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1.
How To Make The World's Easiest $1 Billion (businessinsider.com)
123 points by bobbyi on Dec 13, 2009 | 39 comments
2.
Diagrammr - create diagrams by writing sentences (diagrammr.com)
103 points by gnosis on Dec 13, 2009 | 47 comments
3.
Writing is Thinking (petermichaud.com)
91 points by pmichaud on Dec 13, 2009 | 35 comments
4.
Nuclear's next generation (economist.com)
90 points by pg on Dec 13, 2009 | 32 comments
5.
Is Facebook unethical, clueless or unlucky? (calacanis.com)
79 points by flapjack on Dec 13, 2009 | 96 comments
6.
Schopenhauer - On thinking for oneself (adelaide.edu.au)
76 points by Arun2009 on Dec 13, 2009 | 37 comments
7.
Help save MySQL (monty-says.blogspot.com)
76 points by bytebot on Dec 13, 2009 | 57 comments
8.
GWT 2.0: So good it's ridiculous (timepedia.blogspot.com)
72 points by mindaugas on Dec 13, 2009 | 46 comments
9.
Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes? (daringfireball.net)
55 points by aditya on Dec 13, 2009 | 24 comments
10.
Advanced programming languages (Haskell, Scala, SML, OCaml, Scheme) (might.net)
52 points by gnosis on Dec 13, 2009 | 44 comments
11.
Google has become a snake that too readily consumes its own keyword tail (kedrosky.com)
46 points by cwan on Dec 13, 2009 | 28 comments
12.
The man who invented exercise - epidemiologist Jerry Morris (ft.com)
45 points by arihelgason on Dec 13, 2009 | 21 comments
13.
A circular sieve of eratosthenes to visualize prime numbers (sievesofchaos.com)
44 points by nobody_nowhere on Dec 13, 2009 | 6 comments
14.
The end of hand crafted content (techcrunch.com)
41 points by cwan on Dec 13, 2009 | 15 comments
15.
Most Popular DIY Projects of 2009 (lifehacker.com)
40 points by ypavan on Dec 13, 2009
16.
Need icons for filetypes? Hotlink from stdicon.com (blogrium.wordpress.com)
37 points by progrium on Dec 13, 2009 | 23 comments
17.
The Mpemba Effect (wikipedia.org)
36 points by splat on Dec 13, 2009 | 15 comments
18.
JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language (2001) (crockford.com)
35 points by mark_l_watson on Dec 13, 2009 | 34 comments
19.
New Ruby Libraries (rubyinside.com)
34 points by madh on Dec 13, 2009 | 1 comment
20.
How Python is killing Lisp (ynniv.com)
33 points by pmiller2 on Dec 13, 2009 | 66 comments
21.
22 musical pieces written with 140 characters of code (sourceforge.net)
33 points by Paton on Dec 13, 2009 | 21 comments
22.
Twitter finally in the money with Google link (timesonline.co.uk)
32 points by mun411 on Dec 13, 2009 | 12 comments
23.
Next-generation Linux file systems: NiLFS(2) and exofs (ibm.com)
31 points by gnosis on Dec 13, 2009 | 2 comments
24.
How IE8 claims full CSS support is beyond me. (jhop.me)
30 points by drhowarddrfine on Dec 13, 2009 | 8 comments
25.
Persistent Trees in Git, Clojure, and CouchDB (eclipsesource.com)
28 points by swannodette on Dec 13, 2009 | 2 comments
26.
XML-RPC client module for Node.js (uses libxml.js) (github.com/caludio)
27 points by caludio on Dec 13, 2009 | 7 comments
27.
Flood Could Have Filled Mediterranean In Less Than Two Years (sciencenews.org)
27 points by soundsop on Dec 13, 2009 | 2 comments
28.
Spacewalking Astronauts seen from Earth (wired.com)
27 points by t3rcio on Dec 13, 2009 | 3 comments
29.
Google Faces a Different World in Italy (nytimes.com)
25 points by madh on Dec 13, 2009 | 10 comments
30.
Wordpress.com implements Twitter API (for posting and reading) (blog.wordpress.com)
25 points by praxxis on Dec 13, 2009 | 1 comment

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