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Jewish World Review
Just you watch!
By
Randy A. Salas
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(MCT) Webcams have changed significantly since a remotely observed coffee pot started percolating in the Trojan Room of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in the early '90s. But even though that first use of the technology is defunct (see www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html), the spirit of the coffee cam lives on in other webcams that offer unspectacular views of little or no real-time activity.www.cheddarvision.tv Ah, here's a golden moldy: Cheddarvision, a new webcam that inspired today's theme. Presented by England's West County Farmhouse Cheesemakers, it shows a wheel of cheddar cheese aging oh-so-slowly over the course of a year. The only thing moving quickly here is the timer, which, in a nice touch of British humor, measures to the millisecond.www.mirimgs.com/webcam/paint.htmlIf you think watching cheese age is akin to watching paint dry, then you obviously have never actually done the latter. You can with the Official Watching Paint Dry Webcam. It looks a lot like a photo. If you prefer the other end of the process, look no further than the Peeling Paint WebCam (www.sudftw.com/paintcam.htm).www.coolercam.comUsing Coolercam, you can watch the activity around the water cooler in the back room of a small office. "Unfortunately, since we're mostly lethargic computer professional-types, you'll probably have to wait a while before anything happens," the site says. No kidding.www.lochness.co.uk/livecamLook (and look and look) for the legendary Loch Ness Monster with this webcam positioned over Scotland's famous lake. Hard to see at night? No problem. Look for UFOs.www.cellsalive.com/cam0.htmCells Alive! lets you see how cancer cells and bacteria change over time. While the Cancer Cell Cam and Bacteria Cam aren't truly live, their real-time presentations are certainly worth checking out, especially because you can speed up the process to see a time-lapse view of changes. www.awi-bremerhaven.de/NM_WebCam ºLife can be a bit boring at a snowbound Antarctic research outpost. The outdoor webcam for the polar and marine research center of Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute drowsily proves the point.www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/gardensThe light is always on and the temperature remains a steady 38 degrees in the Japanese refrigerator monitored by Fridge Cam. Judging from the gallery of past photos, taken every 10 minutes, that's about all that happens.www.flexmussels.com/musselcam.htmlFlex Mussels' Live Musselcam notes that "mussels grow very, very slowly." Even if the tongue-in-cheek presentation is really an animated scene with a superimposed clock, it honors the spirit of the original coffee cam.www.earthcam.com/usa/hawaii/bigisland/coffeeThe coffee cam is no longer with us, but you can honor its memory by watching coffee beans grow with the Coffee Plantation Cam in Kona, Hawaii. Here's to you, coffee cam.
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