Xconomy reports.

And that's not a good thing, the Boston Business Journal reports.

CommonWealth interviews some of the people who will write your term papers and essays for you - for a fee.

School-bus drivers coated in cement dust after a 2006 explosion at a Charlestown cement plant have filed a series of lawsuits against the plant's owners, charging the dust contained beryllium, which can cause a potentially fatal lung ailment.

Which one could it be? It's not Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where the blogging, tweeting CEO just posted a copy of the memo from his counterpart at another hospital. He stripped out the name, so we don't know if it's a massively gigantic hospital across town, but we hear from another source that Mt. Auburn Hospital also banned its employees from the social networks last week.

Effective immediately, the Hospital is blocking access to social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter from all Hospital computers.

The decision is based on recent evidence that some employees have been using these sites to comment on Hospital business, which is a violation of the Hospital's Electronic Communications policy and a potential HIPAA violation. ...

Alecia Batson reports an ad she shot last month is now airing in Maine as part of a campaign over some political issue none of us will know about:

Take a look at this notice for a photo shoot - they're looking for a black man between 55 and 90 with thinning gray hair, "mobile enough to lay on the ground comfortably
in a fallen position during shoot" - and overweight black men and women between 60 and 80. Pay is $1,000 a day for a 10-hour day.

Via Chanie.

Blue Mass. Group has the details.

A company in downtown Boston is looking for somebody experienced in content management systems. Sure, yawn if you must, but look at what they're doing:

Book of Odds Enterprises, Inc. is a start-up company creating a unique database of statistical information that will serve as a base for a dedicated website. The work is groundbreaking in its conception and will create a new fundamental reference work. Fifty man-years of research, done to academic standards but translated into easily understood terms, has produced over 500,000 Odds Statements about the details of daily life and a remarkable semantic database.

Is there a school for it somewhere? Because somebody making a commercial is looking for adults with experience in mascot costumes.

Experience in mascot costumes? The post doesn't specify, but presumably that means experience with a) walking forward with limited vision, b) Not fainting in the heat and c) Not pummeling annoying children who come up to you.

Via Steve Garfield.