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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 30 – April 29, 2009 798 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 119 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Thoughts on the Y Combinator interview process

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Zappos

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Google Code now supports Mercurial

    3 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 56 stories

  1. American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all

    printthis.clickability · 2 outlets

  2. Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)

    hnstartups.com · 1 outlets

  3. Google Ventures

    google.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Banker Who Said No

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Water Front Apt. in San Mateo will trade for equity in Y Combinator startup

    sfbay.craigslist.org · 1 outlets

  2. Hacking for fun and profit with Mathematica and the Google Analytics API

    collison.ie · 1 outlets

  3. Teach Yourself Fundamentals of Math (Reasoning, Logic, Sets, Induction, Complex Numbers)

    math.umass.edu · 1 outlets

  4. Followup on the $18000 StockArt.com story

    thelogofactory.com · 1 outlets

  5. Obama Unveils Plan to Fund High-Speed Passenger Rail

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  6. Silicon Graphics Declares Bankruptcy and Sells Itself For $25 Million

    techcrunchit.com · 1 outlets

  7. Underbelly: What haughty startup bloggers don't tell you

    blog.asmartbear.com · 2 outlets

  8. Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss talk about Startups, Angel Investing, YC and Traffic/Conversions

    vimeo.com · 1 outlets

  9. Fred Wilson on investing in Geocities

    avc.com · 1 outlets

  10. Apple Posts Its Best Second Quarter Earnings Ever

    thestandard.com · 2 outlets

Sports 33 stories

  1. Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  2. Pirate Bay officially loses case

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

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  1. How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll

    musicmachinery.com · 1 outlets

  2. Ron Garret: How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career.

    coding.derkeiler.com · 1 outlets

  3. We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (2004)

    kuro5hin.org · 1 outlets

  4. Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down.

    chronicle.com · 1 outlets

  5. Microsoft's Windows 7 Starter is a gift to Google

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

  6. A few comments on pandemic influenza

    fluidinfo.com · 1 outlets

Technology 597 stories

  1. Functional programming with python

    us.pycon.org · 5 outlets

  2. Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala

    ikaisays.com · 6 outlets

  3. Wolfram Alpha: Our First Impressions

    cyber.law.harvard.edu · 3 outlets

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  1. Google Code now supports Mercurial

    google-code-updates.bl · 5 outlets

  2. Oracle to buy Sun

    sun.com · 1 outlets

  3. Google uncloaks once-secret server

    news.cnet.com · 1 outlets

  4. Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000

    jonengle.com · 1 outlets

  5. Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations.

    thelocal.se · 1 outlets

  6. Support The Founder Visa at Whitehouse2.org

    paulgraham.com · 2 outlets

  7. It’s very easy to underprice your product

    paulbuchheit.blogspot. · 2 outlets

  8. Five Founders

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  9. Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise

    inc.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 19 stories

  1. Just in case anyone is still using YouTube for music

    grooveshark.com · 1 outlets

  2. How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job

    savingadvice.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong

    steveblank.com · 1 outlets

  2. "Nothing like this will be built again" - A Nuclear Reactor Tour

    antipope.org · 1 outlets

  3. Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. A movie recommendation service that actually works

    nanocrowd.com · 1 outlets

  5. Update: DiggBar will only be shown to logged-in Digg users

    blog.digg.com · 1 outlets

  6. Pixar’s Latest Film Has Wall Street on Edge

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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