MetaFilter posts tagged with Webcam

Morning's Child

From Bklyn — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:27:53 -0800

Somewhere, the sun is just coming up. A westward flowing chain of webcams broadcasting that moment when the sun first comes up.

19-Year-Old Lifecaster Commits Suicide on Justin.TV.

chunking express — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:50:45 -0800

19-Year-Old Commits Suicide on Justin.TV. [previously.]

LHC webcam

brownpau — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:44:35 -0800

LHC Webcams. There's been a lot of LHC news lately but a less-publicized series of Compact Muon Solenoid proton collision tests is scheduled for today, and CERN has been kind enough to set up a live streaming webcam to watch the CMS in action. (There's also a view of the parking lot but I think that's more so underground-bunkered LHC staff can see the weather.) It's fairly dull viewing but if you're interested in the science of it all, it's great nerdy fun. Maybe you'll even see a black hole or two. ;)

The record shows I took the blows -- And did it MYYYYYYY WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!

Hal Mumkin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:16:39 -0800

Red Karaoke is a free social network for music lovers, offering more than 14,000 songs for karaoke enthusiasts, and tools that enable users to record their own vid eo and au dio files.

Yeah...but where are all the chicks?

allkindsoftime — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:35:23 -0800

These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques and update several times a day. Their owners may or may not have intended for them to be public, but they obviously are. Via Opentopia. That's just the most popular cams in the US, btw. There's plenty more to browse through. Looked pretty SFW to me, but I guess there's potential.

Live Japan Rail Cam

brownpau — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:28:17 -0800

Railway TV. Live video from the front of a train in Japan. More info (translated).

Stickam is for Porn!

brownpau — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:18:35 -0800

onoes! teenz on teh pr0n webs! It's been a year since I posted about Stickam, and in that time, one would be naïve to think that a community of unmoderated videos broadcast live from the private and semi-anonymous bedrooms of the world would not result in epic lulz (nsfw). To no one's surprise, disgruntled Stickam ex-VP Alex Becker says Stickam shares office space, staff, and equipment with live pornographic video providers -- this via NYT tech writer Brad Stone. Cue the "think of the CHILDRUNZ!" moral panic. But popular websites being related to or backed up by prurient interest are nothing new: Wikipeda predecessor Bomis was once accused of having "softore porn" in its "Babes" section, and of course everyone knows porn drives technology. What do you think the internet is for? But if you use Stickam and this bothers you, the burgeoning field of live embeddable Flash-based webcam video streaming is rife with alternatives: uStream.tv, Justin.tv, BlogTV, Mogulus, and Operator11, just to name some -- but there'll be naked girls on those too. I guarantee it.

All nude all week. Oh, and giving birth live online.

nanojath — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:15:19 -0800

Ana Voog is spending the week nude online (NSFW, duh). Former leader of the long-standing Minneapolis Pop-Rock band The Blue Up? Rachel Olson reinvented herself as Ana Voog and became one of the first to put herself under near constant home surveillance online with her Anacam (wacky flash, NSFW). This August will mark her tenth anniversary online, making hers (by her own reckoning) the longest running home cam on the internet. To celebrate she's spending the week naked. Did I mention she's 35 weeks pregnant and planning to give birth online?

A webcam - you know, for kids!

ObscureReferenceMan — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:21:48 -0800

A cute little webcam that isn't obviously one. It even has this thing that tells time. (via)

If I was Ryan, I would be pissed.

Addiction — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:39:10 -0800

Don't Tell Ryan!

Happy Birthday Babychicks!

thirteenkiller — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:20:07 -0800

Two peregrine falcon chicks hatched today (almost) live on downtown Indianapolis' FalconCam. Yay! They're very cute, but the parent sits on them a lot.

Behold the power of cheddar vision

blahblahblah — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:40:54 -0800

Watch cheese age. Cheddarvision.tv is apparently an internet phenomenon. It is the latest in a long line of spectacularly boring webcam sites, and is being hailed as the next Cambridge University coffee pot. Can't stand to wait in this Web 2.0 world? Become the cheddar's friend on myspace or watch the cheddar in timelapse [YouTube]. Be warned if you watch the video: "Highlights have included someone putting a sticker on the piece of cheese, and the sticker almost falling off," so brace yourself. What's your most boring of the web?

Webdeath 2.0

essexjan — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:28:11 -0800

Whether accidentally showboating, or by putting like-minded people in touch, the web is no stranger to online death. But now someone's taken it one tragic step further. The internet being what it is, I have no doubt this will end up on rotten.com or similar.

