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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 25 – December 25, 2007 759 stories · Vol. 07 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 359 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A Common Lisp web startup test-case, two years after the Reddit switch

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Paul Buchheit: Brilliantly wrong

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Common Lisp Implementations: A Survey

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    How active is Hacker News?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 65 stories

  1. A Common Lisp web startup test-case, two years after the Reddit switch

  2. "Facebook Business Solutions"

  3. Google's wireless chief, Sacca, leaves to become angel investor

  4. Why Early Stage Venture Investments Fail

Show 10 more
  1. Y Combinator Startup School Notelab 2006

  2. Startup Math: 1 + 1 = 1/2

  3. Here's to You Mr(s) Arrington, Goodbye and Good Luck Startups

  4. Business Advice from a Billionaire

  5. The other tech CEOs "For every Chad Hurley or Mark Zuckerberg there are many Sathvik Krishnamurthys"

  6. Loic Le Meur's Ten Rules For Startup Success

  7. "Running a startup is a great way to learn how to, and how not to, ignore the right things."

  8. Buy your own video startup

  9. On the fundamentals of programming

  10. Water becomes the new oil as world runs dry

Sports 34 stories

  1. Stunt Pilot - our first flash game

  2. Portal is the most subversive game ever

Show 6 more
  1. The secret to winning at rock, paper, scissors

  2. You'll never be this good at games...

  3. For the game designers and players: this is the best list of well-designed flash games

  4. Why don't sports teams use randomization?

  5. Could a morbidly obese goalie shut out an NHL team?

  6. Disqus: Scoble, Winer and Fred Wilson Like it, Why I Don't

Technology 526 stories

  1. Joel Spolsky's talk at Yale, part 1

  2. Why I regret getting straight A's in college

  3. Google goes digg-like on search

Show 9 more
  1. Code's Worst Enemy

  2. We didn't start the Fire (2.0)

  3. Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford

  4. Success [pic]

  5. xkcd - Network

  6. It's not exponential, it's sigmoidal

  7. Randall Munroe talks xkcd at Google (astounding cameo at 21:30)

  8. The Dictatorship of Talent

  9. AppJet (YC co) Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Amazon Startup Challenge Videos (including Justin.tv)

  2. Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

Show 6 more
  1. Toshiba makes a personal Nuclear Reactor. Available in the US 2009

  2. Reminder: Leah Culver talking at Justin.TV tomorrow

  3. ErlyWeb vs. Ruby on Rails EC2 Performance Showdown

  4. Johnny Lee creates a headtracking VR system with a TV and a Wii-mote

  5. Disney To Make Up To 20 Startup Acquisitions In Next 24 Months

  6. Deutsche Grammophon launches giant, DRM-free classical music store

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