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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 25 – January 24, 2012 812 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 24 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

White House Petitioned to Investigate MPAA Bribery

wh.gov · 2 sources

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google, what were you thinking?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Using the Dropbox API from Haskell

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. White House Petitioned to Investigate MPAA Bribery

    wh.gov · 2 outlets

  2. Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  3. A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan.

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  4. Google's Kenyan ripoff?

    boingboing.net · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Why the feds smashed Megaupload

    torrentfreak.com · 2 outlets

  2. Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood

    bits.blogs.nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

    theappifier.com · 1 outlets

  4. Joel Spolsky's Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup.

    answers.onstartups.com · 1 outlets

  5. Adventures in Aeron Chair Arbitrage

    blog.priceonomics.com · 1 outlets

  6. Spain threatened with trade blacklist for not passing SOPA style law

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  7. California State Senator Proposes Funding Open-Source Textbooks

    yro.slashdot.org · 1 outlets

  8. The anatomy of a ripoff

    nydailynews.com · 1 outlets

  9. Introducing the Backbone.js Boilerplate

    weblog.bocoup.com · 1 outlets

  10. I am done with the freemium business model

    tylernichols.com · 1 outlets

Sports 19 stories

  1. I'm Pirating the Next Version of Windows

    littlebitofcode.com · 1 outlets

  2. Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Jaws: HTML5 Javascript game engine / development library

    adityaravishankar.com · 2 outlets

  2. This game was made entirely in css (no javascript)

    jsrun.it · 1 outlets

  3. Apple ][ game server

    asciiexpress.net · 1 outlets

  4. Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS

    blogs.msdn.com · 1 outlets

  5. Engineer wins $1.9 million in "wrongful hire" suit against Seagate.

    hirecentrix.com · 1 outlets

  6. Quixey Challenge: Fix a bug in 1 minute to win $100. Refer a winner to win $50.

    quixeychallenge.com · 1 outlets

Technology 576 stories

  1. Impressive SOPA blackout

    blog.reddit.com · 43 outlets

  2. How Google Code Search Worked

    thesash.me · 15 outlets

  3. Google's "free food" is not free

    nltk.org · 8 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Why UEFI secure boot is difficult for Linux

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  2. Namecheap to Double EFF Donation if 25,000 Transfers Made Today

    elliotsblog.com · 1 outlets

  3. Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor

    tumblr.amitgupta.com · 1 outlets

  4. PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute

    regretsy.com · 1 outlets

  5. Time to end the war on drugs

    virgin.com · 1 outlets

  6. Why I'm a Pirate

    ploum.net · 1 outlets

  7. Google, what were you thinking?

    blog.mocality.co.ke · 4 outlets

  8. Richard Stallman Was Right All Along

    osnews.com · 1 outlets

  9. GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA

    david.weebly.com · 4 outlets

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping...

    rogerebert.com · 1 outlets

  2. My uncle's factorization algorithms

    github.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. TVs are all awful

    mjg59.dreamwidth.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Scrollorama

    johnpolacek.github.com · 1 outlets

  3. I was on BloombergTV talking SOPA today - how'd I do?

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  4. Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal Music

    rt.com · 1 outlets

  5. Avenger controller company pisses off gaming community with bad customer support

    penny-arcade.com · 1 outlets

  6. The New French Hacker-Artist Underground

    wired.com · 1 outlets

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