Spain's High Court has ordered the seizure of all copies of a magazine that carried a cartoon of Crown Prince Felipe and his wife having sex.
Gotta love those punning headlines (or not..done too common, it sounds trite and boring!)
Kenyan producer flush with praise & awards for his film set in a toilet!
Sucks to be Google: 58% growth and yet Wall Street frowns and media analysts start talking about a Google backlash!
Google missed earnings estimates by a hair's-breadth after the market close. Its 2007 second-quarter revenue rose an astonishing 58 percent -- yet analysts had set the bar even higher, at 60 percent. Google CEO Schmidt admitted Thursday that the company's hiring binge hurt second-quarter profits.
Potato-Shatatoe: Amflora potatoes have become the unlikely poster child in the angry debate over genetically modified products in Europe.
Of “pervert methods” and the “sporting life”: Karen Abbott’s Sin in the Second City offers an in-depth look at the prostitution trade in Chicago in the early 1900s. (Found via an interview with Abbott at the Freakonomics blog.)
The Power of Branding: An analysis of almost 250 Indian brands. Check out the “Categories” in his sidebar. (-via.)
The father of spam: A marketeer from DEC, who sent a message to over 600 people via the Arpanet network in 1978, is believed to be the first-ever spammer. Woe!
“It is our illusions that create the world”(ref): At the “most fundamental level of physical reality”....it seems, time may not exist! The rishis were right - sab maaya hai (it’s all an illusion.)
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