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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 7 – May 14, 2009 193 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 134 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Obama proposes no capital gains tax on qualified small business stock

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Business 10 stories

  1. Obama proposes no capital gains tax on qualified small business stock

  2. Idiot CEOs

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

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

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

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

  4. Apple has made less than $45m in revenue from the app store

Sports 3 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

Technology 167 stories

  1. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1

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

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  1. HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old

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

  3. Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to Wolfram Alpha (screencast)

  4. Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

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

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. Wolfram Alpha to Launch Live on Justin.TV

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  1. We need both engineers and artists in programming

  2. Hulu, a Victim of Its Own Success?

  3. Artists Commandeer (illegal) Manhattan Billboards

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