The Black Hole of the Internet

There are certainly a few places online where you can find yourself getting lost for hours on end, but few make as good a use of new technology as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online's new travelling snow cam. For those who haven't looked at the link, the Sentinel has a journalist driving around with a mounted camera and is sending a live feed of the road conditions around the Milwaukee area (it was in Waukesha when I saw it) Apparently this nifty device has been dubbed the "weather wagon", and quite frankly it's very amusing. I'm really impressed, however, at the creative use of technology and the equipment that they're using. The raw processing and transferring power they must have to send a live feed from a moving vehicle is pretty cool. It's also a very helpful view of the area around you. Just imagine if you could watch the road conditions an hour before you left for or from work so that you know what you'll be getting into before you even leave (assuming you want to know what roads other than the one in front of your residence look like). Another idea (probably not the best) would be for a live storm-chasing event which is fed directly from the chasers. Or, what if Deadliest Catch installed a 24/7 webfeed from the fishing boats? There are a lot of cool uses other than the puppy cam which was so recently popular (it saw 773 years of watching!!)