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Links to slightly interesting webcams Paul Ryan Nerd alert! Nerd alert! As a pathetic nerd, I have no choice but to sometimes bring you content that only a dork like me could love. Today is one of those days. However, you're probably a one of those nerds who are too stubborn to realize it, so keep reading. Technology websites have been buzzing this weekend over the discovery that Google searches can turn up links to security cameras and other webcams connected to the internet. If you search for one of the following three phrases, the results will give you links to thousands of random webcams from around the world: inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode=" inurl:"MultiCameraFrame?Mode=" inurl:"view/index.shtml" You can even control some of the webcams, moving them up and down and side to side. There are security cams, office webcams, and even car museum and Japanese laundromat webcams. But while this may sound exciting, there is a slight problem. Out of the thousands, if not millions, of webcams connected to the internet, 99.9% of them are boring as hell. They blow ass. After nearly three hours of searching through links, I felt more drowsy than if I had just read five pages of a Tom Wolfe novel. Unfortunately, the most common use for webcams is the monitoring of construction sites, college computer labs, and empty offices. This is where the experience gets frustrating. It's like suddenly becoming invisible and being able to watch people's lives, only to find out that nobody ever does anything exciting. I want girls locker room shower cams, damn it! I want girls locker room shower cams NOW! Until I can find those webcams, I've put together some of the most interesting ones I've found so far. Keep checking back until noon today, because I'll add more until then. Many cams that were completely dark last night may be interesting during the day. In that same sense, keep in mind that some of the cams I already listed may be dark this morning.
This cam is intriguing because it seems trains go past roughly every 30 seconds. It also seems to be a popular tourist spot, because there's always a large crowd of people waiting whenever the trains pass. Like many cams, this one doesn't list what city it's from, which adds to the mystery. Japanese trains cam (Best during afternoons/nights in US)
Shoreline cam 1 (Best during afternoons/nights in US)
Zoo cam (Best during afternoons/nights in US)
Dr. Evil cam 1 (Best during daytime in US)
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This is probably my favorite one. The whole point of webcams is you see what "normal" places in other countries look like. TV shows and movies show exotic international locations, but webcams show reality.
Staying with the Japan theme, here's another one from an unknown Japanese city. This one actually shifts between multiple cams in the same area. One of them shows this crazy Christmas setup. Someone should tell those crazy bastards that Christmas was over a few weeks ago.
Here's a busy street in France. I'm not sure what the purpose of the cam is, but it's nice to look at. The streetlights make it seem like some stereotypical French movie setting. You can just see some pretentious man with a beret and a little mustache talking smack about those imposters from Quebec who don't speak the language correctly.
Why does every country except America has plentiful amounts of cobblestone streets? And fountains. And lights strung awkwardly across large intersections. I strung some old Christmas lights awkwardly across my living room, but it just wasn't the same. My living room needs a cobblestone floor. And a fountain in the middle of it would be pretty sweet, too.
This is the one cam where I don't even know what country it's from. All I know is the street is really wide, yet there's no curbs. So you could totally plow over a bunch of people in your car and blame it on the city. If you watch when the time listed on the cam is around 7 am, you'll see lots of kids riding sissy-looking bicycles to school (or I assume that's where they're going). I'd totally plow over them. Oh, and I wanted to ask, does anyone else find the row of identical pointy tree plants on the left side of the cam creepy? Maybe I've been looking at cams too long.
It's the freakin' corn palace! I've been to the corn palace, and let me tell you, it wasn't that exciting in person. So I can only imagine how boring it must be on a webcam. Actually, wait a minute. Who needs to imagine it? I can see how boring it is right now. For some reason, this webcam has recently started asking for a username and password to view it. I'm not sure why. Those South Dakota bastards must be getting cocky.
If you're just looking for a random pretty shoreline photo, here's three cams that do the job. I think they're from Japan, but I'm too lazy to investigate further.
At first glance, this seemed like a typical boring computer lab cam. But if you adjust the cam to the left, there is are two stuffed animals, a rabbit and a turtle. The rabbit seems determined, always staring out the window. The turtle looks like a freakin' dumbass. I dislike the turtle.
Okay, it's probably just a regular video store, but I had to find some way to make this cam seem exciting. But it could be a dirty video store. I watched for a few minutes and didn't see any customers. Therefore, I think it's only right to assume that everyone is in the naughty booths spanking it.
This one's cute. It's animals at a zoo or some similar place. Mostly goats. There are multiple cams for multiple cute "goats eatin' stuff" action. I watched the goats eat earlier today. It was pretty intense. They were all attacking each other and stuff. I am hoping that at some point, the zoo people will aim the cams at monkeys, so I can watch them throw poo.
There are few things more frightening than this cam. It's just a doll rotating endlessly in front of a photo of what appears to be the set from "The Sound of Music". It's very monotonous, yet I keep watching to see if the doll comes to life and starts murdering people. Seriously though, why would anyone do this? And who, besides me, would ever watch it? It's one question that may never be answered.
Hey, I've got an idea. Let's build a house, then put a bunch of creepy rectangular pillars in a circle around it. It will be like Stonehenge, but dumber. Please note that this is another one of those adjustable cams, so Dr. Evil's dreamhouse may not be in view when you first click on it.
This room is either a torture room or . . . well, I don't know what the hell it is. All I know is it looks very strange. It's very new-age, and appears to have a TV and possible video game system hookup in the left corner. The TV also appears to have bars over it. Is this where the inmates at the local prison play Mario Kart? If it is, then I'm jealous, because this room is bigger than my apartment. Also, my apartment doesn't have glass doors and metal stairs leading to them (bottom right corner).
Kilmarnock is a town in the UK. Now you can see how people in the UK are just as boring as people in the United States. Also, you can marvel at their statue, which appears to have two people fornicating doggie-style, but standing up. Another fun thing to do with this cam is count the number of jaywalkers. I counted 15 in two minutes. Can you break that record? If you can, don't e-mail me to tell me about it, because I don't freaking care.
If you've never seen a roundabout intersection before, this one might be interesting. Technically, this isn't a complete roundabout, though. The true ones are a perfect round circle. It makes traffic flow a little faster, doesn't it? I wish we had more of these in America. To hell with stop signs, I tell you! Anyway, at least now when your friends ask you what you did all day, you can tell them you were spying on Poland.
