- VP of Palo Alto’s SAP Arrested in LEGO Bar Code Scam | NBC Bay Area
Californian business executive caught putting fake barcodes on Lego boxes, so he could take them to the til and buy them for less. "This probably happens more often than you'd think," says a police representative. (dopost crime lego )
- Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review | Art and design | The Guardian
"The last time I saw paintings as deluded as Damien Hirst's latest works, the artist's name was Saif al-Islam Gaddafi." ….And it goes downhill from there. (review art damien_hirst )
- EXCLUSIVE: Here’s The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO – Business Insider
"[Facebook] basically pre-announced that its second quarter would fall short of analysts' estimates. But it only told the underwriter analysts about this." (financials dopost facebook ipo )
- Twitter / pocahontasshole: Tattoo of Leviticus 18:22
"Tattoo of Leviticus 18:22 forbidding homosexuality: £200. Not knowing that Leviticus 19:28 forbids tattoos: Priceless." (homosexuality tattoo photograph humour )
- Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes | Grist
"Martha Payne had some sad-ass lunches at her school in Scotland — unsatisfying food that sometimes had more hair than vegetables. So the 9-year-old decided to start a blog with photos and vital statistics about her meals. [...] Result? Martha’s dad just met with the local council, and it announced that kids could have unlimited salad, fruit, and bread." (blogging nutrition food schools )
- Cameron brings back slavery
"PRIME Minister David Cameron has announced business-friendly changes to UK employment laws including the reintroduction of slavery." Great article, with a totally faithful quote from the CBI. (david_cameron employment slavery humour )
- The Facebook Fallacy – Technology Review
Harsh stuff from Michael Wolff: "For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site. Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web." (dopost facebook advertising )
- Amazon v newspaper: which is the more valuable review? | Books | guardian.co.uk
"My first book, The English Monster, came out in March. I now know that the thing first-time authors crave above all else – above food, water and love – is attention. And you're more likely to get that from Amazon reviewers than from newspaper critics, for the simple reason that more books are published now than at any other time in history, and there's only so much room for them in the pages (actual and virtual) of the press." (amazon lloyd_shepherd books reviews )
- Salesforce.com has no ERP offering in the pipeline
"Cloud provider Salesforce.com claims to have no current plans to move into the enterprise resource planning (ERP) space currently occupied by incumbents SAP and Oracle. [...] “We are going through a painful Oracle financials upgrade and it reminds me how much I don’t like software,”" (dopost salesforce.com erp oracle )
- » Announcing n0tice.org – the open journalism toolkit n0tice
"Today is an important day in the n0tice journey. We are opening up the platform for publishers, brands, communities and developers. [...] The tools on offer enable a range of different capabilities for any type of media partner — from large publishing organisations to brands running engagement campaigns to local and special interest communities to media platform developers who need open APIs to build things. These are the same tools we use for n0tice.com and the soon-to-be-released iPhone app." (openness journalism dopost launch api n0tice )
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