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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 25 – March 4, 2009 191 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 10 · Issue 63 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

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

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Business 20 stories

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

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

  3. Jason Calacanis: What to do if your startup is about fail

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  1. Cringely's subscription-based mortgage refinancing startup

  2. Warren Buffet's Letter to Investors

  3. Call to action: Deceptive marketing of Safari 4

  4. Do You Need All That Water to Boil Pasta?

Sports 7 stories

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

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  1. Twilio Closes Funding Round, Lands Major Customers For Its Telephony API

  2. Implementing SCRUM - story of a Seedcamp winner

  3. A history of adventure games, and how interfaces affect puzzles

Technology 149 stories

  1. Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone

  2. Marissa Mayer Keynote on How Google Works

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  1. Building Quake Live : John Carmack

  2. What I've Learned from Hacker News

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

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

  5. Papers Every Programmer Should Read

Entertainment 5 stories

  1. Why TV Lost

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  1. Can a musician sell their music online?

  2. Books and Music That Make You Dumb

  3. Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player

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