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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 1 – December 31, 2009 820 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 53 · Issue 365 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    How Python is killing Lisp

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    T-Mobile "Officially" Confirms Google Phone

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Hnsh - Hacker News from the command-line

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 48 stories

  1. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?

  2. Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature

  3. Maps Navigation : Google vs a Startup

  4. Clojure Funding Progress

Show 10 more
  1. “Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story

  2. Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO

  3. What's the Deal with Fish Oil?

  4. Startup Therapy: Questions to ask yourself every month

  5. Y Combinator Startup Library

  6. Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering

  7. Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times

  8. CrunchPad Federal Lawsuit Filed; Some Additional Thoughts

  9. Matt Brezina: No One Cares About Your Stupid Little Startup

  10. Anniversary of the Rails/Merb Merger: So How'd It Go?

Sports 22 stories

  1. A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome

  2. Continuity - a clever flash puzzle game

Show 6 more
  1. My latest flash game, Robokill 2

  2. YC-Funded Lingt Uses Games To Turn You Into A Language Learning Addict

  3. Why I Stopped Throwing Out Junk Mail

  4. Learn Python by writing games (free book)

  5. Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos

  6. Health Insurers Pay Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency To Oppose Reform Bill

Technology 622 stories

  1. Follow up to "Functional Programming Doesn't Work"

  2. Browser Size, from Google Labs

  3. If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, Don’t Do It

Show 9 more
  1. Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

  2. Dan Bricklin's Note Taker for the Apple iPhone

  3. Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad

  4. Amazon Introduces Bidding for CPU Time (Spot Instances)

  5. Microsoft rips off Plurk

  6. There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)

  7. How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves

  8. How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.

  9. Why I gave away my company to charity

Entertainment 23 stories

  1. James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever

  2. SSD Streaming at Last.fm

Show 6 more
  1. Prague from the TV Tower - 18 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo

  2. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again - Sign out forever

  3. Wattvision (YC W09) Shows The Power Of Simple, Realtime Energy Monitoring

  4. Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts

  5. Gaming the System

  6. 1290 Amazon mp3s free (most music)

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