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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 6 – May 13, 2009 185 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 133 Get it by email ↓
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Why there's nothing special about the business of software

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Business 6 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. The App Store Is a Classic Example Of A Broken Business Process

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  1. Sony CEO: "If we had gone with Open Technology ... we would have beaten Apple"

  2. The Post Mortem of a Venture-backed Start-up

  3. Barclays hates tech startups

Sports 4 stories

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

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  1. Nethack - Best Game Ever (2000)

  2. In Attics and Closets, 'Biohackers' Discover Their Inner Frankenstein

  3. 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. Don’t! The secret of self-control

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

  3. Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

  4. A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education

  5. Amazon releases the rumoured large-screen Kindle

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. We need both engineers and artists in programming

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  1. Hulu, a Victim of Its Own Success?

  2. Artists Commandeer (illegal) Manhattan Billboards

  3. Justin.tv: Hundreds of channels, nothing on.

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