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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 5 – February 4, 2012 840 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 35 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

White House Petitioned to Investigate MPAA Bribery

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Building Twitter bootstrap

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Bill Gates on his last visit with Steve Jobs

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    New MVC client side JavaScript framework - Serenade.js

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. White House Petitioned to Investigate MPAA Bribery

  2. Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.

  3. Books for people in the software business

  4. Google's Kenyan ripoff?

Show 10 more
  1. Why the feds smashed Megaupload

  2. Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood

  3. I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

  4. The 'Startup Boom' is a disguised jobs fair for big corporations

  5. Applications open for Y Combinator's summer 2012 funding cycle

  6. YC and 500 Startups company Curebit caught stealing from 37 Signals

  7. Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit

  8. Facebook to File for IPO Next Week

  9. Spain threatened with trade blacklist for not passing SOPA style law

  10. California State Senator Proposes Funding Open-Source Textbooks

Sports 17 stories

  1. I'm Pirating the Next Version of Windows

  2. Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game

Show 6 more
  1. Jaws: HTML5 Javascript game engine / development library

  2. The Humble Bundle for Android (and Mac / Windows / Linux)

  3. Color: a color matching game done in d3.js and Raphael

  4. This game was made entirely in css (no javascript)

  5. Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS

  6. Quixey Challenge: Fix a bug in 1 minute to win $100. Refer a winner to win $50.

Technology 572 stories

  1. Impressive SOPA blackout

  2. How Google Code Search Worked

  3. Google's "free food" is not free

Show 9 more
  1. Why UEFI secure boot is difficult for Linux

  2. Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor

  3. Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

  4. Why I'm a Pirate

  5. Building Twitter bootstrap

  6. Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

  7. Google, what were you thinking?

  8. The Five Stages of Hosting

  9. Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours

Entertainment 30 stories

  1. What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?

  2. MusicForProgramming();

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  1. Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

  2. Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

  3. Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal Music

  4. Show HN: my database engine for GPU

  5. Show HN: I've created a site about Bone Marrow Donation

  6. The New French Hacker-Artist Underground

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