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Water Cooler / Good story. Mine's better.

« on: August 13, 2018, 08:01:24 PM »

Parents Break Teen Out Of Mayo Clinic

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/08/13/teenager-escape-mayo-clinic/

Worth a read. sh## happens.

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Marketing / The tangled mess of marketing networks is crumbling

« on: August 12, 2018, 05:31:17 PM »

"an uber-fragmented network of creatives and developers is fast emerging, making up a vast eco-system of marketing providers delivering specialist services that will compliment brands’ increasingly in-housed teams."

https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/08/12/the-tangled-mess-of-marketing-networks-is-crumbling/

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Marketing / Move over millennials, it’s Gen Z’s turn to kill off industries

« on: August 12, 2018, 12:22:41 PM »

Worth a quick read. Interesting stats on US clothing market.

http://www2.philly.com/philly/business/move-over-millennials-its-gen-zs-turn-to-kill-off-industries-20180812.html

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Hardware & Technology / Impossible Foods is making 500,000 pounds of fake meat a month

« on: August 08, 2018, 06:11:33 PM »

https://www.fastcompany.com/90214790/impossible-foods-is-making-500000-pounds-of-fake-meat-a-month

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Web Development / Facebook blocking automatic cross-posts

« on: August 03, 2018, 01:41:13 AM »

"It doesn’t seem like Twitter users looking for other workarounds will have much success either, given this situation. Other apps, like IFTTT, for example, are throwing errors as of today, too."

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/01/psa-cross-posting-tweets-to-facebook-no-longer-works-as-of-today/

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Economics & Investing / Condé Nast selling off mags after $120,000,000 loss

« on: August 02, 2018, 09:43:43 PM »

https://boingboing.net/2018/08/02/conde-nast-selling-off-mags-af.html

What a shock to their system, eh?

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Water Cooler / Free steel

« on: August 02, 2018, 03:34:34 PM »

Police looking for 241 bikes missing from sharing program

http://www.hastingstribune.com/police-looking-for-bikes-missing-from-sharing-program/article_4e1629b3-7637-589b-97df-88be430a07c5.html

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Water Cooler / UKers, please define: commercial refuse bag

« on: August 02, 2018, 03:24:59 PM »

Roofer fined £300 for carrying sandwich wrappers and crisp packets in his van

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/02/roofer-fined-300-carrying-sandwich-wrappers-crisp-packets-van/

I understand that fly-tipping is a big problem in some rural areas. But, except for the imprint on the side, this guy's trash bag looks like a typical plastic bag carried in millions of vehicles here in the US.

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Water Cooler / History has failed almost everybody who is ordinary

« on: August 02, 2018, 03:03:22 PM »

Min Jin Lee.

"I am also arguing that the discipline of history has failed. It is not that historians aren’t doing their jobs but rather that the memory of history has been reconstructed by the elite, because the overwhelming majority of ordinary people rarely leave sufficient primary documents; they do not have others recording their lives in real time."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/02/min-jin-lee-interview-frederick-douglass-200

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