Yo La Tengo Request-a-Thon!

melorama — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:35:36 -0800

Yo La Tengo Request-a-Thon! Yo La Tengo is once again playing your requests right now (until 11 PM EST), in exchange for your pledges, live on WFMU (currently playing: Sonic Reducer, by the Dead Boys!) As an added treat, the band has reunited with Dave Schramm for this performance! Live webcam stream links here, and here. Ogg, 128k MP3, AAC and RealAudio audio-only streams are also available .

See before you drive

Steven C. Den Beste — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:45:52 -0800

Tripcheck : Is an online service of the Oregon Department of Transportation. Zoom in on the map and click on a camera icon, and you can see a current image taken by a camera at that location.

LiveCam of African watering hole

Doohickie — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:11:35 -0800

What's your favorite watering hole? Link to a real watering hole. In Africa. Live. With video and sound. And real animals. Best viewing times are dusk and dawn, Africa time (It's +8 hours from CST). Learn more about the feed here; click on "Nkorho Stream" in the upper left corner. Second link mentioned previously in a MeFi comment here. First link via; second link via.

Smile, you're on BorderCam.

itchylick — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:17:26 -0800

Who needs a fence when you have webcams? The state of Texas now has a virtual border watch online and is asking for your help spotting illegals crossing the border. It looks like Arizona has a similar program as well with pimped out ATV's. Let the hunt begin. Warning: The Texas site seems to require IE, an ActiveX plugin and registration.

Cam Whoring 2.0

brownpau — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:46:18 -0800

Stickam One might be tempted to dismiss it at first glance as just a video-enabled Myspace clone for emo teens with webcams; but looking past that you'll find a fairly robust and platform-independent Flash-based webcam broadcast and videoconferencing app. There's a profile page with an embedabble Flash viewer, a full screen personal conference popup with privacy options, group video chat rooms, and hosted galleries for photo, video and audio content. Is this the advent of Cam Whoring 2.0? (Oh, and see if you can catch the Pissed-Off Caveman online. It's a webcam pointed at a decked-out Robot Chimpanzee Head.)

what's going on in the rest of the world

Flashman — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:25:13 -0800

Grizzly Bears frolicking at McNeill Falls, Alaska...live. It requires Real Player, sorry, but it's really quite something - the sight and sound of a Grizzly feeding frenzy that happens each summer here.

Zip Zap Rap!

Sticherbeast — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:24:56 -0800

Pay to shock a man, or to prevent him from being shocked. MeFi's own bleucube wears an electric dog collar for a study in...well...shocking a man, or preventing him from being shocked. Shall good or evil prevail - charity or malice? It's all on the line. And by "on the line," I mean "available for $1-4 a pop." 10% of the proceeds go to charity. The other 90% go to being awesome. Via Projects.

Eternal Sunset

freebird — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:35:00 -0800

"Eternal Sunset continuously tunes into different webcams, chasing the sunset around the globe [...] complementing the increased efficiency and productivity associated with the internet." [via WMMNA]

Ant cam

thirteenkiller — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:58:40 -0800

Ants are so cool. Click previous sentence for more information.

1) Buy webcam. 2) Put something you found around the house in your hair. 3) ????????? 4) Profit!

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:09:40 -0800

One of the great virtues of the internet is the manifold ways in which it has revolutionised the arts. The postmodern works of contemporary artists Pomme & Kelly (Google Video), when viewed together in context, form a striking example of a well-placed critique of popular culture, and modern living at large. The zeitgeisty meta-irony of their seemingly content-free interpretations of popular songs are only enhanced by the fact that, in a clever keeping with style, they blog about it as well.

top 25 for 2005

crunchland — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:44:12 -0800

The 25 Most Interesting Webcams of 2005.

Pedophiles Enrich and Molest A Boy (Thanks to his Webcam)

spira — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:51:23 -0800

Through his Webcam, A Boy Joins A Sordid Online World Justin Berry got a webcam when he was 13. Within an hour of his setting it up, a pedophile found him. More followed. They paid him, and he performed. He earned hundreds of thousands of dollars and lots of gifts, including webcams with better resolution which his new "friends" ordered him from his (presumably now abandoned) Amazon wish list and an apartment from which he could perform and not be bothered by Mom. He soon was persuaded by his "fans" to make lucrative in-person appearances so they could molest him, and he also started his own personal subscription service. More inside...