List of webcams :: News feeds for dynamic background

formandcontent: worldview desktop v0.9
Can you think of any other primary sources?

basically i scoured the web for every conceivable "live" or "real-time" information graphic i could find, and was happily amazed at the types of data that was out there. stock market data, meteorological data, live television feeds, astronomical feeds, and the items that took up most of my search...live webcams.

Now look at what Jon Udell says about Scale-free networks and mirror worlds

So, what is a Mirror World? A vast, detailed representation of a company or a city, or of parts of these structures, or even of the larger economic and political structures to which they belong. What's it good for? To monitor and debug the things that are represented:

Combine this idea with applications like mytop and you realize that combining multiple streams together in one view is a powerful concept. You could add realtime tails of your server logs as well.