Daily Mail: "Schoolchildren near 'suicide hotspot' set homework of planning their own funerals
Children from a school near Bridgend were set a homework project to plan their own funerals, it was revealed today.

The pupils as young as 12 were asked to decide what music they would like played and what they would want the mourners to wear at their own memorial service.

It was condemned by a furious mother today - just a day another nearby school asked children to write their own suicide note.

The school has apologised to mother Sharon Vaughan after her daughter Lauren, 12, was told to plan her funeral - and then given detention when she refused."

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Stuff.co.nz: "Scientists trekking across a little visited part of Antarctica have discovered a bizarre relic of the Soviet Union is dominating the South Pole of Inaccessibility. In the middle of no-where – literally the point on Antarctica furthest from the sea – an imposing bust of revolutionary Bolshevik Vladimir Lenin peers out onto the polar emptiness."

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Gesagt, getan - Die Festplatte wird Hackerinsel

"The Local" from Sweden reports: Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own nation in an attempt to circumvent international copyright laws.
The group has set up a campaign to raise money to buy Sealand, a former British naval platform in the North Sea that has been designated a 'micronation', and claims to be outside the jurisdiction of the UK or any other country."

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Was lesen wir da? Aha, eine Tagung in Bielefeld und Second Life: Mittelständische Unternehmen profitieren von Web 2.0 und Social Software. Und dabei wissen wir: Bielefeld existiert gar nicht! Und "Second Life" eigentlich auch nicht. Eben! Alles Schwindel!

Und das nennen die feinen Herren dann wohl Arbeit!