International Water Cooler (7/23/10) –Sunny Edition

I just want to mention some good news today.  Because I was so deep and dark yesterday.

• “India unveils ‘laptop’ costing $35 (The Guardian, 7/23/10)

While we might scratch our heads and say why would anybody want a $35 laptop, it would be good to keep in mind that about 86% of Indians live on less than $2 a day.  The down side to all this is that I’m now feeling even guiltier about what I paid for my MacBook.

• Butterflies: out of the blue (The Guardian, 7/18/10)

The Blue Butterfly is back in Britain, baby!! Yeah!! ::Read aloud in a bad Austin Powers impersonation for full effect::

Enterprising conservationists were able to bring this species back from extinction.  (Did I use the word “species” there correctly?)  Anyway, this makes me feel better about the future as well as being a human… being.  We might mess stuff up, but, we can fix stuff, too.  I know, that was deep, yo.

• “Leonardo DiCaprio In ‘Rolling Stone’: Shirtless & Talking Women (Huffington Post, 7/21/10)

I know, are the women talking and shirtless?  No, actually, Leonardo DiCaprio took his shirt off.  And this?  Is always good news.  Come on.  You know you want to look.  And, yes, this is TOO news of international proportions.

• “Refusing to Quit the Tour de France” (The Lede, NYT, 07/21/10)

Good for him.  It’s taking a lot of energy for me NOT to write something sarcastic about how blood spurting from your arm is a good excuse to stop and clearly this man has some acute form of a mental illness.  Oops.

So?  What good news did you hear about?  Or bad?  Feel free to join in.