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2009-05-11
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 4 – May 11, 2009 184 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 131 Get it by email ↓
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Why there's nothing special about the business of software

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Business 8 stories

  1. Why there's nothing special about the business of software

  2. EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on par with freedom of expression

  3. Fred Wilson: The End of the IPO Drought is Coming

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  1. Bypassing the VC: Funding Your Business with Deferred Revenue

  2. Geek business myths

  3. EBay is saving archeology by killing the antiquities market

  4. Barclays hates tech startups

Sports 3 stories

  1. How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.

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  1. Nethack - Best Game Ever (2000)

  2. The Look of a Winner

Technology 165 stories

  1. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1

  2. A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages

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  1. Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

  2. Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives

  3. The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy

  4. Clojure 1.0 Released

  5. Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer

Entertainment 2 stories

  1. Frogmetrics, OMGPOP, Posterous, Scribd, Inkling, Xobni, and Loopt nominated for TiE50 Awards

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  1. Artists Commandeer (illegal) Manhattan Billboards

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