Owlcam!

Apparently a new family of Great Horned owls has nested in trees at the Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada. They did as any proper group with the right resources and a dedicated connection to the Internets would do: they set up a webcam.

No cute little baby owls yet, but Mom has been fully in view all day so far (at least the times I've checked).

(via the otherwise guilty-pleasure UK pop culture mailing list, Popbitch)

Favorite April Fools prank 2008

I emerge from my grad school cave to attempt to resume blogging. This was my favorite of the stuff that went around yesterday: