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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 19 – August 26, 2008 181 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 239 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

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

  3. Olympic Medal Count, Adjusted for Population and GDP

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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 7 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. Facebook game "mobwars" making $22,000 a day

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

Technology 149 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. Do you know any programmers who exhibit these personality traits?

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

  5. Very Long-Term Backup

Entertainment 5 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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