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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 22 – August 21, 2012 837 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 234 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A Man Walks into a Bank

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Who cares if Samsung copied Apple?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    What makes Paris look like Paris?

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    What I Hate About Working At Facebook

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 37 stories

  1. A Man Walks into a Bank

  2. Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous

  3. App.net funded with $500,000.

  4. Why Do Startups Do This?

Show 10 more
  1. Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die.

  2. Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999

  3. Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

  4. A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community

  5. How anti-competitive lawsuits by incumbents are killing early stage startups

  6. Peter Thiel’s startup class notes in PDF

  7. Facebook sinks to record low, 43% below IPO price, as doubts grow

  8. First-Time Startup Entrepreneurs: Stop F*cking Around

  9. Mechanics of a Small Acquisition

  10. Zynga Insiders Who Cashed Out Before The Stock Crashed

Sports 29 stories

  1. Installing Linux on Windows 8 PCs: No easy answers

  2. Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

Show 6 more
  1. SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor

  2. American TV Neglected the Saddest Story in the Olympics

  3. Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game

  4. This file's a Win Executable, PDF, Java executable (or Python script), and HTML

  5. Show HN: Brandseen - A logo coloring game built in 24h

  6. Dave Winer: An open Twitter-like ecosystem

Technology 613 stories

  1. Mars Curiosity's first images

  2. Amazon Career Choice Program

  3. OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As'

Show 9 more
  1. Khan Academy: Computer Science

  2. Google Fiber Plans & Pricing

  3. This is how Visa works

  4. Amazon Glacier

  5. This is a bit f'd, Quora

  6. Textmate2 Goes Open Source

  7. Design Tip: Never Use Black

  8. An Unexpected Ass Kicking

  9. Dear Mark Zuckerberg

Entertainment 48 stories

  1. Show HN: A date range picker for Twitter Bootstrap

  2. Show HN: Convert online videos to .gif

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers

  2. NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

  3. Show HN: BigVideo.js

  4. Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012

  5. Please turn on two-factor authentication

  6. Show HN: Music for Geeks and Nerds

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