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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 30 – August 29, 2012 842 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 242 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

    Khan Academy: Computer Science

    5 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Seven Things I Hate About Agile

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Please turn on two-factor authentication

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. A Man Walks into a Bank

  2. Your startup is not a startup, it’s just a website.

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

  4. How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers)

Show 10 more
  1. What A Hacker Learns After A Year In Marketing

  2. Jury in Apple v. Samsung Goofed, Damages Reduced; What's Wrong With this Picture

  3. Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die.

  4. Tesla Museum Gets Funded

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

  6. Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

  7. HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0

  8. PG: The Art of Funding a Startup is now free on Amazon

  9. Don’t drink the startup Kool-Aid – just find a problem and try to solve it

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

Sports 33 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. Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes

  3. Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game

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

  5. Windows 8 Tells Microsoft Everything You Install, Not Very Securely.

  6. Quake Video Game Industry Legend Paul Steed Has Passed Away

Technology 600 stories

  1. Mars Curiosity's first images

  2. Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today

  3. Who cares if Samsung copied Apple?

Show 9 more
  1. Khan Academy: Computer Science

  2. This is how Visa works

  3. Amazon Glacier

  4. This is a bit f'd, Quora

  5. Textmate2 Goes Open Source

  6. Design Tip: Never Use Black

  7. An Unexpected Ass Kicking

  8. Dear Mark Zuckerberg

  9. I Have 50 Dollars

Entertainment 51 stories

  1. Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives

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

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: Business.txt - Standard Proposal

  4. Show HN: BigVideo.js

  5. Please turn on two-factor authentication

  6. How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat

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