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The live New Year’s Eve webcam feed overlooking the skyline of Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík was a great success, pulling in over 200,000 viewers worldwide.

The webcam, set up by Icelandic telecommunications company Míla, each year, thousands of tourists visit Iceland to see in the New Year and witness the spectacular firework display. Visitors describe the event as something everybody should experience at least once.   Thanks to Míla, viewers were able to experience the exploding rockets and dancing lights as it happened from the comfort of their own homes.

In addition to the New Year’s Eve 2011 webcam feed, Mila also maintains many other webcams situated around Iceland, all of which can be viewed live 24/7.

Webcams are located at the Blue Lagoon, Gullfoss, Jökulsárlón, Geysir, Katla, Hekla, Eyjafjallajökull, Akureyri, and Austurvöllur in downtown Reykjavík: Click HERE

There are some amazing webcams around the world. Can’t make it to the destination you want? Curious to see what’s happening in your favorite destinations?  Go to WebcamGo

The year of the Dragon starts today as the Chinese starts to celebrate the Chinese New Year 4710 begins on January 23, 2012.

For the Chinese, the dragon is the luckiest and most auspicious of all the animal signs. Chinese parents want their kids to get married in the Year of the Dragon. Chinese couples rush to make “dragon babies” because they’re supposed to be lucky. You can just imagine the number of Chinese babies that will be born this year….  Chinese New Year 2012 Webcam

Praying can be done on any day, but most people go to church to pray on Sunday because Sunday is the holy day of rest.

Now you can pay on Sunday and everyday, watch the church in real time live at anytime, Webcams By Diocese

Keep Up With The Greasy Pole Reconstruction on The Discover Gloucester Outer Harbor Webcam.

A place to see, feel and taste history, Gloucester’s working waterfront and ineffable beauty have drawn fishermen, families, artists and visitors for over four hundred years. Click HERE for a list of dozens of Gloucester area webcams.

A Pacific storm blanketed Seattle in more than 4 inches of snow on January 18, forcing school closures and airline flight cancellations and snarling traffic in a city more accustomed to rain.

Snow blankets cars and homes in Tacoma, Wash., Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. A widespread snowstorm walloped western Washington on Wednesday with the heaviest blow missing Seattle and hitting the Olympia area, causing accidents, closing schools and canceling flights at Sea-Tac Airport: Live Webcams from Seattle

Observed on one laptop, if you do not want to be observed” (or you wanted your laptop to be controlled from elsewhere). Which is why you can put a (French) stamp (“easy to remove”) on the camera.

This is an interesting example of these little signs of how users try to reclaim a form of control on digital technology. Even if the laptop has a LED that indicates whether the webcam is working on not, this user prefers to have a better control on this device. If you try it you can check your webcam at Webcam Test

The Elwha Dam webcam was back up and running Friday after the pole it was attached to fell over.

The utility pole, which was rotten, fell Thursday when workers removing other poles nearby removed a wire attached to it, said Brian Krohmer, Barnard Construction project manager.

A new pole was put in place, and the webcam was reattached at about noon Friday, he said. Barnard Construction of Bozeman, Mont., is removing the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams on the Elwha River as part of a $325 million restoration project. Webcams documenting dam removal can be viewed HERE