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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 29 – January 28, 2012 826 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 28 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

    Using the Dropbox API from Haskell

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Building Twitter bootstrap

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Business

    Recruiting programmers to your startup

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 46 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. Applications open for Y Combinator's summer 2012 funding cycle

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  6. Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit

    apple.com · 1 outlets

  7. Facebook to File for IPO Next Week

    mashable.com · 1 outlets

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

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  9. California State Senator Proposes Funding Open-Source Textbooks

    yro.slashdot.org · 1 outlets

  10. The anatomy of a ripoff

    nydailynews.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. Color: a color matching game done in d3.js and Raphael

    color.method.ac · 1 outlets

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

    jsrun.it · 1 outlets

  4. Apple ][ game server

    asciiexpress.net · 1 outlets

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

    blogs.msdn.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 581 stories

  1. Impressive SOPA blackout

    blog.reddit.com · 41 outlets

  2. How Google Code Search Worked

    thesash.me · 15 outlets

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

    nltk.org · 9 outlets

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  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. Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

    lists.busybox.net · 1 outlets

  6. Why I'm a Pirate

    ploum.net · 1 outlets

  7. Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

    iheartchaos.com · 1 outlets

  8. Google, what were you thinking?

    blog.mocality.co.ke · 3 outlets

  9. Richard Stallman Was Right All Along

    osnews.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 35 stories

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

    rogerebert.com · 1 outlets

  2. TVs are all awful

    mjg59.dreamwidth.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

    mongout.com · 2 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. Show HN: my database engine for GPU

    sourceforge.net · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I've created a site about Bone Marrow Donation

    politicianmarket.com · 2 outlets

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