Archive for August, 2011

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Transparent Government via Webcams in India

Oommen Chandy, the chief minister of Kerala. Little Brother is watching you, that is the premise for the webcam that a top government official here has installed in his office, as an anticorruption experiment. Goings-on in his chamber are viewable to the public, 24/7. In an India beset by kickback scandals at the highest reaches [...]

Live webcams: Hurricane Irene belts the East Coast

Hurricane Irene is battering New York with ferocious winds and driving rain, shutting down the US financial capital. Mass transit has been halted and massive power blackouts have been reported as the hurricane churns slowly northward along the eastern seaboard. New York City’s normally bustling streets area eerily quiet after authorities ordered tens of thousands [...]

Hurricane Irene approaches

The National Weather Service says heightened waves and swells have starting hitting North Carolina’s coast as Hurricane Irene approaches. Meteorologist Hal Austin says North Carolina’s Outer Banks have started seeing six to nine-foot waves early Friday. For hundreds of miles, as many as 65 million people along the densely populated East Coast are warily waiting [...]

Wayward penguin followed by thousands on webcam

Happy Feet has become a creature of the Internet age. The wayward emperor penguin, who was discovered on a New Zealand beach six weeks ago and will soon be returned to the wild, already boasts an online following of more than 120,000. That’s how many unique visitors have logged onto a webcam set up to [...]

Hurricane Irene To Stay or To Go?

Hurricane Irene could hit anywhere from North Carolina to New York this weekend, leaving officials in the path of uncertainty to make a delicate decision. Should they tell tourists to leave during one of the last weeks of the multibillion-dollar summer season? In the Bahamas, tourists cut their vacations short and caught the last flights [...]

New Lake Champlain Bridge arch could be placed Thursday

The new Lake Champlain Bridge’s arch will be floated up the lake and lifted into place Thursday, New York state officials announced Tuesday. Officials said the process of moving the arch will begin at sunrise Thursday. The arch will be floated from its construction site at Velez Marine in Port Henry to the bridge over [...]

Earthquake strikes Eastern US

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Mineral, Virginia, 87 miles outside of Washington D.C., today. Shaking could be felt from Toronto to New York and all the way to North Carolina at close to 2 p.m. EST this afternoon. The quake lasted 45 seconds, and is one of the largest ever to hit the East Coast. The Pentagon, [...]