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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 13 – October 13, 2013 823 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 286 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

reuters.com · 3 sources

Also covering this github.comSilk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marketplace theguardian.comFBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk Road founder
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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Clojure's core.typed vs Haskell

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    My time with the Steam Controller

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Your name is way too long for your ID

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 41 stories

  1. FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  2. Why Your Startup Can’t Find Developers

    fastcolabs.com · 2 outlets

  3. Deciphering the Business Card Raytracer

    fabiensanglard.net · 1 outlets

  4. Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup

    blog.natbat.net · 2 outlets

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  1. Mars water surprise in Curiosity rover soil samples

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  2. The Real Reason The Poor Go Without Bank Accounts

    theatlanticcities.com · 1 outlets

  3. Mark Cuban makes Shark Tank remove equity clause in contract

    inc.com · 1 outlets

  4. How we tripled our revenue by adding one button

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  5. Einstein and the Great Fed Robbery

    nanex.net · 1 outlets

  6. FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

    blog.fastmail.fm · 1 outlets

  7. How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  8. I emailed the CEO of T-Mobile and he killed my contract

    bizjournals.com · 1 outlets

  9. Crowdfunding for Typed Clojure and ClojureScript

    indiegogo.com · 1 outlets

  10. US Military Scientists Solve a Fundamental Problem of Viral Marketing

    technologyreview.com · 1 outlets

Sports 24 stories

  1. Troll-Killing Patent Reform One Step Closer

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  2. Full archives of Game Developer magazine

    gdcvault.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: Drawingboard.js

    leimi.github.io · 1 outlets

  2. Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

  3. U.S. Opposes Tech Companies’ Requests to Disclose Surveillance

    allthingsd.com · 1 outlets

  4. This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  5. Linux only needs one 'killer' game to explode, says Battlefield director

    polygon.com · 1 outlets

  6. Looking back on the game 'Myst' on its 20th anniversary

    grantland.com · 1 outlets

Technology 647 stories

  1. 'Grand Theft Auto V' Crosses $1B In Sales

    variety.com · 2 outlets

  2. WikiLeaks Leaks 'Fifth Estate' Screenplay

    wikileaks.org · 2 outlets

  3. SteamOS

    store.steampowered.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Google Web Designer

    google.com · 1 outlets

  2. Homebrew Computer Club Reunion

    ccc.de · 3 outlets

  3. I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

    theawl.com · 1 outlets

  4. World

    aem1k.com · 1 outlets

  5. Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

    bugzilla.mozilla.org · 3 outlets

  6. My Friends and I Bought an Island

    tynan.com · 1 outlets

  7. My time with the Steam Controller

    store.steampowered.com · 4 outlets

  8. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

    feynmanlectures.caltec · 1 outlets

  9. Your name is way too long for your ID

    chrisstucchio.com · 4 outlets

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services

    schneier.com · 1 outlets

  2. Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show

    wired.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  2. Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: UI Concept – Focus Transition

    n12v.com · 1 outlets

  4. Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

    fastcocreate.com · 1 outlets

  5. Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs

    nobelprize.org · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: "Who is hiring" mapped

    gaganpreet.github.io · 1 outlets

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