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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 20 – September 19, 2009 837 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 262 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

IBM takes first 3D image of atomic bonds

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Naming characters with Google AdWords

    10 of 30 days · 11 articles

  2. Technology

    Why Apple Nixed My iPhone App

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    More things that don't make sense

    4 of 30 days · 7 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. IBM takes first 3D image of atomic bonds

  2. Starting a Bank

  3. Snaptalent Lesson One: Know Your Market

  4. The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil

Show 10 more
  1. Eye candy is a critical business requirement

  2. Tips for Startup Companies (2006)

  3. The number one reason my startup failed

  4. Free the H-1Bs, Free the Economy

  5. The trouble with non-profits

  6. When It Comes To Founding Successful Startups, Old Guys Rule

  7. The Best Deal In Startup Land

  8. Android Market Sales data: pitiful $64/day for a Top 5 app

  9. TC50 Backstage: Why PG Was Mean and Which YC Companies Will IPO

  10. Y Combinator - Startup Library as Single pdf (12 MB)

Sports 19 stories

  1. Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games

  2. John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace "wins" Lunar Lander Challenge [video]

Show 6 more
  1. Google Releases A Nuke. Apple Won’t Win This Fight.

  2. Switching to Linux: A Windows developer’s view

  3. How to use game theory to buy a car

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

  5. Critical: Vulnerabilities in Windows TCP/IP Could Allow Remote Code Execution

  6. Properly Molding the Gamer Child

Technology 641 stories

  1. Upgrading to Snow Leopard

  2. Create a font from your own handwriting

  3. Writing a DSL with Python

Show 9 more
  1. Norman Borlaug on Organic Farming

  2. Naming characters with Google AdWords

  3. Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

  4. More things that don't make sense

  5. Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us

  6. Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

  7. The bar for success in our industry is too low

  8. Mint founder on Silicon Valley

  9. Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. The fallacy in the Netflix algorithm

  2. Justin.tv is holding a hack day at Y Combinator

Show 6 more
  1. _why: "Not all code needs to be a factory, some of it can just be origami."

  2. Coding Scheme Live, to Music

  3. Pimp My Code, Part 16: On Heuristics and Human Factors

  4. Disney to Acquire Marvel Entertainment

  5. Tell HN: Paul Graham on TC50 panel, streaming live

  6. James Cameron's Avatar trailer posted

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