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Is it because the UK is heavily wired with webcams everywhere you go in public? I asked myself this question after reading a message board online where a few UK webmasters chimed in on their thoughts as to how the British intelligence found the suspects so fast… Here’s a few excerpts from those discussions online:

“They have video cameras everywhere.” - JJ Gold

“Yeah…I think that Americans would have much more problem with having government cameras taping them everywhere they go…” - sperbonzo

“Yeah, the power of CCTV (close circuit television) - they have them everywhere in the UK.
Helps with vandalism and crime and whatnot. ” - WEGRuth

“Totally true. I’ve lived and traveled in the UK. There are Cameras all OVER the place… People have even been convicted of crimes in their own homes because outside cameras happened to see them through the windows.

I”m sure that George Orwell would have started putting up “Oceana” signs all over the UK if he was still alive… ” - sperbonzo

“If you are in central London you are on a camera somewhere. It has been used many times to solve murder cases, etc. I get so used to it here that when I went home and didn’t see cameras that often it felt odd.” - sarah_webinc

Anyways I thought it was nice to be able to find someone so fast, BUT scary as hell to think that most of a country is being watched on camera, that’s just totally 1984 scary! Can you imagine when the US government sells it to us that we MUST have cameras in public 24/7 on every street corner to KEEP US SAFE!? I seriously believe it will happen within the next 5-15 years at the rate we’re going lately in being willing to give up freedoms for security.

Here’s a link to some of the, apparently 1000s, of webcams in the UK:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/webcams/

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Found a news article that was pretty cool on a Zoo using webcams to show off their inhabitants & exhibits…

Here’s a screen cap of their live panda cam. (The live webcam has sound to it as well.)

Here’s the link to the zoo with the live webcams. Once you are there, click on the link up at the top left that says Animals, etc…

enjoy!

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Well it looks like for the most part, the South East dodged a big bullet. Hurricane Dennis, although packing a load of rain and wind only came in at a Category 3 hurricane, even though it was projected to come in at a Cat 4.

Don’t get me wrong, that’s still a brutal storm and did a ton of damage I’m sure, but clearly not in the Ivan or Andrew range for destruction… Well, that’s easy to say unless it’s your house or car that got destroyed.

I feel ok in commenting on that as I personally lost a car and a other personal items as a result of Hurricane Andrew. I was stationed at Homestead AFB at the time and was newly married and living downtown. The wife and I were home on leave at the time so we couldn’t get any of our things out or evacuate. We were supposed to fly back the day everyone was evacuating. I must say it was a memorable first few months of marriage.

Ok, so getting back on topic here. I was trying to find a decent cam of Hurricane Dennis the other day, but the only one I saw was shaky and covered with rain and you really couldn’t see anything so I opted to post a link to the awesome satellite photos of Hurricane Dennis provided by the awesome crew over at NASA.

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/ < this is where I found a few really nice detailed shots of Dennis when he was making land.

Here's a screen cap of one of their photos of Hurricane Dennis:

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Ok, sorry I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve been super busy and I guess just plain too lazy to post here. Needed that week off. Anyways, looks like Hurricane Dennis is messing up the fun in the sun down in Florida. Today’s live webcam capture is coming from South Beach Florida.

Surfline is the source of this webcam again, one of these days I’ll signup for their premium service and check out their streaming webcams.

Anyways, checkout the beach cam page here for the link to this particular cam.

Enjoy and have a great rest of the day!

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Today’s post is from beautiful Hermosa Beach, California. Although from this screen capture of it, you’re getting a real good idea of what the term “June Gloom” means to inhabitants of the coast along California in parts of the summer.

To get the link to the live streaming webcam, just go to our beach cams page, and the links to both the streaming webcam and the large static image refresh cam are there.

That’s all for now…
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