OOF – Out of Food

A tribal language thought to have existed for 65,000 years has disapperead forever in India’s Andaman Islands, taken to the grave with its last speaker. According to the indigenous advocacy group Survival International, Boa Senior, the last member of the Bo tribe, died last week at the age of 85.

One of the 10 Great Andamanese tribes that are considered indigenous inhabitants of these islands 700 miles east of the Indian mainland, the Bo tribe spoke a language which is thought to date back to pre-Neolithic times and possibly to the first settlement of the region by modern humans.

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Marion Gordon “Pat” Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the Christian Coalition, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment Inc., Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, and Regent University. He is the host of The 700 Club, a Christian TV program airing on channels throughout the United States and on CBN affiliates worldwide. Wiki

Desiree Jennings fully recovered from her ailment. Full scoop here.

Start practicing your celebrations early with the Adidas Jabulani Ball ($150), the official match ball of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Built with only eight thermally bonded 3-D panels, the ball sports impressive aero grooves and 11 different colors, representing the 11 players on a team, the 11 official languages of South Africa, and the 11 South African communities.

In future an immigrant arriving in Germany and wishing to stay may have to sign an “integration contract”. That is the idea of the Integration Minister, Maria Boehmer.

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Facebook seems to have contributed to countless broken love affairs, divorces, and insane levels of jealousy. People pry into your friend lists and updates until they sometimes reach conclusions far beyond reality. How lovely, then, that a mere status update appears to have saved a Harlem man from jail.

According to The New York Times, Rodney Bradford decided to update his status with a call from the soul. “Where’s my pancakes?” is the Times’ translation of a status update it says was written in “indecipherable street slang.” The fact that Bradford did this at 11:49 a.m. on October 17, using his father’s computer, meant that he would not have to suffer pancakes of a more distasteful nature in the local penitentiary.

Bradford, you see, was arrested the next day for robbery. However, after he was booked, his lawyer was intelligent enough to update the district attorney with news of Bradford’s Facebooking.

According to the Jedi code, there is no emotion, there is peace; there is no ignorance, there is knowledge; and there is no death, there is the force. Oh, and if you’re shopping for some Wookiee Cookies at your local supermarket, there is no hood.

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Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system and it may be a little close for comfort. It’s on our moon, right nearby. NASA’s new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is making the first complete temperature map of the moon. It found that at the moon’s south pole, it’s colder than far away Pluto. The area is inside craters that are permanently shadowed so they never see sun.

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