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tysolna ([personal profile] tysolna) wrote2006-07-08 12:09 am
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I could be sitting here all day, you know

It's now gone midnight, I've been listening to BBC Radio (Folk Club and Celtic Heartbeat) for the past hours while zipping around the 'net, talking to people, uploading a very few pictures to my flickr, hunting for new images to make into user icons, watching my favourite webcam, the Naked Mole Rat Cam, and now I can see the pandas sleep in the National Zoo, Washington, DC. I can actually see a panda on the other side of the world breathe.

Webcams have always fascinated me. To be able to see a view from the other side of the world, and be it an octopus, a street full of people, or the sky over Fort Worth, Texas, is more than cool. It makes the world both smaller and bigger at the same time.
And that's exactly what this faster connection has done. It's made the world and the WWW smaller, easier to get to, and bigger, with a lot more highways and byways and things to explore.

The sun's going down over the Palace Hotel in Manchester. I think I'd better go to bed now.
Who'd have known I could get all philosophical about a piece of technology.

[identity profile] fangedsekhmet.livejournal.com 2006-07-07 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
My favourite is Hawaii beach cam. Though not so much in winter when it's freezing here and 85F there. Nice muzak though!

[identity profile] athenais.livejournal.com 2006-07-08 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
We like the National Geographic waterhole can in Botswana, but it's closed until August. I have sat many an hour watching wildebeest, warthogs and Cape buffalo come have a drink at the pond, complete with sound.

DSL rocks most fully.

[identity profile] dadi.livejournal.com 2006-07-08 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
..and if you are like me, it'll never get old :)
and you'll need a webcam too, now, you'll see!!

[identity profile] dadi.livejournal.com 2006-07-08 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
just wait :) the pleasure of chatting seeing the other person is ...*something different*!!

[identity profile] dadi.livejournal.com 2006-07-08 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
for some reason, your nickname didn't stay on my yahoo list.. could you send me another im please?