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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close April 23 – April 30, 2009 188 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 120 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Lessons from a failed startup

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Business 19 stories

  1. Lessons from a failed startup

  2. Hacking for fun and profit with Mathematica and the Google Analytics API

  3. American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all

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  1. Fred Wilson on investing in Geocities

  2. Microsoft revenue down 6%, earnings down 30% for third quarter

  3. Zynga Pushing Nine Figures In Revenues Thanks To Micro-Transactions

  4. Great funding model: Adopt a line of code

Sports 10 stories

  1. How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll

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  1. We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (2004)

  2. Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down.

  3. A few comments on pandemic influenza

Technology 143 stories

  1. Wolfram Alpha: Our First Impressions

  2. Google Code now supports Mercurial

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  1. Ubuntu 9.04 released

  2. Programmers Don't Like to Code

  3. An Unschooling Manifesto

  4. China's Google Maps (zoom out for best effect)

  5. How Woz Gets Things Done

Entertainment 7 stories

  1. How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job

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  1. Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong

  2. Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation

  3. Reddit.TV launches - what do you think, Hacker News?

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