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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 14 – December 14, 2009 796 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 348 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    How Python is killing Lisp

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    An open letter to Eric Schmidt

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    There is a certain inevitability to life.

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?

  2. The best questions we got while raising venture capital

  3. Time-lapse map of unemployment rates by U.S. county during recession

  4. HD Videos from Startup Bootcamp at MIT now online

Show 10 more
  1. Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade

  2. Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering

  3. Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times

  4. CrunchPad Federal Lawsuit Filed; Some Additional Thoughts

  5. Startup ideas

  6. Matt Brezina: No One Cares About Your Stupid Little Startup

  7. FlightCaster (YC S09) Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API

  8. Geeks trump alpha males on Wall Street

  9. Smashing the stack for fun and profit

  10. Cryptographic voting system developed by MIT prof has first real world trial

Sports 27 stories

  1. A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome

  2. Continuity - a clever flash puzzle game

Show 6 more
  1. Canabalt: iPhone Game

  2. Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos

  3. How Pinball Ate itself: The Economics of Pinball

  4. At peak, Spain gets 53% of its energy from wind

  5. Flixel: flash game framework

  6. Health Insurers Pay Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency To Oppose Reform Bill

Technology 609 stories

  1. Don Dodge hired by Google

  2. Web Developers Are Stupid and Arrogant

  3. Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad

Show 9 more
  1. Amazon Introduces Bidding for CPU Time (Spot Instances)

  2. Apple's Mistake

  3. The End Of The CrunchPad

  4. There is a certain inevitability to life.

  5. One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar

  6. Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr

  7. How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves

  8. Why I gave away my company to charity

  9. Your looks and your inbox

Entertainment 15 stories

  1. Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries

  2. Wattvision (YC W09) Shows The Power Of Simple, Realtime Energy Monitoring

Show 6 more
  1. Spotify artists earn $167 per 1 million plays.

  2. Gaming the System

  3. Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them

  4. Jobs to The Little App Factory: Name change “Not that big of a deal”

  5. Walt Disney Creative Org Chart

  6. Baumol's Cost Disease: Why Artists are Always Poor

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