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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 18 – May 18, 2009 772 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 138 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profit per employee for some large tech companies

royal.pingdom.com · 2 sources

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Evented Programming With jQuery

    8 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    What To Look For In A Co-Founder

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Hacker News meetup in San Francisco (Wed Apr 22nd 6:00pm Revolution Cafe)

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. Profit per employee for some large tech companies

    royal.pingdom.com · 2 outlets

  2. Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)

    hnstartups.com · 1 outlets

  3. The First Digg Developer Dispels the Myths Surrounding Digg & Startups in General

    blog.mixergy.com · 1 outlets

  4. Lessons from a failed startup

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

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

    collison.ie · 1 outlets

  2. American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all

    independent.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. Underbelly: What haughty startup bloggers don't tell you

    blog.asmartbear.com · 2 outlets

  4. Obama proposes no capital gains tax on qualified small business stock

    startupcompanylawyer.c · 1 outlets

  5. Fred Wilson on investing in Geocities

    avc.com · 1 outlets

  6. Why there's nothing special about the business of software

    chrisashworth.org · 2 outlets

  7. Idiot CEOs

    venturecompany.com · 1 outlets

  8. Apple Posts Its Best Second Quarter Earnings Ever

    thestandard.com · 2 outlets

  9. EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on par with freedom of expression

    news.zdnet.com · 1 outlets

  10. The lifestyle business bullshit

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

Sports 28 stories

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

    musicmachinery.com · 1 outlets

  2. Google: Mowing lawn with goats

    googleblog.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

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

    kuro5hin.org · 1 outlets

  2. How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.

    shamusyoung.com · 1 outlets

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

    chronicle.com · 1 outlets

  4. Microsoft's Windows 7 Starter is a gift to Google

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

  5. A few comments on pandemic influenza

    fluidinfo.com · 1 outlets

  6. Atlassian Confluence $5 for 5 users

    atlassian.com · 1 outlets

Technology 590 stories

  1. Wolfram Alpha API (Google Cache)

    cyber.law.harvard.edu · 8 outlets

  2. Google Code now supports Mercurial

    google-code-updates.bl · 3 outlets

  3. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1

    tuxradar.com · 1 outlets

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  1. A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages

    james-iry.blogspot.com · 1 outlets

  2. HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old

    news.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  3. Oracle to buy Sun

    sun.com · 1 outlets

  4. Is There Anything Good About Men?

    denisdutton.com · 1 outlets

  5. Hacker News meetup in San Francisco (Wed Apr 22nd 6:00pm Revolution Cafe)

    mattmaroon.com · 3 outlets

  6. Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations.

    thelocal.se · 1 outlets

  7. Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

    miltonglaser.com · 1 outlets

  8. Can you trust 37signals with your password?

    jgc.org · 1 outlets

  9. Don’t! The secret of self-control

    newyorker.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 21 stories

  1. How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job

    savingadvice.com · 1 outlets

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

    steveblank.com · 1 outlets

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

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  2. The radioactive boy scout: the teenager who attempted to build a breeder reactor

    harpers.org · 1 outlets

  3. "Nothing like this will be built again" - A Nuclear Reactor Tour

    antipope.org · 1 outlets

  4. Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

  5. Wolfram Alpha to Launch Live on Justin.TV

    technologyreview.com · 1 outlets

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

    reddit.tv · 1 outlets

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