My work takes me on many unique research journeys on the Web, sometimes to look up an aspect of information architecture, or delve into a new idea related to online interaction or online content. Sometimes I just need to look up an acronym, especially if I know what it stands for, but I don't really know what it's all about. When I found myself recently checking out SOA, I decided I had gone too far into Geekville and backed away slowly. Service-Oriented Architecture (with or without the hyphen, take your pick), is a systems architecture term, not related to the info architecture that I do, although there are some connections. Wikipedia's definition contained a selection of eight other definitions, too much for my lifetime. There's a whole other world out there beyond what I do but I've got plenty of my own knitting to stick to. Today's fascinating journey -- it was research, really! -- took me to the ospreys at Calgary Zoo. (Give it time to load, it's worth it, one of the best webcams I've seen in a long time.)