Tom sent news of the crazy dolphin whale rescue. No, the dolphin wasn't crazy, and there wasn't a big rescue of the mythical dolphin-whale, but there was a rescue of two stranded whales in New Zealand this week. By a dolphin.

The whales were in trouble, and conservation officer Malcolm Smith sometimes has to put down whales once they become beached. This time around, the local dolphin (a regular in these parts, to the point where the locals call her Moko) swam up, calmed the whales down and led them back out to sea.

This story made the rounds a fair bit on the news, so I can guarantee at least one thing: a significant percentage of the people who discussed it at lunch did so over fish and chips or something similarly disconnected. It's depressing, but we need to pay attention to that and figure out how to break that pattern.