-versa/

#10yrsago TPP requires countries to destroy security-testing tools (and your laptop) https://web.archive.org/web/20151020122940/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/white-hat-hackers-would-have-their-devices-destroyed-under-the-tpp

#10yrsago How to make “Dracula’s dentures” cookie sandwiches https://www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/draculas-dentures-for-halloween/

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#15yrsago Webcam spying school settles with students, pays $1.2M in fees and damages https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39631890

#15yrsago Rucker and Sterling’s new story: “Goodnight Moon” on Tor.com https://web.archive.org/web/20101016231350/http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/10/good-night-moon

#15yrsago Wonderful Japanese pudding ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sEI1AUFJKw

#15yrsago Anatomical illustrations from Japan’s Edo period https://pinktentacle.com/2010/10/anatomical-illustrations-from-edo-period-japan/

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#20yrsago Understanding broadband regulation https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=557330

#20yrsago Anti-game wacko designs ultra-violent video game to prove games are violent https://web.archive.org/web/20051030003500/http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=5883

#20yrsago Gilberto Gil in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/oct/14/brazil.popandrock

#15yrsago BoomCases: self-powered amps built into old suitcases https://theboomcase.wordpress.com/gallery/

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