#15yrsago We Say Gay: Tennessee kids fight bill that would prohibit discussing homosexuality in school https://web.archive.org/web/20110501072834/https://wesaygay.com/

#15yrsago HOWTO build an impossible Escher perpetual motion waterfall https://www.instructables.com/Perpetual-Motion-Machine-The-real-life-version-of/

#15yrsago RIP Keith Aoki, copyfighting law prof, comics illustrator, musician and writer https://www.thepublicdomain.org/2011/04/27/rip-keith-aoki/

#5yrsago Unpack the court with judicial overrides https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/27/bruno-argento/#crisis-of-legitimacy

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#15yrsago Battleshoe https://philnoto.tumblr.com/post/4613522934/quite-busy-with-work-today-so-heres-a-little

#15yrsago Filling Paris’s potholes with knitwork https://www.flickr.com/photos/39380641@N03/albums/72157622189211405/

#15yrsago Pinhole cameras made out of hollow eggs https://www.lomography.com/magazine/71984-the-pinhegg-my-journey-to-build-an-egg-pinhole-camera

#15yrsago Canadian pro-Net Neutrality/anti-censorship/anti-surveillance party gaining support https://web.archive.org/web/20110429020845/http://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2011/04/ndp’s-new-status-as-second-runner-holding-april-26-2011/

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#25yrsago Google's now running on 8,000 Linux servers https://web.archive.org/web/20010501043429/http://www.internetweek.com/story/INW20010427S0010

#25yrsago Karl Schroeder’s Ventus in the NYT https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/29/reviews/010429.29scifit.html

#20yrsago Sony screwing artists out of iTunes royalties, customers out of first sale https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/technology/cheap-trick-allman-brothers-sue-sony-over-download-royalties.html

#20yrsago Robot Lego CD thrower can shatter discs https://www.techeblog.com/hammerhead-the-lego-cd-thrower/

#15yrsago Understanding alternative voting, with coffee and beer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtW3QkX8Xa0

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#20yrsago Frank Zappa’s anti-censorship letter https://www.flickr.com/photos/mudshark/117551768/in/set-72057594090059726/

#15yrsago Chemistry kit with no chemicals https://web.archive.org/web/20110427212354/http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/04/chemistry-set-boasts-no-chemicals.html

#15yrsago Russian corruption: crooked officials steal multi-billion-dollar company, $230M tax refund, then murder campaigning lawyer https://web.archive.org/web/20110426045152/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/20/russia_s_crime_of_the_century?

#15yrsago Golden-age short-change cons https://web.archive.org/web/20110429014539/https://blog.modernmechanix.com/2011/04/26/tricks-of-short-change-artists/

#10yrsago Campaigners search Londoners’ phones to help them understand the Snoopers Charter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szN7DlmMLYg

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#15yrsago New Zealand’s rammed-through copyright law includes mass warrantless surveillance and publication of accused’s browsing habits https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/4922854/Copyright-change-about-more-than-idle-threats

#15yrsago State Dept adding intrusive, semi-impossible questionnaire for US passport applications https://web.archive.org/web/20110427025422/https://www.consumertraveler.com/today/state-dept-wants-to-make-it-harder-to-get-a-passport/

#10yrsago A Burglar’s Guide to the City: burglary as architectural criticism https://memex.craphound.com/2016/04/25/a-burglars-guide-to-the-city-burglary-as-architectural-criticism/

#10yrsago EFF to FDA: the DMCA turns medical implants into time-bombs https://www.eff.org/files/2016/04/22/electronic_frontier_foundation_comments_cybersecurity_in_medical_devices_.pdf

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#20yrsago DMCA revision proposal will jail Americans for “attempting” infringment https://web.archive.org/web/20060502093524/https://ipaction.org/blog/2006/04/bill-hollywood-cartels-dont-want-you_24.html

#20yrsago Vista’s endless parade of warnings won’t create security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/microsoft_vista.html

#15yrsago Passover poem about robots: “When We Were Robots in Egypt” https://reactormag.com/when-we-were-robots-in-egypt/

#15yrsago Naipaul’s rules for beginning writers https://web.archive.org/web/20110508152004/http://www.indiauncut.com/iublog/article/vs-naipauls-advice-to-writers-rules-for-beginners/

#15yrsago Rules for golfing during the blitz https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/stiff-upper-lip.html

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#25yrsago Gloating NYT editorial about the dotcom crash https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/23/opinion/editorial-observer-after-the-fall-the-new-economy-goes-retro.html

#20yrsago RIAA sues family that doesn’t own a PC https://www.techshout.com/riaa-sues-local-family-without-computer-for-illegal-music-file-sharing/

#15yrsago Righthaven copyright troll loses domain https://web.archive.org/web/20110425035158/http://www.domainnamenews.com/legal-issues/righthavencom-invalid-whois/9232

#15yrsago Steampunk Venetian mask https://bob-basset.livejournal.com/160226.html

#5yrsago John Deere's dismal infosec https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/reputation-laundry/#deere-john

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