BlindFish Ideas

Today I went to a place called Tiger Kingdom in Chiang Mai. This is a tiger breeding centre that runs on the money generated by tourist paying to spend time in tiger cages with semi-tame tigers. Now they may look like over sized cats but they are not domestic animals. They have been around humans their whole life and are very relaxed with them but they are not completely safe and must be supervised. They would not bite someone for food but might nip them in playing. Apart from the smallest 2 month old tigers you will see us usually sitting behind the tigers and avoiding the head. This is both for our safety and because the care staff don't want the tigers to catch anything from us by their mouth getting too close to us. Visitors can only interact with adolescent tigers under 2 years old. After that they can be less playful and more grumpy. So the tigers retire across the country with other breeding centre and reserves. All the tigers we saw looked very h...

Google 'seaview' coming to the great barrier reef Google has a long standing aim to organise the information of the world. Notice that their aim is not to be the worlds best search engine. Nothing so narrow. Google thinks big. They want to index and organise everything then serve it up (with adverts attached) for our pleasure and education. I cant wait to explore the Seaview and the reefs. If the destruction of the reefs continue this record of the reef may prove to be a vital record of a part of our natural history.