I first got interested in webcams back in the early days of the intartubes when I came across the original Africam.  It was simple: a 24-hour live view of a watering hole somewhere in Africa, updated every few minutes.  State of the art, circa 1998 or so.  I passed the link to a couple of people, they passed it to a couple more people, and so on until it died of bandwidth overload a couple of days later.  The original Africam is long gone, and the replacements are far inferior.

But time and progress march on.  Instead of searching for these cams or stumbling across them randomly, Opentopia aggregates hundreds of webcam feeds into one easy-to-use site.  Here are a few of my current favorites:

• A bakery in Yokohama, Japan
• Just outside a train station in Dublin, Ireland
• A cafe in Switzerland
• A lighthouse in Vancouver, BC

Note that while all the Opentopia cam pictures are SFW, various idiots think it’s amusing to add rude comments.  So if looking at bad words and/or stupid racist comments would get you into trouble at work, save this for home.