The common loon, state bird of Minnesota and national bird of Canada, had a nice feature on KARE 11 last night. The way they handle their eggs reminds me of the emperor penguins in March of the Penguins. Beautiful creatures. Make sure to watch the video to see the whole feature. It’s a nice one.
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With this lovely globaly-warmed weather that we’ve been having in Minnesota this year (and for that matter increasingly so for the past 5 summers), who wouldn’t want a good old snow day. When it’s consistently 90 degrees and soupy humid outside, what feels better than making your own snowflake?
Popular Front put this together several years […]

So this isn’t exactly brand new news, but it’s the first I’ve seen of it. Nike came out with a line of clothing that have integrated iPod storage and shoes that have a transmitter that sends a signal to your iPod. The combination means that you can integrate training goals (distance, time, calories burned), time […]

Google Labs has come out with a special accessible search engine that searches the web and gives priority ranking to site that are more accessible to those who are blind or visually impaired. Many of these users have screen readers that actually read the content (hidden and visible) of a page out loud. Sites that […]

Not sure yet if this tool is a good thing, or just something to put even more unrealistic deadlines on software developers. But Tick web-based timetracking seems pretty cool to me, and hey, it integrates with Basecamp, so that’s a plus.
I could see as much use for this on internal projects (universities, corporations, etc.) as […]