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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 25 – August 24, 2009 797 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 236 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ramen Profitable

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    A response to Dropping Django

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    I Hacked My Diet with Science

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What makes Erlang so great

    3 of 30 days · 7 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. Ramen Profitable

  2. YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

  3. Starting a Bank

  4. Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias

Show 10 more
  1. YC-Funded Flightcaster Tells You When Your Flight Is Delayed

  2. The third largest stock exchange in America is a startup

  3. YC-Funded HighlightCam Makes It Easy To Remotely Watch Babies, Pets And Burglars

  4. Eye candy is a critical business requirement

  5. Tips for Startup Companies (2006)

  6. Why my VC funded startup failed

  7. Apple Expects Google Voice App Developers To Pay Refunds Out Of Pocket

  8. Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research

  9. Springboard. A new incubator (in Cambridge, UK), takes no equity.

  10. Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July

Sports 21 stories

  1. Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games

  2. Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault

Show 6 more
  1. (chromium) Issue 18385: Head in place of close button

  2. Calculator hackers crack OS signing key, opening a closed platform

  3. Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future

  4. Google Wave is the new X-Windows

  5. The challenges of Creating a Civilization Web Game

  6. Tic-Tac-Toe in Erlang: Game Space Symmetries

Technology 596 stories

  1. What's Wrong With E=MC^2?

  2. Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

  3. _why is no more

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  1. Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms

  2. Eulogy to _why

  3. Signs that you're a bad programmer

  4. So long, and thanks for all the fish

  5. Pro Git - CC licensed book on Git by Scott Chacon

  6. The Trouble with the Segway

  7. Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

  8. Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors

  9. R.I.P. Les Paul

Entertainment 23 stories

  1. Netflix Prize Update: New Team in First Place (deadline tomorrow)

  2. The Guide to the Freedom and Responsibility Culture at Netflix

Show 6 more
  1. Anybots is for real: Check out Trevor's robots on the Surrogates trailer

  2. Inside a Netflix Warehouse

  3. GraffitiGeo shows first augmented reality app for restaurant recommendations

  4. Justin.tv Opens Its API For Free, Hopes Live Video Will Explode

  5. What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel

  6. Radiohead Says No More Albums

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