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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 29 – February 28, 2009 791 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 59 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startups in 13 Sentences

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    ZS3 - Amazon S3 from Common Lisp

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Things you may not know about jQuery

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    What I don’t like about Python

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 65 stories

  1. Startups in 13 Sentences

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: Things We Learned the Hard Way (by Posterous S08)

    axonflux.com · 1 outlets

  3. How Not to Pitch to a Startup

    particletree.com · 1 outlets

  4. Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0

    eastbayexpress.com · 1 outlets

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  1. That 'Electronic Bank Run'? Didn't happen.

    portfolio.com · 1 outlets

  2. Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding

    ycombinator.com · 4 outlets

  3. Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog Creek

    onstartups.com · 2 outlets

  4. Y Combinator putting on special event called AngelConf for would-be investors

    angelconf.com · 1 outlets

  5. The new reality: Ticketstumbler ($15,000 in funding) vs Fansnap ($10.5 million)

    siteanalytics.compete. · 1 outlets

  6. If my startup fails, this is my cover letter for my next employer

    killall.dashnine.org · 1 outlets

  7. Joel Spolsky: A new business is like a shortwave radio.

    inc.com · 1 outlets

  8. Chris Wanstrath's Startup Riot keynote text

    gist.github.com · 2 outlets

  9. Why We're Probably in For a Long Recession

    fivethirtyeight.com · 2 outlets

  10. The Story of My Startup.

    dailybooth.com · 1 outlets

Sports 28 stories

  1. Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants, Video Games, Music, & Meditation

    sciam.com · 1 outlets

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  1. How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery

    mindyourdecisions.com · 1 outlets

  2. LÖVE - a 2D game engine for rapid game development in Lua

    love2d.org · 1 outlets

  3. How to game the U.S. higher-education system

    kuro5hin.org · 1 outlets

  4. IPhone Game iShoot earns the Developer $600K in a month

    iphonedev.in · 1 outlets

  5. Flower is the only video game I've played that made me feel relaxed, peaceful, and happy

    slate.com · 1 outlets

  6. Ask HN: Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game

    taxi-mogul.com · 1 outlets

Technology 573 stories

  1. PyML: machine learning in Python

    pyml.sourceforge.net · 4 outlets

  2. Alex Payne: The Problem With Email Clients

    al3x.net · 2 outlets

  3. Introducing Mozilla Bespin, a Canvas-based IDE

    labs.mozilla.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Google Quietly Laying Off Engineers

    blog.searchenginewatch · 3 outlets

  2. Building Quake Live : John Carmack

    gamasutra.com · 3 outlets

  3. Wikipedia list of algorithms

    en.wikipedia.org · 1 outlets

  4. Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

    blog.last.fm · 1 outlets

  5. ZS3 - Amazon S3 from Common Lisp

    paulgraham.com · 7 outlets

  6. How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data

    bret.appspot.com · 1 outlets

  7. The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad

    etherpad.com · 1 outlets

  8. Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout

    flownet.com · 2 outlets

  9. Keep Your Identity Small

    paulgraham.com · 3 outlets

Entertainment 18 stories

  1. I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.

    slate.com · 1 outlets

  2. Mindfuck Movies

    themorningnews.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Can a musician sell their music online?

    zedshaw.com · 1 outlets

  2. Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect

    time.com · 1 outlets

  3. Former NiN Drummer Takes Album Promotion A Step Further

    mashable.com · 1 outlets

  4. Why Hulu Should Embrace Boxee

    centernetworks.com · 2 outlets

  5. Study Shows Why Sleep is Needed to Form Memories

    time.com · 2 outlets

  6. Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator

    capitalfactory.com · 1 outlets

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