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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 29 – September 28, 2009 807 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 271 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil

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1Articles

What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Building an Echo Server Using Tornado

    7 of 30 days · 11 articles

  2. Technology

    Naming characters with Google AdWords

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  3. Technology

    Getting a Fair Toss From a Biased Coin

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 41 stories

  1. The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil

  2. @2gov - Visas for startup founders movement

  3. Free the H-1Bs, Free the Economy

  4. The trouble with non-profits

Show 10 more
  1. When It Comes To Founding Successful Startups, Old Guys Rule

  2. The Best Deal In Startup Land

  3. What I Learned From My Failed Startup

  4. Android Market Sales data: pitiful $64/day for a Top 5 app

  5. TC50 Backstage: Why PG Was Mean and Which YC Companies Will IPO

  6. Child-safety software sells kids' IM conversations to market-research companies

  7. Quotes From PG’s FBFund Talk From Today

  8. Startup Bootcamp at MIT

  9. EBay to sell Skype to investment group including Andreesen Horowitz

  10. Twitter Closing New Venture Round At $1 Billion Valuation

Sports 24 stories

  1. Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account and Disclose Identity

  2. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time

Show 6 more
  1. ACM 20 Most Influential Papers on Programming Languages [tarball]

  2. Why aeroplane wings aren't dimpled like golf balls

  3. John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace "wins" Lunar Lander Challenge [video]

  4. Google Releases A Nuke. Apple Won’t Win This Fight.

  5. Switching to Linux: A Windows developer’s view

  6. How to use game theory to buy a car

Technology 621 stories

  1. Writing a DSL with Python

  2. Upgrading to Snow Leopard

  3. Courier - Microsoft's Secret Tablet?

Show 9 more
  1. The Duct Tape Programmer

  2. Building an Echo Server Using Tornado

  3. Naming characters with Google AdWords

  4. Norman Borlaug on Organic Farming

  5. Learning Clojure with Project Euler

  6. Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

  7. Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us

  8. When a co-founder dies

  9. Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Grand Prize Awarded To BellKor Pragmatic Chaos

  2. Netflix Prize Movie Similarity Visualization

Show 6 more
  1. Netflix's tail massage

  2. Coding Scheme Live, to Music

  3. Disney to Acquire Marvel Entertainment

  4. Tell HN: Paul Graham on TC50 panel, streaming live

  5. 7 ways I’ve almost killed FreshBooks

  6. Music Sales

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