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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 12 – January 11, 2009 737 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 02 · Issue 11 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

    Dear Reddit, Hacker News...

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Charlie Rose - An hour with Bill Gates

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 63 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. Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants

    joelonsoftware.com · 1 outlets

  4. Mibbit: One year old, and profitable

    blog.mibbit.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan

    philip.greenspun.com · 1 outlets

  2. Startup lessons from serial entrepreneur Norm Brodsky

    inc.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    aws.typepad.com · 1 outlets

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

    ustream.tv · 1 outlets

  6. Was whole economy a Ponzi scheme?

    scribd.com · 2 outlets

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

    lessig.org · 1 outlets

  8. Things to consider before launching a startup (or) Sometimes it's not so fun

    blog.penelopetrunk.com · 1 outlets

  9. For all of you small business owners, you can relate to this

    fivemilliondots.com · 1 outlets

  10. The fundamental problems with CSS3

    mattwilcox.net · 1 outlets

Sports 29 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. Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Beta as a Free Download

    blog.wired.com · 1 outlets

  4. Xobni Closes $7 Million Series B Financing

    xobni.com · 1 outlets

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

    gmailblog.blogspot.com · 1 outlets

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

    ozmm.org · 1 outlets

Technology 559 stories

  1. The $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme

    radar.oreilly.com · 3 outlets

  2. Firefox: An Acceptable Cross Platform GUI Toolkit

    ynniv.com · 2 outlets

  3. Steve Jobs speaks out about his health

    engadget.com · 4 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. A “short squeeze” sounds innocuous enough...

    radian.org · 1 outlets

  2. So you want to be a consultant?

    unixwiz.net · 1 outlets

  3. How Much I Money Made From Side Projects In 2008

    pseudocoder.com · 2 outlets

  4. After Credentials

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  5. Potion - a little fast OO language by _why

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. The nicest math book I own

    math-blog.com · 1 outlets

  7. The Day Merb Joined Rails

    yehudakatz.com · 4 outlets

  8. Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

    smashingmagazine.com · 2 outlets

  9. Time management tricks I learned from years of hating Tim Ferris (of the 4 hour work week)

    blog.penelopetrunk.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Man analyses cause of bad TV reception, finds his TV is de facto radar

    frisnit.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog

    crunchgear.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

  2. Amazon's Best-Selling Album Download of 2008 Was Available for Free

    readwriteweb.com · 1 outlets

  3. Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  4. Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  5. Ask HN: Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music

    mugasha.com · 1 outlets

  6. Music Startups to Watch in 2009

    sachinrekhi.com · 1 outlets

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