I've added Google Apps to my domain. I had already started handing pieces of my domain to Google when I started letting them host my blog. At the same time, I'm starting to take pieces back. More on that later... I started playing with the Open Social API today. Really simple thing -- I realized that I wanted to put some basic, static HTML in a box on both my Facebook page and to my iGoogle page....
It is, of course, the Fourth day of July. After several years of tension, and many attempts by various colony-side groups to get the British parliament to listen to basic grievances, conflict arose. The Colonists and the British Army started shooting on 19 April 1775 at Lexington - just outside of Boston. On 11 June 1776, more than a year after the war had begun, the delegates to the Continental Congress appointed a committee of five, and they got started on the serious work of making a formal declaration of Independence....
So, here is the video that I took of the St Paul Smoke Stack falling... Wait for it to load - Action starts during minute 5, so forward to there (half-way point). I haven't had a chance to edit it down.
Well -- it was a crazy minute, but the Smoke Stack at the Mississippi River at the St. Paul High Bridge came falling down. It was described in the article as an implosion, but the way the video is shown, it seems very likely that they meant for it to tumble like a felled tree, as it did. The smoke stack held a falcon box for several years, but that box was removed in January before the falcons returned from their winter journey....