Online webcams. This is a list of some of my favorites so far. I've tried to post this twice before, each time with fairly well-written intros, and both times the browser crashed. Theoretically, it was due to the different routines the cams were asking my browser to perform, but I think it was actually karma.

Anyway, in an effort to actually get this post posted, I'm working in two browser programs and skipping the intro. It works better without me leading in, anyway.

They'll be designated controllable (which are almost always streaming), live (streaming) and still (which refresh periodically, in anywhere from five to thirty seconds, usually.) Have fun.

Nola.com has a collection of live and still cams. There's another new orleans still cam here, at Tropical Isle. (Jesus, it's dawn there as I write this. yeesh.)

There's another collection of still cams at London Cam, looks like they update every five seconds or so.

Seattle's got a cam on the Space Needle. It says live, but I didn't see it update while I was watching. Maybe every minute or so? The interface is cool, though, and check out the time lapse feature, too.

Alcatraz has a controllable cam, come to think of it. Not usually anyone fighting for control of it, either. Go nuts.

I'm not sure exactly where this is (somewhere in japan), and I'm not sure exactly what it is. Horror shop? Tourist attraction? There's four or five streaming cams in there, though. Click around. Don't click the bugs, though. http://www.medamaoyaji.jp/index.html

There's another still cam on an Australian beach, at the Mooloolaba Surf Club. I like this one because I'll probably never ever get to visit australia. Damnit.

I like weasels.
I also like bengal kittens. I'm not sure when they come out, though.
I like lizards, too, but mostly this cam is usually about watching paranoid grasshoppers.

Here's a couple of live controllable cams:
http://www.us-tec.com/live/index.html (Osaka, Japan)
http://www.us-tec.com/live/index.html (Hotel Meridien, Tokyo, Japan)

I like the controllable cams the best, really. Even if you're not moving them yourself, you can sit there and watch what other people do with the cam, without any other connection between you. It's maybe more entertaining that way.

I left out the antarctica cams, because I didn't want to do that subject to death. Scroll back if you're jonesing for ice and wind. :)