The coolest thing since google is probably google itself!
Ever wanted to see what life looks like in a completely different part of the world?
Live?
Now you can!
Update: For best viewing experience, open the links from the page above in VLC!
For more tidbits, look here.
To me this is one of the coolest things to happen on the net for a long time. In theory it is not really new, since the technology has been around for ages, but it was only recently that some clever bastards realised it, and even more recently that another clever dude built a website that actually made the discovery seriously useful.
The ability to simply access webcams, both public and private, located all over the world can give kick ass insight into different countries and cultures, and I love that stuff.
I just hope it will stay around for at least a while, these kind of cool things tend to vanish a bit too soon.