Viewing the Internet at Work

At my job I am online all day wherever I am sitting. We all are. Last year I learned about a Web site that streams live video from a game preserve in South Africa. The camera is on 24 hours a day and pans 360 degrees looking for animals, even at night with night vision. We call it the "Watering Hole" but it is really Africam. We have seen zebras, elephants, monkeys, all sorts of antelopes, giraffes, and even lions. If someone sees something awesome, emails are sent or calls are made from desk to desk. One day someone in the "the back" called the Reference Desk to say, "Elephant at the watering hole." Our on-call librarian, scrambling thinking it was some sort of emergency code she didn't know, looked surprised as the others at the desk simply maximized their Africam windows to gawk at the elephant half a world away. The next best moment occured as a group of librarians stared closely at one computer monitor behind the Reference Desk. One of the librarians, a female no less, finally proclaimed, "look at the rack on that one!" The view, of course, was a herd of gazelles. Someone almost always has the site up or minimized. You never know what you will see. It's basically nerd porn. The Web site, is out of Canada and is pretty nifty. They have 4 different nature cams. We also have been keeping an eye on the Grizzly cam on Grouse Mountain and today I found the Eaglecam up and running. The other cool thing about this Web site is that there is a music feature that plays indie artists from around the world. I found my favorite new artist here. He is a Finnish DJ named Slow. His Web site is really cool with awesome features and his album Pronto has become my favorite album.