Everybody loves cute pygmy elephants don't they? This story is about the new species found in Borneo - well, found is a misnomer, they knew they were there all along, but it took until DNA tests to discover they were a new species and not a population of domesticated Indian elephants transplanted by the Sultan of Sabu LOL.
And among the usual flooding stories this time of year from India (it is monsoon season after all), this is a more positive one than usual. 534 passengers were saved from a flooded train where they had been for two and a half days, and the water was up to their necks. Gujarat state is getting the worst of it it seems this year - hmm, Gujarat, trains, no let's not go down that track with the communal violence a couple of years ago.
Hmm, the Australian telecast of the highlights of the Live8 concerts is on tonight at 8.30 - this Guardian piece is pretty good stuff though, sounds like it went off a treat. Maybe my cynicism will disappear when I watch it myself, as it seems to have with those that were actually at Hyde Park. And maybe now all those Make Poverty History buttons all over the internet will finally be taken down LOL, one can but hope :) Yep, Pauly, a bit of a way to go on that cynicism just at the moment. All very well to start off with it was twenty years ago today, but what has the West been doing in that twenty years LOL. Has the US defence budget gone down any?
As I said, I better wait and see what I can of the concerts before I am cynical about it all again LOL. After watching this week's eviction in Big Brother of course - somehow those two thoughts shouldn't run in my head one immediately after the other - African debt and Live 8, Big Brother, my brain is about to explode LOL.
Anything that gets Nelson Mandela as a key spokesman can't be all bad. Even if we do have to put up with the rock stars - Bob Geldof annoys the fuck out of me, scuse my French LOL. Will Smith also apparently had a good concert.
'There were problems of course. As with any [Richard] Curtis movie - do you remember Andie McDowell at the end of Four Weddings with 'Is it raining? I hadn't noticed...' - there were cringes. Chris Martin's reedy needfulness, trying to work 'Rockin' All Over The World' into one of his dirges. Bono, changing his lyrics to 'God speed your love to... Africa...' the hushed tones of which had me thinking of the fine words of Homer Simpson: 'Rock stars. Is there anything they don't know?'
But then, suddenly, there was more great music, and more astonishing people, and it just went on. Kofi Annan. Bill Gates, who confused us somewhat by wishing for the world to become a better place before inexpicably introducing Dido. And then Will Smith in Philadelphia, getting ever concert to say hello to each other, talking with style and gusto about interdependence, and winning astonishing cheers from around the world.
And, as twilight drew in, the power of music itself, despite all the new names on stage, unheard of if not unborn back in 1985, it was Madonna who really kick-started the Hyde Park concert with some good old thumpy, dancy stuff rather than what I think modern musicians refer to as 'maundering jangles'.'
Sounds like a good time, will see what Aussie TV makes of it later in the night.
Later peeps
Pauly
'The pygmy elephant has an appealing rounded appearance, and is thought to stand about 2.4 metres tall, as much as 60 centimetres shorter than elephants found elsewhere in Asia.
Their faces are smaller and squarer, their tails are longer, reaching almost to the ground, and their tusks are straighter.
"They are quite cute to look at... they seem like a younger, chubbier version of the Asian elephant," said Christy Williams, WWF's coordinator for elephant conservation programs in Asia.
Another major difference is their good temperament; they are thought to be more docile even than the Asian elephant which is famously cooperative and hardworking compared to the larger, more aggressive African subspecies which is rarely tamed.'
Everybody, time for an awww - awwwww LOL.And among the usual flooding stories this time of year from India (it is monsoon season after all), this is a more positive one than usual. 534 passengers were saved from a flooded train where they had been for two and a half days, and the water was up to their necks. Gujarat state is getting the worst of it it seems this year - hmm, Gujarat, trains, no let's not go down that track with the communal violence a couple of years ago.
Hmm, the Australian telecast of the highlights of the Live8 concerts is on tonight at 8.30 - this Guardian piece is pretty good stuff though, sounds like it went off a treat. Maybe my cynicism will disappear when I watch it myself, as it seems to have with those that were actually at Hyde Park. And maybe now all those Make Poverty History buttons all over the internet will finally be taken down LOL, one can but hope :) Yep, Pauly, a bit of a way to go on that cynicism just at the moment. All very well to start off with it was twenty years ago today, but what has the West been doing in that twenty years LOL. Has the US defence budget gone down any?
As I said, I better wait and see what I can of the concerts before I am cynical about it all again LOL. After watching this week's eviction in Big Brother of course - somehow those two thoughts shouldn't run in my head one immediately after the other - African debt and Live 8, Big Brother, my brain is about to explode LOL.
Anything that gets Nelson Mandela as a key spokesman can't be all bad. Even if we do have to put up with the rock stars - Bob Geldof annoys the fuck out of me, scuse my French LOL. Will Smith also apparently had a good concert.
'There were problems of course. As with any [Richard] Curtis movie - do you remember Andie McDowell at the end of Four Weddings with 'Is it raining? I hadn't noticed...' - there were cringes. Chris Martin's reedy needfulness, trying to work 'Rockin' All Over The World' into one of his dirges. Bono, changing his lyrics to 'God speed your love to... Africa...' the hushed tones of which had me thinking of the fine words of Homer Simpson: 'Rock stars. Is there anything they don't know?'
But then, suddenly, there was more great music, and more astonishing people, and it just went on. Kofi Annan. Bill Gates, who confused us somewhat by wishing for the world to become a better place before inexpicably introducing Dido. And then Will Smith in Philadelphia, getting ever concert to say hello to each other, talking with style and gusto about interdependence, and winning astonishing cheers from around the world.
And, as twilight drew in, the power of music itself, despite all the new names on stage, unheard of if not unborn back in 1985, it was Madonna who really kick-started the Hyde Park concert with some good old thumpy, dancy stuff rather than what I think modern musicians refer to as 'maundering jangles'.'
Sounds like a good time, will see what Aussie TV makes of it later in the night.
Later peeps
Pauly
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