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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 6 – January 5, 2009 745 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 02 · Issue 5 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

codinghorror.com · 1 sources

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Dear Reddit, Hacker News...

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Five Strangest Programming Languages

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 68 stories

  1. Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

    codinghorror.com · 1 outlets

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

    feedaneed.org · 1 outlets

  3. Using an automated day trader to generate income

    fattyfatfat.com · 1 outlets

  4. Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath

    diffle-history.blogspo · 1 outlets

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  1. Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants

    joelonsoftware.com · 1 outlets

  2. Mibbit: One year old, and profitable

    blog.mibbit.com · 1 outlets

  3. Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan

    philip.greenspun.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. Startup lessons from serial entrepreneur Norm Brodsky

    inc.com · 1 outlets

  7. Large Form iPod Touch To Launch in Fall ‘09

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  8. Startup now 100% on AWS (they're using AMQP, PostgreSQL, pgpool-II and Rails)

    aws.typepad.com · 1 outlets

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

    ustream.tv · 1 outlets

  10. Was whole economy a Ponzi scheme?

    scribd.com · 2 outlets

Sports 27 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. Coding Horror: Finishing The Game

    codinghorror.com · 1 outlets

Technology 565 stories

  1. Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa

    rogeralsing.com · 4 outlets

  2. Auto bailout bill dies in Senate

    cnn.com · 2 outlets

  3. Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

    engadget.com · 4 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    youtube.com · 2 outlets

  2. So you want to be a consultant?

    unixwiz.net · 1 outlets

  3. After Credentials

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  4. The nicest math book I own

    math-blog.com · 1 outlets

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

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

  6. The Day Merb Joined Rails

    yehudakatz.com · 4 outlets

  7. Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

    smashingmagazine.com · 4 outlets

  8. Dear Reddit, Hacker News...

    zedshaw.com · 4 outlets

  9. Five Strangest Programming Languages

    aegisub.net · 4 outlets

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Netflix Progress Prize Awarded

    biz.yahoo.com · 1 outlets

  2. Enjoying the show, avoiding the flamethrower: life inside Apple

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy

    torrentfreak.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. Is your Netflix queue destroying the environment?

    slate.com · 1 outlets

  5. Idiomag Pushes the Envelope With Big New Music API

    readwriteweb.com · 1 outlets

  6. Wetware Refactorings

    moserware.com · 1 outlets

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