#20yrsago Pitcairn rapists convicted but not jailed https://www.smh.com.au/world/six-pitcairn-men-guilty-of-rape-and-assaults-20041026-gdjzlz.html

#20yrsago Build a $100 GNU/Linux machine https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/04/10/25/2337253/how-cheap-can-a-pc-be

#15yrsago On the literary and scholarly awesomeness of the timezone file https://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzoneinfotz-database/

#10yrsago Canadian MPs improvised spears to fight off shooter while PM Harper hid in the closet https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-attack-mps-fashioned-spears-while-harper-hid-in-closet/article21278580/

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#20yrsago For sale: action against bloggers https://web.archive.org/web/20041103065814/http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/010962.shtml#010962

#15yrsago US Department of Defense adopts “open source guidelines” https://powdermonkey.blogs.com/powdermonkey/2009/10/department-of-defense-new-guidance-on-open-source-software.html

#15yrsago Brit business secretary promises to punish accused file-sharers’ families with Internet disconnection by 2011 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/oct/28/mandelson-date-blocking-filesharers-connections

#10yrsago @2600 magazine profiled in the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/print-magazine-hackers

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#20yrsago Disney sued by “inventor” of FastPass system https://web.archive.org/web/20041101023537/http://www.patentlyobviousblog.com/2004/10/patent_suit_all.html

#15yrsago Mickey Mouse comics drawn by concentration camp prisoner https://web.archive.org/web/20091103172853/http://www.scribd.com/doc/21860527/Horst-Rosenthal-Mickey-Mouse-in-Gurs

#15yrsago UK ISP TalkTalk threatens lawsuit over 3-strikes disconnection proposal https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/oct/29/talktalk-threatens-legal-action-mandelson

#15yrsago My Times editorial on British plan to cut relatives of accused infringers off from the net https://www.thetimes.com/article/denying-physics-wont-save-the-video-stars-wf52wrrs2r0

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#20yrsago @GreatDismal on ObL tape https://web.archive.org/web/20041016033110/https://williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2004_10_01_archive.asp#109907889910593617

#20yrsago Apple to iPod owners: “Eat shit and die” https://memex.craphound.com/2004/10/30/apple-to-ipod-owners-eat-shit-and-die-updated/

#15yrsago Hallowe’en is safe, your kids are safe, the only scary thing is the warnings https://www.huffpost.com/entry/as-goes-halloween-so-goes_b_340163

#15yrsago Homebrew backyard railroad recreates Disneyland https://web.archive.org/web/20091208070906/http://cptrr.webs.com/

#15yrsago Gang steals phone wires out from under English roads https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/8333774.stm

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#20yrsago Bhutan: World’s biggest book https://kottke.org/04/10/bhutan-book

#20yrsago Audio/transcript from BBC Creative Archive talk https://web.archive.org/web/20060306155902/http://digital-lifestyles.info/media/audio/2004.10.28-BBC-Creative-Archive-Q&A.mp3

#15yrsago Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/illegal-downloaders-spend-the-most-on-music-says-poll-1812776.html

#15yrsago Scenting the Dark: outstanding debut short story collection from Mary Robinette Kowal, exploring our relationship to technology and each other https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/01/scenting-the-dark-outstanding-debut-short-story-collection-from-mary-robinette-kowal-exploring-our-relationship-to-technology-and-each-other/

#15yrsago Anti-vaccine fear versus science https://web.archive.org/web/20091022235649/https://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience/all/1

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#20yrsago Diebold voting machines hacked https://web.archive.org/web/20041102084048/http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78#breaking

#15yrsago Newspaper columnist quits over paywall https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/business/media/02elderly.html

#15yrsago Congressional record exposes military officers to identity theft, covers up https://web.archive.org/web/20100506125320/http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/foia/gov.ftc_20081117_from.pdf

#15yrsago Hallowe’en night out as floppy disk and XKCD Cory https://www.flickr.com/photos/24876360@N03/4068253019/in/photostream/

#15yrsago Mechanical computer uses matchboxes and beans to learn Tic-Tac-Toe http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/menace/

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