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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 17 – October 17, 2009 789 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 290 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

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1Articles

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What Google Can't Copy (Easily)

    9 of 30 days · 13 articles

  2. Technology

    Ooc - modern object oriented c

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    Charming Python: Decorators make magic easy

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

  2. Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man

  3. Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO

  4. Fundable comes to an ugly end

Show 10 more
  1. Flash Professional CS5 will build native iPhone and iPod Touch applications

  2. Answers.OnStartups.com -- StackOverflow for startups

  3. The best unknown activist investment of 2009

  4. @2gov - Visas for startup founders movement

  5. Email Newsletters Are Serious Business

  6. Why startups shouldn’t have to pay to pitch angel investors

  7. What I Learned From My Startup Failing

  8. Heroku: Announcing Huge Growth and New CEO

  9. Boston startup events, resources, people you need to know

  10. Supercomputer Porn - Letting your competitors do your market research for you

Sports 27 stories

  1. How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter

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

Show 6 more
  1. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time

  2. First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp

  3. The end of AI winter?

  4. ACM 20 Most Influential Papers on Programming Languages [tarball]

  5. 21-year-old computer geek makes £1m with online game (Torn)

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

Technology 606 stories

  1. The Duct Tape Programmer

  2. I like Unicorn (Rack HTTP server) because it's Unix

  3. Using SVN makes your site extremely vulnerable

Show 9 more
  1. Courier - Microsoft's Secret Tablet?

  2. What Google Can't Copy (Easily)

  3. A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away

  4. When a co-founder dies

  5. This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch

  6. The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office"

  7. How to Write Clearly, Think Clearly, and Learn Easily

  8. Paul Buchheit: Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. "Hacking"

  9. The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file

  2. Grand Prize Awarded To BellKor Pragmatic Chaos

Show 6 more
  1. New instrument scales musical heights

  2. Netflix's tail massage

  3. MIT Startup Bootcamp (live @ justin.tv)

  4. Justin.tv founders named as top 30 under 30 by Inc.

  5. The Economist reviews Michael Moore's new film

  6. Netflix Prize Movie Similarity Visualization

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