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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 24 – December 24, 2008 778 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 359 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ask HN: Review my startup

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Java is Dead; Long Live Python

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Amazon Mobile for iPhone

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 68 stories

  1. Ask HN: Review my startup

  2. Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

  3. Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

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

Show 10 more
  1. Join reddit, xkcd, dtoid, ars technica & more - donate your hacker skills to non-profits

  2. Using an automated day trader to generate income

  3. Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath

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

  5. Obscene Losses: How YouPorn is Killing the Adult Entertainment Business

  6. Lawrence Lessig: The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal

  7. 588 Kleiner Perkins iFund Applications Accidentally Published To Web

  8. Video of Investor Morten Lund at LeWeb. This guys is crazy/awesome.

  9. Markopolous' (ignored) complaint to SEC describing Madoff's fund as Ponzi scheme

  10. The fundamental problems with CSS3

Sports 27 stories

  1. How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (by the World of Goo people)

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

Show 6 more
  1. Introducing the Picwing Smart Frame (YC S08)

  2. Trolling To Win: Can trolling work better than asking for help?

  3. Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon

  4. Physics Nobel Prize Winner Steven Chu Nominated to be Secretary of Energy

  5. Official Gmail Blog: Fast PDF viewing right in your browser

  6. Ender's Game Review

Technology 581 stories

  1. Genetic A/B Testing with JavaScript

  2. Auto bailout bill dies in Senate

  3. Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

Show 9 more
  1. Love, Internet Style

  2. After Credentials

  3. The nicest math book I own

  4. Freezing cold, no Internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference

  5. The High-Res Society

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

  7. The Day Merb Joined Rails

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

  9. Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. The other half of "Artists Ship"

  2. Netflix Progress Prize Awarded

Show 6 more
  1. Roger Ebert: Celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think.

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

  3. Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits

  4. Idiomag Pushes the Envelope With Big New Music API

  5. MusicBox: a truly powerful visualization of your music library

  6. Hidden API features turn iPhone into "gaming device."

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