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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 27 – August 26, 2009 804 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 238 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ramen Profitable

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    A response to Dropping Django

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    What makes Erlang so great

    3 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Ramen Profitable

  2. YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

  3. Starting a Bank

  4. Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias

Show 10 more
  1. YC-Funded Flightcaster Tells You When Your Flight Is Delayed

  2. The third largest stock exchange in America is a startup

  3. YC-Funded HighlightCam Makes It Easy To Remotely Watch Babies, Pets And Burglars

  4. Eye candy is a critical business requirement

  5. Tips for Startup Companies (2006)

  6. The number one reason my startup failed

  7. Apple Expects Google Voice App Developers To Pay Refunds Out Of Pocket

  8. Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research

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

  10. Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July

Sports 22 stories

  1. Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games

  2. Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault

Show 6 more
  1. (chromium) Issue 18385: Head in place of close button

  2. Calculator hackers crack OS signing key, opening a closed platform

  3. Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future

  4. Google Wave is the new X-Windows

  5. The challenges of Creating a Civilization Web Game

  6. Tic-Tac-Toe in Erlang: Game Space Symmetries

Technology 602 stories

  1. What's Wrong With E=MC^2?

  2. Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

  3. _why is no more

Show 9 more
  1. Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms

  2. Eulogy to _why

  3. Signs that you're a bad programmer

  4. So long, and thanks for all the fish

  5. Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic

  6. Pro Git - CC licensed book on Git by Scott Chacon

  7. The Trouble with the Segway

  8. Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

  9. Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors

Entertainment 21 stories

  1. The Guide to the Freedom and Responsibility Culture at Netflix

  2. Anybots is for real: Check out Trevor's robots on the Surrogates trailer

Show 6 more
  1. Inside a Netflix Warehouse

  2. GraffitiGeo shows first augmented reality app for restaurant recommendations

  3. Netflix Prize 2

  4. What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel

  5. Radiohead Says No More Albums

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

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