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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 27 – December 27, 2008 751 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 362 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

codinghorror.com · 1 sources

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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

    Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    How To Guarantee That Your Software Will Suck

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 65 stories

  1. Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

    codinghorror.com · 1 outlets

  2. Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

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

    xconomy.com · 1 outlets

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

    feedaneed.org · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Using an automated day trader to generate income

    fattyfatfat.com · 1 outlets

  2. Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath

    diffle-history.blogspo · 1 outlets

  3. Mibbit: One year old, and profitable

    blog.mibbit.com · 1 outlets

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

    portfolio.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 2 outlets

  6. 588 Kleiner Perkins iFund Applications Accidentally Published To Web

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    ustream.tv · 1 outlets

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

    scribd.com · 1 outlets

  9. The fundamental problems with CSS3

    mattwilcox.net · 1 outlets

  10. Funeral director had $250 million stash of IBM stock

    portfolio.com · 1 outlets

Sports 26 stories

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

    gamasutra.com · 1 outlets

  2. Introducing the Picwing Smart Frame (YC S08)

    picwing.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    bash.org · 2 outlets

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

    2dboy.com · 1 outlets

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

    blogs.discovermagazine · 1 outlets

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

    gmailblog.blogspot.com · 1 outlets

  5. "Text editors should take a lesson from video games."

    ozmm.org · 1 outlets

  6. Fed refuses to disclose recipients of $2 trillion

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Technology 562 stories

  1. Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa

    rogeralsing.com · 3 outlets

  2. Auto bailout bill dies in Senate

    cnn.com · 2 outlets

  3. Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

    engadget.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Internet sites could be given 'cinema-style age ratings', UK Culture Secretary says

    youtube.com · 2 outlets

  2. After Credentials

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  3. The nicest math book I own

    math-blog.com · 1 outlets

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

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

  5. The High-Res Society

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  6. The Day Merb Joined Rails

    yehudakatz.com · 5 outlets

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

    jstn.cc · 1 outlets

  8. Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

    smashingmagazine.com · 4 outlets

  9. Python 3.0 Released

    python.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. The other half of "Artists Ship"

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. Netflix Progress Prize Awarded

    biz.yahoo.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    blogs.suntimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    playauditorium.com · 1 outlets

  3. Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  4. Idiomag Pushes the Envelope With Big New Music API

    readwriteweb.com · 1 outlets

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

    crunchgear.com · 1 outlets

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

    appleinsider.com · 1 outlets

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