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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 16 – August 23, 2010 192 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 235 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses everywhere

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Business 17 stories

  1. A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses everywhere

  2. Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hipmunk (YC S10)

  3. How angel investors are destroying young gullible programming talent

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  1. 2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford

  2. Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape His Permanent Record

  3. The Stock Market Is Still for Suckers

  4. Android is a Viable Revenue Stream - Advanced Task Manager application

Sports 3 stories

  1. Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium

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  1. Skype Loses Engineering Chief (possibly due to TechCrunch commenters?)

  2. Google shows the Future of Browser Games

Technology 162 stories

  1. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape

  2. Practical Tips on Starting Your Own Company

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  1. Why GNU grep is Fast

  2. Wired's bullshit "The web is dead" graph

  3. This document is confidential

  4. Why Free Plans Don’t Work

  5. The Start-up from Hell

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. Teevox (YC S10) Turns Your iPhone Into A Computer TV Remote Control

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  1. Gaming Foursquare with 9 lines of Perl

  2. Newly discovered jazz recordings show why copyright laws need to be revisited

  3. 2010 Fields Medal Awarded

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