Blogging your life away
www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25internet-t.html?ref=magazine
Emily Gould narrates what she gained and lost by blogging about intimate details of her life

Killer spared from murder
www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2250765020080523
The parole board in the US of georgia spared convicted killer hours before he was due to die by lethal injec

mom caged her son, she gets 20 years behind bars
edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/23/caged.teen.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
A mother was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for keeping her 17-year-old adopted son caged in her home. She pleaded guilty in January to three counts of aggravated child abuse.

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Permanent Breakfast, a project started by an Austrian artist, is a way to bring people together to have breakfast in public spaces that are not necessarily obvious picnic spots.The rule is that the organizer must invite at least four people under the condition that each one of them subsequently invites four other people for a new breakfast to be held somewhere else. And so on.
http://www.guerrilla-innovation.com/archives/2008/04/000651.php

A car dealer in Missouri is giving out a free handgun with every car or truck bought, as a promotion. Business has soared.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKN2249853620080522?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews

A californian biotech company BioArts International is holding an unusual auction, called Best Friends Again. With bidding starting at $100,000, the company promises to clone your dog!
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/biotech-company-to-auction-dog-cloning/