Headlines - September 20, 2010

Since I don't possess a TV or subscribe to a newspaper delivery or broadband, my only source of what is happening on this Big Blue Marble is at work. Helpful exclamations from colleagues, business alerts and my personal favourite, the Beeb online and today has offered up a rather interesting collection of news items.

I'm thrilled by the report on the discovery of an apparent colony of tigers in significantly higher altitudes of the Himalayas in Bhutan and a full family at that. Now if we can only keep the poachers from finding them. As usual, I wonder at the consumers that pay for the imagined miraculous properties that their bodies will bestow and conjure up cruel and creative ways to punish them. But for now, the sight of the big male sniffing his territory makes me smile and the thought of a lactating female makes me want to gush like a dotty old spinster aunt - babies!!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8998000/8998042.stm

I wallow in the tigers for a while before moving on to the intriguing headline of the Top 10 Unanswerable questions and my bemusement knows no bounds. I really do worry about the future of the human race if these are the most compelling questions that plague that part of the population that can read, write and have access to technology.....
1. What is the meaning of life?
2. Is there a God?
3. Do blondes have more fun?
4. What is the best diet?
5. Is there anybody out there?
6. Who is the most famous person in the world?
7. What is love?
8. What is the secret to happiness?
9. Did Tony Soprano die?
10. How long will I live?

Siiiiigh. Hopefully long enough to realise that falling asleep on the job when you're a thief is an unsound career move http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11361067

Well, at least there's some levity from the deaths from landslides, train crashes and election results that make you wish our DNA mutated to that of the tigers.