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Stories from October 4, 2008
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1. Lessons from the failure of Livejournal: when not to listen to your users (arvindn.livejournal.com)
72 points by randomwalker on Oct 4, 2008 | 24 comments
2. Trying Clojure (netzhansa.blogspot.com)
58 points by gruseom on Oct 4, 2008 | 8 comments
3. The Macbook "Brick" (9to5mac.com)
43 points by ojbyrne on Oct 4, 2008 | 40 comments
4. XKCD's Randall Munroe runs Monte Carlo on Intrade's per-state markets (xkcd.com)
38 points by swombat on Oct 4, 2008 | 31 comments
5. Rules of Logo Design (tannersite.com)
35 points by jwilliams on Oct 4, 2008 | 12 comments
6. Inequality and the Sergey Brin Effect (american.com)
33 points by prakash on Oct 4, 2008 | 20 comments
7. What Is An Idea Worth? (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
30 points by whalliburton on Oct 4, 2008 | 37 comments
8. Cocoa Touch Tutorial - How to build a simple iPhone application (cimgf.com)
26 points by nickb on Oct 4, 2008
9. The Seeds of the Next Big Thing Are Being Planted Now (techcrunch.com)
24 points by terpua on Oct 4, 2008 | 22 comments
10. Harnessing Entrepreneurial Manic-Depression: Making the Rollercoaster Work for You (fourhourworkweek.com)
23 points by lennysan on Oct 4, 2008 | 4 comments
11. Capitalism to the Rescue - Green Tech Rising (nytimes.com)
21 points by prakash on Oct 4, 2008 | 4 comments
12. Learning how to reverse engineer a Windows USB driver: the Luxeed LED keyboard (jespersaur.com)
21 points by kirubakaran on Oct 4, 2008 | 2 comments
13. Amazon Kindle 2 on its way (boygeniusreport.com)
16 points by nreece on Oct 4, 2008 | 19 comments
14. High Priority Free Software Projects (fsf.org)
15 points by kirubakaran on Oct 4, 2008 | 4 comments
15. Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people (physorg.com)
15 points by prakash on Oct 4, 2008
16. Zeitgeist 2: Addendum (video.google.com)
13 points by Dauntless on Oct 4, 2008 | 5 comments
17. Some reasons why I left the ACM (zenspider.com)
13 points by qhoxie on Oct 4, 2008 | 4 comments
18. Xtc — eXTensible C (nyu.edu)
13 points by neilc on Oct 4, 2008 | 1 comment
19. Should I use XMPP for my startup's messaging system?
12 points by shutter on Oct 4, 2008 | 13 comments
20. Open source implementation of Google PageRank (aspseek.org)
12 points by known on Oct 4, 2008 | 8 comments
21. Stephen Fry on cloud computing (guardian.co.uk)
12 points by razorburn on Oct 4, 2008 | 1 comment
22. Insecure Minds Wired for Pattern-Finding (discovery.com)
11 points by nickb on Oct 4, 2008 | 4 comments
23. Look for the guy with a hammer (sethgodin.typepad.com)
10 points by noodle on Oct 4, 2008
24. Creating Relationships (bjoernw.squarespace.com)
10 points by bjoernw on Oct 4, 2008 | 2 comments
25. Open Document Format made national standard in Sweden (redhatmagazine.com)
9 points by nreece on Oct 4, 2008
26. Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers (oswego.edu)
7 points by martian on Oct 4, 2008 | 5 comments
27. How do bloggers make money and how much do they make? (slate.com)
7 points by robg on Oct 4, 2008
28. Image said to reveal an "unknown" tribe instead exposes our ignorance and greed. (seedmagazine.com)
6 points by robg on Oct 4, 2008
29. Skinny Request, Fat Backend (last100meters.com)
6 points by pius on Oct 4, 2008
30. How Will We Interact with the Web of Data? (computer.org)
6 points by prakash on Oct 4, 2008 | 1 comment

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