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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 24 – July 24, 2013 830 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 30 · Issue 205 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits

reuters.com · 2 sources

Also covering this thehill.comEcuador cancels US trade deal & donates $23MM to US for "human rights education"
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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The NSA's Surveillance Is Unconstitutional

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Double Secret Surveillance

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 54 stories

  1. Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits

    reuters.com · 2 outlets

  2. Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign

    sub.garrytan.com · 1 outlets

  3. Feds, We Need Some Time Apart

    defcon.org · 1 outlets

  4. DecryptoCat

    tobtu.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. My Startup has 30 Days to Live

    mystartuphas30daystoli · 1 outlets

  2. Block NSA funding for collecting the call records of all Americans

    defundthensa.com · 1 outlets

  3. Startup Investing Trends

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  4. When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at their firms goes up

    www4.gsb.columbia.edu · 1 outlets

  5. In the 1970s, Congress investigated intelligence abuses. Time to do it again?

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  6. Anatomy of a pseudorandom number generator – visualising Cryptocat's buggy PRNG

    nakedsecurity.sophos.c · 1 outlets

  7. NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  8. Armchair air crash investigator

    momav.me · 1 outlets

  9. The unprofitable SaaS business model trap

    blog.asmartbear.com · 1 outlets

  10. Anonymous Person Posts $500,000 Bond To Free Texas Teen

    npr.org · 1 outlets

Sports 24 stories

  1. “A Dark Room” game open-sourced

    adarkroom.doublespeakg · 2 outlets

  2. Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize

    popularmechanics.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95

    thisiscolossal.com · 1 outlets

  2. Yahoo wins motion to declassify court documents in PRISM case

    news.cnet.com · 1 outlets

  3. Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes

    winehq.org · 1 outlets

  4. Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA

    rt.com · 1 outlets

  5. Game Programmer Quits Job To Sell Street Food, Doubles Salary

    kotaku.com · 1 outlets

  6. Tesla wins in North Carolina, paves the way for direct-to-consumer sales

    engadget.com · 1 outlets

Technology 628 stories

  1. Snowden video from Moscow airport

    reuters.com · 16 outlets

  2. 19 Groups Sue NSA Over Data Collection

    washingtonpost.com · 3 outlets

  3. How secure is Linux's random number generator?

    lists.randombit.net · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. The NSA's Surveillance Is Unconstitutional

    restorethefourth.net · 4 outlets

  2. Peers call for a pardon for Alan Turing [video]

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”

    salon.com · 1 outlets

  4. Do Things that Don't Scale

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  5. Ubuntu Edge

    indiegogo.com · 1 outlets

  6. A few words on Doug Engelbart

    ietf.org · 2 outlets

  7. Victory Lap for Ask Patents

    joelonsoftware.com · 1 outlets

  8. Quine Relay

    github.com · 1 outlets

  9. Hospital creates bidding war by posting pricing online

    kfor.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 26 stories

  1. Show HN: I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi

    madebynathan.com · 1 outlets

  2. Thorium nuclear reactor trial begins in Norway

    extremetech.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and Bcc lines of e-mail data

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Floobits – Remote pair programming done right

    floobits.com · 2 outlets

  3. Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies?

    flavorwire.com · 1 outlets

  4. “What Is That Box?” – When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company

    readability.com · 1 outlets

  5. Leaked report shows high civilian death toll from CIA drone strikes

    salon.com · 1 outlets

  6. Refactoring GitHub's Design

    ianstormtaylor.com · 1 outlets

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