Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.
Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.
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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20141106012334/http://www.komar.org:80/christmas/videos/
Christmas Lights Videos
Lots of movies below, but here are a couple that are probably the best to start watching
December 9th, 2010 - Internet surfers from around the world control the Christmas Lights - five hours from webcam
1 -
2 -
3
and one hour from webcam
1 -
2
Lotsa footage from the three ChristmasCams below - they were even used as a
Santa Tracker
to get some footage of the Big Red Guy! While they webcams have
PTZ (Pan, Tilt, Zoom) control, I have not allowed Internet surfers (this year!)
to have access to that. But you will sometimes see the picture "jump" as I
move them around. For reference, the three ChristmasCams are:
1. Across the street looking to the South at most of the house
2. Looks to the North down onto the front lawn
3. Is in Santa's Workshop ... my office! ;-)
There was quite a few entertaining video's in 2004 (see below - my
favorite was the
me up in the ABC News Heli)
and here's a selection from Christmas/2005:
ChristmasCam's 1 and 2 and 3 on November 29th from 1700-2220 (15 seconds - 2 MBytes)
ChristmasCam's 1 and 2 and 3 on December 2nd from midnight to 0800 (26 seconds - 4 Mbytes) Rare sunrise footage as 15,000+ DIGG'ers enjoy turning the 26,000 Christmas lights on and off and on and off ...
Interview with a Joel Hunt on December 4th via ChristmasCam 1 (11 seconds, 2 MBytes) He asked "is it real?" so after we walked out (at 1823) and I left, I suggested he stand by the lights and call someone he trusted who was on a computer. We talked later that evening and he said
"I just called my girlfriend and she said 'I can see you on the [Alek's Christmas] webcam'"
ChristmasCam's 1 and 2 and 3 from 1600 on December 12th to 0800 on December 13th (55 seconds, 7 Mbytes) ChristmasCam Craziness as 30,000+ Fark'ers blink the lights ALL night long! My (great) neighbors said it was OK - includes footage of our Christmas Tree on Cam #3.
ChristmasCam's 1 and 2
watch Boulder Fire Department show up on December 16th (18 seconds, 2 MBytes) Fortunately, it was a nearby false alarm - not Christmas Light over-amperage! ;-)
December 21st video of the Hulk'in Santa - picked up at 50% off - still shot (14 seconds, 3 MBytes)
Christmas Eve footage of Santa and his reindeer from ChristmasCam's
1 and
3 (15 seconds, 2 Mbytes)
December 27th video of Dueling Clocks! (15 seconds, 3 Mbytes)
Thanx to tomas316's TIVO, I have the following excerpted video's in
quick-time format which are provided under fair use.
From what I can gather, there was quite a bit more TV coverage, especially
when the hoax broke, including CNN Headline News, Good Morning America,
Today Show, etc.
Email Santa if you
have any coverage to contribute.
one minute (5.9 Mbytes) Tech TV segment that had me rolling - I had no idea
these guys were checking things out. This air'ed on Monday, December 13th,
which ironically was a day after the Slashdotting that they talk about in
this short segment. Too bad I'm a (happily) married guy, as
the perky Chi-Lan sounds like she is making a move for me when she says
"want a piece of this Komarnitsky - come and get it!"
Channel 7 correction from the morning news - now these guys did a MUCH nicer job that the
evening guys the night before - class act guys, heck you even yucked it
up on the air - I bet you were one of the 84% who voted me funny on your
on-line poll!
Plus you correctly said that I "revealed the hoax because it got outa hand"
... how 'bout giving your online guys a holler who (even after correcting my
name in the story 2 hours after you aired), are still showing that the
Wall Street Journal "uncovered the ruse" which is completely incorrect.
Tech TV correction - Chi-Lan has some fun with it (good for her ... and thanx for getting
the name right) as Kevin Pereira grumbles in the background.
Some other misc. movies/videos
While not related to Christmas lights per se, I thought these deserved mentioning.
405 the Movie - America Airlines
DC-10 loses engines, has to make emergency landing on 405 Highway.
LAPD clears all traffic ... except for one guy in a pickup ... and one
grandma in her old beater - great 3 minute, 9 MByte clip.
A special thanx to folks who have helped host the video's
For 2005, Dominic at Vidahost has
graciousely volunteered to help out. Dominic is a director of
Thermal Degree, a UK-based web
design and hosting company setup by two friends in early 2004.
Vidahost, launched just over one year
ago, is their hosting branch which offers shared and reseller hosting.
Dominic also handled some mirroring of
www.asiantsunamivideos.com,
a collection of video footage from the tsunami of December 2004 which attracted thousands of visitors and nearly 1Gbit/sec of traffic.
In 2006, I ante'ed up the big bucks so I'd have a dedicated
server to handle this stuff! ;-)