This Day in Blogging History: Safeway's horrible, copyrighted cakes; Stross's Heinleinian robopervy extravaganza; Swedish woodlands butter-footgear mystery

Cory Doctorow 5:37 pm Sun Nov 10, 2013

One year ago today

Safeway: "Stop photographing our horrible, copyrighted cakes": CakeWrecks reports that a local Safeway bakery has banned all photography in its bakery department.

Five years ago today

Saturn's Children: Stross's robopervy tribute to the late late Heinlein: Saturn's Children is the story of Freya, a sex-bot who was engineered (along with her untold legion of near-identical, near-immortal sisters) to be the perfect pleasure-toy for human masters. Unfortunately, the human race went extinct before Freya was ever booted up, leaving her (and the rest of the robots that comprise galactic civilization) with no purpose in life.

Ten years ago today
Swedish woodlands butter-footgear shock horror:
Swedish hikers discovered 70 pairs of shoes in the woods, each pair filled with butter.

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