South Korean labor leader Cheong Ok-soon explained the action to the local press: Everywhere you go in the world, fast-food workers are suffering with low wages, long hours and unstable employment.
Son Ok-soon, a human rights activist and the author of a book describing the hardships of life in the North, is said to have appeared in a 20-minute video interview expressing regret for criticising and leaving the DPRK regime.
But since Mr Anderson's statement, traders on the international market have been betting that BHP will get out of Ok Tedi soon, and that the mine will be shut down, taking about 200,000 tonnes of annual capacity out of the market.
What begins in a gesture toward the permissive forms of received tradition (McSweeney begins with a query: "Is it ok... ..) soon becomes a neo-Whitmanesque self-admonition ("I loaf and invite myself to lock and load").
Ach, it was soon OK though.
Hello! and OK! called as soon as the news of their engagement got into the papers, and were told in no uncertain terms to go away.
Anderson told Screen International that it charts a watershed moment, narcotics-wise: "It's that idea that when you're smoking weed everything is OK, but as soon as heroin comes in everything is changed and everything is fucked, and that's sad".
But that's OK, because as soon as RIM worked out they need to dump their crappy home-grown browser and replace it with a WebKit-based one, they decided that they weren't going to do any native apps any more and that developers needed to use BlackBerry WebWorks.
Instead of a 12-megapixel DSLR, most of us are happy with a camera that takes an OK picture as soon as everyone in the frame is smiling.
These children will never have a chance at a normal life, but that's OK, because pretty soon "normal lives" won't exist in the new world our lax parenting and hyper-accessible tech is inadvertently building.
8.08pm: OK, we spoke too soon.
