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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 18 – August 25, 2008 179 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 238 Get it by email ↓
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"The mission is to end oil," he says, "not create a company."

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Business 12 stories

  1. "The mission is to end oil," he says, "not create a company."

  2. My Startup project: ErrorKey.com, a tool for hackers.

  3. Jason Calacanis On How To Get PR For Your Startup: Fire Your PR Company

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  1. 11 Things Startups Should Know About Enterprise 2.0

  2. Ten Startups Debut At TechStars Demo Day

  3. DHH Interview: Ruby on Rails, Startups, Culture

  4. Another clueless CEO: Ed Colligan's Head Seems to be Stuck Somewhere

Sports 6 stories

  1. Indie game designer spent three years and $180,000 making a masterpiece

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  1. Pretending to game the system: Fans hoax "Girlfriend" vid to the #1 spot on YouTube.

  2. Keep found things found, search Delicious 2.0 on Google with WebMynd (YC Winter 08)

  3. Cilk Programing Language Wins Most Influential Award

Technology 145 stories

  1. Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained

  2. Start a side project, says GitHub founder

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  1. Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software

  2. Series AA Documents Back Online

  3. Bruce Schneier: The response to the "If you've got nothing to hide" argument

  4. Very Long-Term Backup

  5. RIAA shuts down Muxtape

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. Blockbuster CEO 'Confused by Fascination' With Netflix

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  1. Mirror test shows magpies are self aware

  2. Y Combinator Demo Day: CO2Stats, Posterous and others show their stuff

  3. Related pages widget shown on Wikipedia using Directed Edge engine

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