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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 9 – August 8, 2011 822 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 220 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%

sociology.ucsc.edu · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Facebook blocks Google+ ads

    10 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Technology

    What's Special About Lisp?

    8 of 30 days · 13 articles

  3. Technology

    Build your own operating system

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%

    sociology.ucsc.edu · 1 outlets

  2. 30kloc and $0 revenue. Lessons from my failed startup (& code release)

    truffles.me.uk · 1 outlets

  3. Skeleton: A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development

    getskeleton.com · 1 outlets

  4. Airbnb Competitor Checks IDs: 'We Don't Want to Trade Security for Volume'

    betabeat.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Just the Facts: S&P's $2 Trillion Mistake

    treasury.gov · 1 outlets

  2. Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement Just Weeks After Entering US Market

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  3. Intellectual Ventures on This American Life

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  4. Radio Shack to start stocking Arduino, Other Goodies

    blog.radioshack.com · 1 outlets

  5. Why I Sold My Startup to Google

    danshapiro.com · 1 outlets

  6. Federal Register API

    federalregister.gov · 1 outlets

  7. Which Fish: With fish stocks under pressure, which are okay to eat?

    whichfish.org · 1 outlets

  8. How to Launch Your Startup Idea for Less than $5K

    mikekarnj.com · 2 outlets

  9. When free markets make it worse: new TLDs

    blog.asmartbear.com · 1 outlets

  10. The Massive Mystery In Google's Finances

    siliconvalleywatcher.c · 1 outlets

Sports 25 stories

  1. United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  2. Games company claims their graphics are 100,000x better

    ausgamers.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Google Labs Winding Down

    googleblog.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

  2. Chain World: a game that exists on a unique USB flash drive

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  3. Game of Thrones CGI

    all-things-andy-gavin. · 1 outlets

  4. A game with a windfall for a knowing few

    boston.com · 1 outlets

  5. Flame from Bill Gates Re: Windows Usability

    antitrust.slated.org · 1 outlets

  6. The Growing Divide Between Silicon Valley And Unemployed America

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Technology 603 stories

  1. Bootstrapping an Ultra Low Latency Trading Firm, Part 2

    veyronb.wordpress.com · 1 outlets

  2. When patents attack Android

    npr.org · 6 outlets

  3. Illustrated: Apple's Fear of Android

    zdnet.com · 6 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Build your own operating system

    wiki.mozilla.org · 5 outlets

  2. Notch defends his previous statement calling Euclideon a scam

    notch.tumblr.com · 1 outlets

  3. Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core

    shiftyjelly.wordpress. · 1 outlets

  4. Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight

    ejroundtheworld.blogsp · 1 outlets

  5. Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned

    ejroundtheworld.blogsp · 1 outlets

  6. Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly.

    harvesthq.github.com · 1 outlets

  7. 33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto

    thepiratebay.org · 1 outlets

  8. Bored People Quit

    randsinrepose.com · 1 outlets

  9. A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

    gamesbyemail.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 30 stories

  1. Netflix for baby clothes

    plumgear.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: I made a Web-based Todo App - used: CSS3 3D transforms, Node.js, love

    tomorrow.do · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: I built an app to improve your Vocabulary

    tvsizematters.com · 3 outlets

  2. "Very bold or very dumb": data caps don't apply to ISP's own movie service

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Monster Coloring Book, my first App just launched. What do you think?

    monstercoloringbook.co · 1 outlets

  4. Anonymous hacks Booz Allen Hamilton, US military contractor, 90k logins dumped

    thepiratebay.org · 1 outlets

  5. Netflix introduces new plans and price changes

    blog.netflix.com · 1 outlets

  6. Hollywood is about to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the music industry

    slate.com · 1 outlets

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