One year
Better way to organize kids’ clothing departments: Ever since our daughter’s birth, my wife Alice and I have found ourselves shopping the “boys” section of the department stores for things like pyjamas and tees and rubber boots, this being the only way to get stuff that isn’t pink, covered in glitter, hypersexualized (you should see some of the nighties they make for three year old girls!) and generally lame.
Five years
London cops finally apologise for mugging geek — four years later: In 2005, Boing Boing reported on the arrest of a London geek for the ‘crime’ of carrying a ‘bulky’ backpack (e.g., a laptop bag), wearing an ‘unseasonably warm’ coat (it was one of the coldest July days on record), and ‘avoiding the police’ (he was looking at an SMS on his phone when he went through the turnstiles and so didn’t make eye-contact with the officers there).
Ten years
Lucas put malicious Xbox trojan on Star Wars DVD: The new Star Wars bonus DVD erases elements of your Xbox’s firmware without informing you or giving you a chance to decline.