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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 7 – December 7, 2010 798 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 49 · Issue 341 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Editing Google Docs in Emacs

    7 of 30 days · 12 articles

  2. Technology

    Programming from the Ground Up Book

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    What It's Like to Work at Apple

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)

  2. BankSimple Launches Preview Site

  3. How I Incorporated My Startup

  4. The best investment advice you'll never get

Show 10 more
  1. Battle of the Business Cards

  2. An Open Letter To Business People

  3. Small startup hits Google paydirt

  4. Startup Lessons, Courtesy of United Airlines’ Crappy Customer Service

  5. How being a bully fuels this trader's profits because of Google

  6. How much startup stock options are worth

  7. Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

  8. How to destroy your business with one email

  9. WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal in Early 2011

  10. Lifetime Mixpanel.com Startup Plan - $17

Sports 31 stories

  1. ⌘Q is too damn close to ⌘W

  2. Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.

Show 6 more
  1. Close the Washington Monument

  2. A Google Interviewing Story

  3. Sailing dead downwind faster than the wind. Impossible, but they did it.

  4. An umbrella designed using aerodynamic theory to withstand 100km/h winds

  5. AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Basketball Team

  6. Google AI Challenge Winner Post-Mortem

Technology 596 stories

  1. Scott Adams: FaceBook Killer

  2. Things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee

  3. The Ruby Stdlib is a Ghetto

Show 9 more
  1. Apache declares war on Oracle over Java

  2. Lisp compiler in 89 lines of Python

  3. Amazon no longer hosts wikileaks

  4. Google Beatbox

  5. Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?

  6. Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies

  7. Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

  8. The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard

  9. The Airport Security Grope

Entertainment 18 stories

  1. Comcast demands Level 3 pay fee to deliver online movies to their subscribers

  2. According to the IRS you are a private contractor employed by Google

Show 6 more
  1. Mathematical explanation of music and white/black notes in a piano

  2. What kind of traffic is driven by a single mention of a domain on network TV?

  3. Judge in Xbox modding trial berates prosecution, halts trial

  4. Show HN: Spreadsheets using Python - Have you seen this?

  5. Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth

  6. Zediva Streams Movies From Physical DVD Players, Argues It’s Legal

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