The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week

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1. Shake Shake Shake, Shake Shake Shake, Shake Your Buddha

The nuttiest thing happened this week: A company under the microscope at the Five Dumbest Things Research Lab acknowledged that its behavior was indeed dumb.

This sort of admission doesn't happen too often. In fact, the last time we remember such a confession was 17 months ago, when CNBC decided that airing penis-enlargement product commercials wasn't a win-win proposition after all.

This time around, the apologetic company is salesforce.com, the customer relationship-management company run by Oracle (ORCL Quote) veteran Marc Benioff. The company, which positions its products as an alternative to software installed on customers' computers, goes by the motto "Success. Not software."

Salesforce.com first got our attention two weeks ago when it sent us a poster of His Holiness the Dalai Lama -- the spiritual leader of the Government of Tibet in Exile.

The poster, which mentioned contributions to the Tibet Fund and the American Himalayan Foundation, invited recipients to a Sept. 5 appearance by the Dalai Lama. It also contained a nice little plug for salesforce.com: Above the picture of the meditatively posed Dalai Lama was the headline "There Is No Software on the Path to Enlightenment." ...