Web thermometer: the eagle with the prosthetic beak, the boy named Lego, and Ballmer on the death of newspapers

Welcome to another round of the Friday afternoon web thermometer, taking the net's news temperature.




Beauty shows off her prosthesis. Photograph: AP/ Young Kwak1. The eagle with the prosthetic beak
A beakless bald eagle named Beauty - perhaps insensitively, in the circumstances - has been given an artificial beak by conservationists, after her own was shot off by a poacher. Speaking of poaching, see also the emu that nearly became an omelette.