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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 19 – September 18, 2013 841 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 261 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

microsoft.com · 1 sources

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Hacker News All-Time Top Links

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Your name is way too long for your ID

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The Deal That Makes No Sense

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

    microsoft.com · 1 outlets

  2. N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds

    mailpile.is · 1 outlets

  4. Android is for startups

    blog.audobox.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  2. Twitter Files For IPO

    allthingsd.com · 1 outlets

  3. A horrifying startup accelerator story

    davidgcohen.com · 2 outlets

  4. Why does NASA use gold foil on equipment and gold-coated visors?

    physics.stackexchange. · 1 outlets

  5. Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. The one HR benefit every startup should add

    42floors.com · 1 outlets

  7. Selling Software To Large Businesses

    training.kalzumeus.com · 1 outlets

  8. The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy (2012)

    io9.com · 1 outlets

  9. New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' NSA Crypto-Cracking

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  10. Vasili Arkhipov

    en.wikipedia.org · 1 outlets

Sports 31 stories

  1. 0 A.D., an Open-Source Strategy Game

    indiegogo.com · 1 outlets

  2. Let me tell you about a game I made with the sole intention of watching it die

    dominikjohann.tumblr.c · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up, fully open-source

    reactos.org · 1 outlets

  2. No-fly list ruling in Portland comes close to declaring it unconstitutional

    oregonlive.com · 1 outlets

  3. In California, a Champion for Police Cameras

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

    greatlanguagegame.com · 1 outlets

  5. HelloRun - A WebGL 3D Game

    hellorun.helloenjoy.co · 1 outlets

  6. Sweden 'a close partner' in NSA surveillance

    thelocal.se · 1 outlets

Technology 637 stories

  1. UK Authorities Destroy Guardian's Hard Drives

    pressfreedomfoundation · 2 outlets

  2. White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention

    m.bbc.co.uk · 5 outlets

  3. Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional to be released

    eff.org · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Don't Fly During Ramadan

    varnull.adityamukerjee · 2 outlets

  3. Forced Exposure

    groklaw.net · 1 outlets

  4. I will not do a tech interview

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  5. Hi I’m Hank, and I bought a bus

    hankboughtabus.com · 1 outlets

  6. World

    aem1k.com · 1 outlets

  7. New Zealand bans some software patents

    zdnet.com · 2 outlets

  8. Microsoft to acquire Nokia

    blogs.technet.com · 3 outlets

  9. He got 1%, we can't hire him

    codingjohnson.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier

    beelinereader.com · 1 outlets

  2. New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services

    schneier.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Kindle MatchBook

    amazon.com · 1 outlets

  2. Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  3. Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

    fastcocreate.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app

    wit.ai · 2 outlets

  5. NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show

    gigaom.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Tridiv - CSS 3D Editor

    tridiv.com · 2 outlets

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