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2008-01-17
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 10 – January 17, 2008 182 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 03 · Issue 17 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Trader Made Billions on Subprime

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Business 22 stories

  1. Trader Made Billions on Subprime

  2. 12 Learnings As a Startup CEO (Jobster, ~$48m in VC)

  3. The Startup Developer Superstar Detection Quiz

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  1. YC Startup Loopt Launches Location Applications Platform

  2. A Visual Guide to Simple, Compound and Continuous Interest Rates

  3. Lisp: The Golden Age Isn't Coming Back, Let's Welcome a Bright Future

  4. The laptop wars - Will charity or profit end the digital divide?

Sports 9 stories

  1. PG: Arc Likely To Be Open-Sourced This Winter

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  1. Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks?

  2. NBA player selling his branded shoes for $14.99. Disruptive, maybe?

  3. Screw Winning The Lottery - Just Make a Facebook App and Get Your Millions Now

Technology 135 stories

  1. Absolutely Unbelievable: Richard Stallman Crankin' Dat Soulja Boy in front of the Green Building at MIT [video]

  2. A bot that allows you to say only original content

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  1. Sun Buys MySQL

  2. Theinfo.org - for people with large data sets

  3. "Dignity is deadly." - Paul Graham

  4. DHH addresses Dreamhost's criticism of Rails

  5. Twitter releases the code for the messaging system they use across their clusters

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve Performance

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  1. The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES (bring a TV-B-Gone and film resulting chaos)

  2. In Rainbows: the top-selling album in the country this week

  3. Urban Mapping Neighborhood API opens up

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