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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 17 – October 17, 2012 844 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 291 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

48 Hours Preview: 5 years following a double murder

48 Hours producer Sara Ely Hulse on the last chapter in a cold case that haunted Topeka, Kansas

CBS · 1 sources

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1Articles

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Yes I Still Want To Be Doing This at 56

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Appeals Court Caves to TSA Over Nude Body Scanners

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. Startup = Growth

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups

    blog.ryankearney.com · 1 outlets

  3. Zynga stock plummets below value of its cash and real estate

    latimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Stock Android Isn't Perfect: Things I Can't Stand About Jelly Bean

    androidpolice.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Analysis of bank PIN numbers

    datagenetics.com · 1 outlets

  2. IBM: The cost difference is too great for business not to look for H1B workers

    cis.org · 1 outlets

  3. Yahoo Removes Registered Trademark (R) From Logo

    instagram.com · 1 outlets

  4. Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation

    mapbox.com · 1 outlets

  5. What Business is Wall Street In?

    blogmaverick.com · 1 outlets

  6. Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Startup Rap Genius

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  7. Get Your Startup Covered by Any Blog

    blog.metamorphium.com · 2 outlets

  8. Drupal's Golden Handcuffs

    mikecr.it · 1 outlets

  9. Federal Circuit reexamining whether software is patentable

    patentlyo.com · 1 outlets

  10. Bank of America Giving Access to Random Accounts

    privateinternetaccess. · 1 outlets

Sports 48 stories

  1. Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers

    jwz.org · 1 outlets

  2. Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

    google.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. The game of life emulated in the game of life

    jwz.org · 1 outlets

  2. How to Build a Windmill, Part 2: Parts, Nuts, Bolts and Blades

    jacquesmattheij.com · 1 outlets

  3. The Pendulum Swings, Again

    jacquesmattheij.com · 1 outlets

  4. “I am calling you from Windows”: A tech support scammer

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  5. Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing

    google.co.uk · 1 outlets

  6. Notch: "I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along."

    kotaku.com · 1 outlets

Technology 632 stories

  1. Google Homepage Size Over Time

    blog.telemapics.com · 11 outlets

  2. Help find a bright object on Mars

    mathematica.stackexcha · 3 outlets

  3. Things I Learned From Founding Technology Companies

    ikaisays.com · 3 outlets

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  1. One of the SpaceX engines came apart during launch

    new.livestream.com · 3 outlets

  2. Xkcd "Click and Drag" in a "map" interface

    xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.d · 2 outlets

  3. Google's Go Programming Language Grows Up: Now What?

    typescriptlang.org · 4 outlets

  4. Bret Victor: Learnable Programming

    worrydream.com · 1 outlets

  5. The Amazing iOS 6 Maps

    theamazingios6maps.tum · 1 outlets

  6. HN Spoof

    us2.campaign-archive1. · 1 outlets

  7. Meeting A Troll

    traynorseye.com · 1 outlets

  8. A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps

    apple.com · 2 outlets

  9. Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.

    stackoverflow.com · 5 outlets

Entertainment 29 stories

  1. Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app

    selfstarter.us · 2 outlets

  2. Racism at a gaming company

    qu33riousity.tumblr.co · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 can be trigged from a HTML page

    exquisitetweets.com · 1 outlets

  2. What Pandora Pays Top Artists

    blog.pandora.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Meet your cardboard buddy.

    foldable.me · 2 outlets

  4. Leak shows EU's plans for large scale surveillance of all communications

    edri.org · 1 outlets

  5. Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

    imperavi.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: UrbanDesk - Combination Full Size Bed and Desk

    kickstarter.com · 1 outlets

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