Most of the World is currently glued to their TV watching the Chilean mine rescue. This is frankly a beautiful moment. It is like a horrible schmaltzy movie, only it's real and without some kind of forced tragedy and totally real.
Usually when the world unites around an event it is in shock or sadness - 9/11, the Boxing Day Earthquake, the Haiti earthquake. Here however is an international symbol of human endurance, of people genuinely caring for one another. It's been enough to just about wash away my cynicism - at least for a bit.
Good on the miners, and good for anybody who feels immensely proud of them.
But on a quick note, there are reports that they were all given iPods by Steve Job himself, but they weren't allowed to have them in the mine in case they used the distraction to separate themselves from the group. What a nice gesture from the, apparently, meanest man in tech. But then ago, what model did they get? A Touch? Brilliant. A Classic? Alright. The new Nano? How heartless can you be?
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