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2008-12-26
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 26 – December 26, 2008 754 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 361 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

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1Articles

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Java is Dead; Long Live Python

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    How To Guarantee That Your Software Will Suck

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 67 stories

  1. Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

  2. Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

  3. How To Spot a Breakthrough: Tips from Early Amazon Investor Nick Hanauer

  4. Join reddit, xkcd, dtoid, ars technica & more - donate your hacker skills to non-profits

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  1. Using an automated day trader to generate income

  2. Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath

  3. Mibbit: One year old, and profitable

  4. Obscene Losses: How YouPorn is Killing the Adult Entertainment Business

  5. Lawrence Lessig: The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal

  6. 588 Kleiner Perkins iFund Applications Accidentally Published To Web

  7. Video of Investor Morten Lund at LeWeb. This guys is crazy/awesome.

  8. Markopolous' (ignored) complaint to SEC describing Madoff's fund as Ponzi scheme

  9. The fundamental problems with CSS3

  10. Funeral director had $250 million stash of IBM stock

Sports 26 stories

  1. How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (by the World of Goo people)

  2. Introducing the Picwing Smart Frame (YC S08)

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  1. Trolling To Win: Can trolling work better than asking for help?

  2. Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon

  3. Physics Nobel Prize Winner Steven Chu Nominated to be Secretary of Energy

  4. Official Gmail Blog: Fast PDF viewing right in your browser

  5. "Text editors should take a lesson from video games."

  6. Fed refuses to disclose recipients of $2 trillion

Technology 564 stories

  1. Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa

  2. Auto bailout bill dies in Senate

  3. Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

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  1. Love, Internet Style

  2. After Credentials

  3. The nicest math book I own

  4. Freezing cold, no Internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference

  5. The High-Res Society

  6. The Day Merb Joined Rails

  7. Ever wondered what the 'Free Public WiFi' networks you see everywhere are?

  8. Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

  9. Python 3.0 Released

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. The other half of "Artists Ship"

  2. Netflix Progress Prize Awarded

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  1. Roger Ebert: Celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think.

  2. Auditorium: Gaming via the process of discovery and play

  3. Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits

  4. Idiomag Pushes the Envelope With Big New Music API

  5. MusicBox: a truly powerful visualization of your music library

  6. Hidden API features turn iPhone into "gaming device."

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