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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 20 – October 20, 2012 842 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 294 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

48 Hours Preview: 5 years following a double murder

48 Hours producer Sara Ely Hulse on the last chapter in a cold case that haunted Topeka, Kansas

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Hacker News Data Analysis

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    XKCD-style charts with D3

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 39 stories

  1. Startup = Growth

  2. Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups

  3. Zynga stock plummets below value of its cash and real estate

  4. IBM: The cost difference is too great for business not to look for H1B workers

Show 10 more
  1. Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation

  2. Making Yourself a CEO

  3. What Business is Wall Street In?

  4. Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Startup Rap Genius

  5. Get Your Startup Covered by Any Blog

  6. Drupal's Golden Handcuffs

  7. Federal Circuit reexamining whether software is patentable

  8. Bank of America Giving Access to Random Accounts

  9. Startup work-life balance

  10. How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

Sports 54 stories

  1. Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers

  2. Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

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  1. The game of life emulated in the game of life

  2. How to Build a Windmill, Part 2: Parts, Nuts, Bolts and Blades

  3. The Pendulum Swings, Again

  4. “I am calling you from Windows”: A tech support scammer

  5. Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing

  6. Notch: "I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along."

Technology 612 stories

  1. Google Homepage Size Over Time

  2. Help find a bright object on Mars

  3. Some advice from Jeff Bezos

Show 9 more
  1. One of the SpaceX engines came apart during launch

  2. Google's Go Programming Language Grows Up: Now What?

  3. Free Textbooks on Machine Learning

  4. Bret Victor: Learnable Programming

  5. The Amazing iOS 6 Maps

  6. HN Spoof

  7. Meeting A Troll

  8. A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps

  9. Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.

Entertainment 29 stories

  1. Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app

  2. Racism at a gaming company

Show 6 more
  1. USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 can be trigged from a HTML page

  2. What Pandora Pays Top Artists

  3. Show HN: Meet your cardboard buddy.

  4. Leak shows EU's plans for large scale surveillance of all communications

  5. How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million - And Still Isn't Profitable

  6. Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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