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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 5 – October 5, 2010 782 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 278 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Security Lessons Learned From The Diaspora Launch

    6 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt.

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie

  2. Founding a startup with zero revenue is better than working for Goldman Sachs

  3. Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

  4. Job Titles That Can Sink Your Startup

Show 10 more
  1. How a startup responds when a giant arrives

  2. First improvement of fundamental algorithm in 10 years

  3. How I launched a profitable minimally viable product in 3 hours

  4. Zynga CEO: "Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."

  5. Rate our startup: Challenge.gov

  6. Matt Cutts gives you a free startup idea

  7. Google's CEO: 'The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists'

  8. Are your pants lying to you? An investigation

  9. A blackhat social engineered me by posing as an early adopter of my startup

  10. Free, high-quality legal docs to get your startup started

Sports 24 stories

  1. What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control officer's questions

  2. $250,000-a-day Minecraft strikes indie game gold

Show 6 more
  1. AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch

  2. Dear Twitter: Stop screwing over your developers

  3. Biolab Disaster - an HTML5 Game (plus Making-Of Video)

  4. Thanks for the feedback. I've closed the service

  5. Bouncing Beholder: JS1k winner explained

  6. Drawing you a horrible logo for only $5

Technology 599 stories

  1. Hacker News Instant Search

  2. Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

  3. Russia Uses Microsoft to Suppress Dissent

Show 9 more
  1. Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

  2. (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))

  3. Stop the Internet Blacklist

  4. The Very Last Thing I’ll Write About Twitter

  5. Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

  6. Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions

  7. So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…

  8. Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site

  9. What Happens At Y Combinator

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Museopen to set classical music "free"

  2. As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door

Show 6 more
  1. Homemade spacecraft reaches 100,000 ft, films the whole way

  2. Music notation in HTML5/SVG

  3. Wheretheladies.at Shows You Where The Ladies Are At

  4. Ex-Mahalo contractors filing a class action lawsuit against Jason Calacanis

  5. Why Our Schools Suck, The Movie

  6. Show HN: Koi - a programming language that teaches language implementation.

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