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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 26 – February 25, 2009 782 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 56 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startups in 13 Sentences

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1Articles

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Things you may not know about jQuery

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Better lighting for your computer

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 60 stories

  1. Startups in 13 Sentences

  2. Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: Things We Learned the Hard Way (by Posterous S08)

  3. How Not to Pitch to a Startup

  4. Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0

Show 10 more
  1. That 'Electronic Bank Run'? Didn't happen.

  2. Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding

  3. Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog Creek

  4. Y Combinator putting on special event called AngelConf for would-be investors

  5. The new reality: Ticketstumbler ($15,000 in funding) vs Fansnap ($10.5 million)

  6. Chris Wanstrath's Startup Riot keynote text

  7. Why We're Probably in For a Long Recession

  8. The Story of My Startup.

  9. Mibbit (axod's startup) video featured on Google Code Blog

  10. Want To Be A Startup CEO? Better Learn How To Code.

Sports 27 stories

  1. Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for

  2. Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants, Video Games, Music, & Meditation

Show 6 more
  1. How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery

  2. LÖVE - a 2D game engine for rapid game development in Lua

  3. Tracking an entire Windows sytem inside Git

  4. How to game the U.S. higher-education system

  5. IPhone Game iShoot earns the Developer $600K in a month

  6. Ask HN: Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game

Technology 571 stories

  1. PyML: machine learning in Python

  2. Alex Payne: The Problem With Email Clients

  3. Introducing Mozilla Bespin, a Canvas-based IDE

Show 9 more
  1. Google Quietly Laying Off Engineers

  2. Wikipedia list of algorithms

  3. Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

  4. Some things need to change

  5. Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout

  6. Keep Your Identity Small

  7. Things you may not know about jQuery

  8. How Not To Sort By Average Rating

  9. New Product From 280North: Atlas

Entertainment 19 stories

  1. I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.

  2. Mindfuck Movies

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  1. Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect

  2. Former NiN Drummer Takes Album Promotion A Step Further

  3. Why Hulu Should Embrace Boxee

  4. Study Shows Why Sleep is Needed to Form Memories

  5. Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator

  6. Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows

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