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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 15 – August 22, 2008 189 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 235 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

"The mission is to end oil," he says, "not create a company."

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Business 13 stories

  1. "The mission is to end oil," he says, "not create a company."

  2. My Startup project: ErrorKey.com, a tool for hackers.

  3. Jason Calacanis On How To Get PR For Your Startup: Fire Your PR Company

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  1. 11 Things Startups Should Know About Enterprise 2.0

  2. Acquisition/Investment vs. Bootstrapping

  3. Ten Startups Debut At TechStars Demo Day

  4. DHH Interview: Ruby on Rails, Startups, Culture

Sports 9 stories

  1. Pretending to game the system: Fans hoax "Girlfriend" vid to the #1 spot on YouTube.

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  1. Picwing (YC Summer 08) Debuts Their Social Digital Picture Frame

  2. Keep found things found, search Delicious 2.0 on Google with WebMynd (YC Winter 08)

  3. Cilk Programing Language Wins Most Influential Award

Technology 151 stories

  1. Q/A: What Thread-safe Rails Means

  2. Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained

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  1. Start a side project, says GitHub founder

  2. Series AA Documents Back Online

  3. Bruce Schneier: The response to the "If you've got nothing to hide" argument

  4. Very Long-Term Backup

  5. CouchSurfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down - Old, yet relevant

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. Blockbuster CEO 'Confused by Fascination' With Netflix

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  1. Mirror test shows magpies are self aware

  2. Y Combinator Demo Day: CO2Stats, Posterous and others show their stuff

  3. Factor: A practical stack language

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