Innormaloperation, your default "channel" -- Chumby's terminology for a particular set of selected widgets -- cycles on an endless loop, and if you'd like to add widgets or channels, you log into Chumby's site to do so (though you can delete widgets and freeze the display right from the device itself if you need to).
None of those collisions resulted in injuries, and a Coast Guard spokesman said some such collisions were normalin the operation of a working ferry, especially those operating many times a day and in poor weather.