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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 9 – August 16, 2009 178 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 228 Get it by email ↓
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Startup Tips from the Notorious BIG

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Business 8 stories

  1. Startup Tips from the Notorious BIG

  2. Springboard. A new incubator (in Cambridge, UK), takes no equity.

  3. 2009 Startup School, October 24 at Berkeley

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  1. On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study

  2. YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash Of Augmented Reality

  3. Why Portland is a great place for startups

  4. The United States is not the nation of small businesses

Sports 4 stories

  1. Google Wave is the new X-Windows

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  1. The challenges of Creating a Civilization Web Game

  2. Deletionists slowing Wikipedia's growth

  3. Engineering Windows 7: What we do with a bug report?

Technology 145 stories

  1. Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

  2. R.I.P. Les Paul

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  1. How American Health Care Killed My Father

  2. TED Talk: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success

  3. Forget Starbucks, work at the library instead

  4. Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony?

  5. Self-Enforcing Protocols

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. GraffitiGeo shows first augmented reality app for restaurant recommendations

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  1. What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel

  2. Radiohead Says No More Albums

  3. Sketchbooks aren't about being a good artist, they're about being a good thinker

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