One of the things I love are Web cams that take you to a place or an event. This week, people could watch the Dalai Lama’s visit at Mayo Clinic. Sometimes I’ll check out a Web cam that looks out on the Yellowstone River in my hometown in Montana. So this week we’ll lead with one of my favorites, the falcon cam. Read on.
www.mnpower.com/falconcam/index.htm
Hooray! It’s spring. Finally I can watch the falcon cam with a falcon in it. Check out Minnesota Power’s peregrine falcon nesting platform on the stack at its Boswell Energy Center. It’s nesting now. Check back periodically as things progress. Mayo Clinic has offered this at times with its nesting boxes, but I haven’t found one yet this year. Too bad.
www.complett.nl/main3.htm
Garbage architecture is what they call it. Jan Korbes collects a range of examples of items created from cast off materials. Some of it’s a bit odd, but there are a lot of everyday items created from stuff someone else had chucked.
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http://curiousexpeditions.org
Curious expeditions find some pretty cool old stories about expeditions and oddities in the world. The most recent one was a guy who’d been digging a tunnel and rode a geyser explosion up in the air.
www.webook.com
Here’s your chance to be an author. It’s an interesting concept. WEbook is an online book publishing company. Site managers say they’re doing for the publishing industry what "American Idol" did for music. We shall see. The concept is called User-Generated Books, which involves an array of people in writing it. The site just published its first book.
www.quazen.com
Quazen is a great blog that collects posts from a variety of bloggers. Many are good tips: five tips to save money at the dollar store; eight questions about the human body that kids always ask; and 10 ways to make money as a college student. Check it out.
www.bornrich.org
You’re looking for things to spend your Powerball winnings on, right? Here’s the blog that comes up with the extravagant items to fill that newfound wealthy need. The site’s managers have Elvis Presley’s 24-carat gold piano as well as the Berwyn Spindle, the skewered car sculpture in Illinois.
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www.savethespindle.com
Speaking of the Berwyn Spindle, here’s where you can check in and save the spindle. Or buy a T-shirt or check out the state Senate resolution to save the car kabob.
Do you have a favorite blog, Web site or technology item? How about some great local links? Send them to Local News Editor Mike Dougherty, mdougherty@postbulletin.com.
