This Day in Blogging History: Open "Life in the UK" handbook; Tiananmen Square, + 20; Bradbury v Fahrenheit 9/11

One year ago today

Public Resource liberates "Life in the UK" book, building codes: If you would like to be a citizen of the United Kingdom, you need to study a book called Life in the UK. The book is published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, which is part of the amazingly well run National Archives. These are the folks that run legislation.gov.uk, the best legislative reference site in the world. Life in the UK has the kind of open license one has come to expect for government information, so we asked our friends at the Rural Design Cooperative to take a stab at creating an open version

Five years ago today

Tiananmen Square, + 20:
Rebecca MacKinnon of Global Voices has been tweeting a number of noteworthy items related to today marking the 20th year since the massacre at Tiananmen Square in China.

Ten years ago today
Bradbury goes nuts over Fahrenheit 9/11 title: Ray Bradbury has ripped into Michael Moore, calling him an "asshole" for "stealing" the title for Fahrenheit 9/11 from Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451.

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