New Site of the Week: Eagle Eye

I saw this on a friend's facebook page and thought it was one of the coolest uses of a webcam I have ever seen. 

It's a camera (active during daylight hours only) pointed directly at an eagles' nest. Three babies hatched in March, and you can see them develop right before your eyes. I can't embed the camera directly (or at least I don't know how), so you 'll have to visit the link. But I saw the mother and babies just hanging out together earlier today. I would love to see it when the babies learn to fly . . . although how much will actually show up on camera I really don't know.

Anyway, it's just cool.

New Site of the Week - White People Blog

If you read only one blog today . . . dude, seriously, this one? But if you read only one more blog today, I would highly recommend this blog about Stuff White People Like. It is hilarious. Every post triggers at least one of two reactions: 1. Ha! White people are so ridiculous. 2. My stalker has been blogging.

It really is fine work. The blogs make fun of white people, but they aren't kidding. It's insightful, brilliantly written, cutting, sarcastic . . . everything you'd ever want in a blog, right? If you're a white person, or if you've ever met one, you should check it out. Difficult breakups, expensive sandwiches, the Toyota Prius . . . it's a veritable emporium of mock whiteness.

Today's change: less laziness.

New Site of the Week - Cubscast

This is a good site, a great podcast, and a bright shining ray of hope for all who irrationally believe in the search for the mythical Cubs World Championship.

New Site of the Week - Anecdotage

When you need a story, an intro, an illustration, a joke, an ice breaker . . . an anecdote, http://www.anecdotage.com/ is the place to go. Organized by topic, by person, user favorites, or generated randomly, their catalog includes everything from humorous quips to poignant quotes. If you're giving a speech or . . . I don't know, just trying to impress someone with your funny stories, you have to check out this site. Here's one I like:

Got with the Program? Following a performance of Peter Pan one evening, a small boy who had been given a seat in the author's box was asked which bit he had liked the most. "What I think I liked best," the child replied, "was tearing up the program and dropping the bits on people's
heads!" [This was one of Barrie's favorite stories.]

New Site of the Week

Here's a site I found during my daily random search for trivia questions. It's called wronganswers.com. The site is "dedicated to the proof of the proper role of WWW in research," and it does a fair job of fulfilling said mission.

It isn't the most professional site in cyberspace, but the concept is clever. Users provide made-up facts, which eliminates the need for verification of any kind. I suppose if the answers were dependably wrong, such consistency would undermine the site's integrity as an unreliable source. Information proven untrue can at least be helpful. Uncertain veracity is far more dangerous, and I think that's the whole point.

Anyway, my favorite wrong answer so far is under the Law & Politics section. One user defined Habeas Corpus as Latin for "She got a body on her!" They're not all that funny, but I laughed out loud on that one.

P.S. The site also has a string of relatively funny fake banner ads. I'm sure they're done by some other third party, but one new site at a time.