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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 8 – December 8, 2008 766 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 343 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ask HN: Review my startup

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    IBM to build brain-like computers

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Geek Pop Star (Malcolm Gladwell)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Amazon CloudFront Performance Numbers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 65 stories

  1. Ask HN: Review my startup

    acruw.com · 5 outlets

  2. Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue

    balsamiq.com · 1 outlets

  3. Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  4. Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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  1. The End of Wall Street's Boom

    portfolio.com · 1 outlets

  2. How To Spot a Breakthrough: Tips from Early Amazon Investor Nick Hanauer

    xconomy.com · 1 outlets

  3. Lessons learned from a failed poker software business

    mattmazur.com · 3 outlets

  4. Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. Prosper.com, P2P Lending Startup, Shut Down by SEC [pdf]

    sec.gov · 1 outlets

  6. The world’s most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain

    royal.pingdom.com · 1 outlets

  7. Textbook Rentals Big Business - Kleiner Perkins Goes After Chegg

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  8. Startup founder evolution (or, the biz guy *is* valuable, just not at first)

    tonywright.com · 1 outlets

  9. 10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas That Made Someone Rich

    nichegeek.com · 1 outlets

  10. MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP For All

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Sports 20 stories

  1. The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct

    economist.com · 1 outlets

  2. The BaseShield App Store for Windows launches (YC Winter 08)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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  1. A Costly Parade, by Why the Lucky Stiff, and that NodeBox pong game -- in Shoes

    hackety.org · 1 outlets

  2. Baseball statistician tries politics and bats almost one thousand

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Ender's Game Review

    plover.net · 1 outlets

  4. Ticketstumbler (YC summer 08) "growing 50 percent a month"

    masshightech.com · 1 outlets

  5. Developer strikes it rich with iPhone game: Makes $250K profit in two months.

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

  6. "LoseThos" 64-bit Open Source OS: For Programming as Entertainment

    losethos.com · 1 outlets

Technology 570 stories

  1. RubyGem is from Mars, AptGet is from Venus

    googleblog.blogspot.co · 3 outlets

  2. Insider Trading, or Political Persecution?

    online.wsj.com · 3 outlets

  3. Let's End Adolescence

    businessweek.com · 1 outlets

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  1. The High-Res Society

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000

    getacoder.com · 1 outlets

  3. Ever wondered what the 'Free Public WiFi' networks you see everywhere are?

    jstn.cc · 1 outlets

  4. How people really use the iPhone

    slideshare.net · 1 outlets

  5. Python 3.0 Released

    python.org · 1 outlets

  6. The IT Contract from Hell

    itcontractor.com · 1 outlets

  7. 6 Credit Card Processing Facts Nobody Tells You

    letsfreckle.com · 1 outlets

  8. Is it going to rain?

    goingtorain.com · 1 outlets

  9. Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa

    rogeralsing.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 18 stories

  1. The other half of "Artists Ship"

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv

    newteevee.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Why thinking in the shower may be an ideal model for "creative pause"

    cameronmoll.com · 1 outlets

  3. Roger Ebert: Celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think.

    blogs.suntimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Hulu already making more money than YouTube

    mediamemo.allthingsd.c · 1 outlets

  5. Unhappy people watch TV, happy people read/socialize

    scienceblog.com · 1 outlets

  6. Auditorium: Gaming via the process of discovery and play

    playauditorium.com · 1 outlets

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