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1.		AppJet (YC co) Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze (techcrunch.com)
		58 points by terpua on Dec 12, 2007 \| 36 comments
2.		Art of Money Getting, by P. T. Barnum (actual book, 1880) (fourmilab.ch)
		32 points by hhm on Dec 12, 2007 \| 12 comments
3.		How Super-Precise Atomic Clocks Will Change the World in a Decade (wired.com)
		23 points by nickb on Dec 12, 2007 \| 5 comments
4.		PriceAdvance Beta Launch (priceadvance.com)
		23 points by rrival on Dec 12, 2007 \| 25 comments
5.		For the game designers and players: this is the best list of well-designed flash games (goodexperience.com)
		19 points by kf on Dec 12, 2007 \| 6 comments
6.		Why Reddit is broken, and how to fix it (codeulate.com)
		21 points by jonnytran on Dec 12, 2007 \| 21 comments
7.		A child's view of the $100 laptop (bbc.co.uk)
		19 points by Poleris on Dec 12, 2007 \| 3 comments
8.		Internships at any time of your life (sharpshoot.blogspot.com)
		19 points by sharpshoot on Dec 12, 2007 \| 10 comments
9.		Disqus: Scoble, Winer and Fred Wilson Like it, Why I Don't (blogbusinesssummit.com)
		17 points by nickb on Dec 12, 2007 \| 24 comments
10.		Mars rover finds signs of microbial life habitat (telegraph.co.uk)
		13 points by ingenium on Dec 12, 2007 \| 31 comments
11.		Where Are All the Qualified Programmers? (slickedit.com)
		14 points by nickb on Dec 12, 2007 \| 24 comments
12.		The man behind the Commodore 64 (news.com)
		14 points by gibsonf1 on Dec 12, 2007 \| 7 comments
13.		Edgeio CEO Keith Teare "...our investors pulled the plug WAY too early..." (techcrunch.com)
		13 points by staunch on Dec 12, 2007 \| 8 comments
14.		The Next Social Network: WordPress (gigaom.com)
		11 points by shayan on Dec 12, 2007 \| 4 comments
15.		xkcd - Nerd Sniping (xkcd.com)
		10 points by nickb on Dec 12, 2007 \| 10 comments
16.		It's like Hot or Not for Websites (commandshift3.com)
		10 points by wmeredith on Dec 12, 2007 \| 10 comments
17.		Why Facebook is not the future of the web (oreillynet.com)
		9 points by bootload on Dec 12, 2007 \| 10 comments
18.		Penthouse Snags AdultFriendFinder for $500 Million (thealarmclock.com)
		9 points by sbraford on Dec 12, 2007 \| 6 comments
19.		Ajaxian interviews Appjet founder Aaron Iba (ajaxian.com)
		7 points by kkim on Dec 12, 2007 \| 1 comment
20.		The Daily WTF changes its name back to "The Daily WTF" (thedailywtf.com)
		8 points by nickb on Dec 12, 2007 \| 1 comment
21.		Pygooglechart: Python wrapper for Google charts API (slowchop.com)
		8 points by iamelgringo on Dec 12, 2007 \| 5 comments
22.		Sega and NeuroSky To Make Mind-Controlled Toys (wired.com)
		7 points by shayan on Dec 12, 2007 \| 1 comment
23.		Coding Horror: Blacklists Don't Work (codinghorror.com)
		6 points by nickb on Dec 12, 2007 \| 3 comments
24.		Meet the New Problem... Same as the old Problem (lispy.wordpress.com)
		6 points by drm237 on Dec 12, 2007
25.		"w00t" crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary (yahoo.com)
		6 points by gscott on Dec 12, 2007 \| 6 comments
26.		What I've Learned from Sales, Part II: Wanna Bet? (raganwald.com)
		7 points by iamelgringo on Dec 12, 2007
27.		Google Checkout Tries To Ring Up Market-Share Gains With Free Transactions (techcrunch.com)
		5 points by nickb on Dec 12, 2007 \| 2 comments
28.		Scientist who sparked racism row has black genes (independent.co.uk)
		5 points by Dauntless on Dec 12, 2007 \| 5 comments
29.		Toshiba launching SCiB batteries in March: 5 min charge, 10 year lifespan (engadget.com)
		5 points by ingenium on Dec 12, 2007 \| 3 comments
30.		Adam's Manifesto (from Xobni) (xobni.com)
		4 points by dshah on Dec 12, 2007
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