Webcams are one of the web s more perverse pleasures.
The attraction of seeing a grainy image of somebody s cat updated every 60 seconds is so stupid that it s actually kind of cool. Maybe it s just the voyeuristic aspect that people find so appealing, from your desktop you can sneak a peak into a place that would otherwise be inaccessible, but for what ever reason they re insanely popular. Do a quick search on Yahoo and you ll find zillions of cams taking live pictures of everything you can imagine, pets, famous landmarks, people, street corners and the list goes on. If you can think of it, somebody has probably already slapped up a webcam in front of it. New webcams continue to pop up like weeds across the Internet because the technology behind it has gotten to the point where any half-wit with a little free time on his hands can get one going in a matter of about an hour.