ChatRoulette connects you via webcam to complete strangers:

Early ChatRoulette users traded anecdotes on comment boards with the eerie intensity of shipwreck survivors, both excited and freaked out by what they’d seen. There was a man who wore a deer head and opened every conversation with “What up DOE!?” A guy from Sweden was reportedly speed-drawing strangers’ portraits. Someone with a guitar was improvising songs for anyone who’d give him a topic. One man popped up on people’s screens in the act of fornicating with a head of lettuce. Others dressed like ninjas, tried to persuade women to expose themselves, and played spontaneous transcontinental games of Connect Four. Occasionally, people even made nonvirtual connections: One punk-music blogger met a group of people from Michigan who ended up driving eleven hours to crash at his house for a concert in New York. And then, of course, fairly often, there was this kind of thing: “I saw some hot chicks then all of a sudden there was a man with a glass in his-

The rest is here at NYMag.  I tried edit: Omegle before, but the addition of audio/video sounds like it makes it much more interesting.

It can also be brutal

The first eighteen people who saw me disconnected immediately.

Hat tip Tyler.

Thats what I’ve concluded after reading through only about a third of his web page.  Everything from baking it to finding the best places to eat it.  Seriously, check him out.

From the great Warren Mosler:

you are addressing a room full of people.

you tell them taxes turn litter into money.

you try to sell your business cards to the group for $5 each.

probably no takers.

you offer your cards to anyone who stays to help clean up the room

no takers.

you then point to the man at the door with the 9mm who’s the tax collector, and no one leaves without 10 of your business cards.

you then repeat the questions.

Beaten

Fizy is a huge database of online music from YouTube and many more sources which makes finding streaming songs simple and easy.  It even uses short URLs perfect for sharing.  Check it out.

I found it while looking for one of my favorite songs about 9/11.  What other songs about this day do our readers know?

Rhino has posted the soundtracks of George Romero’s classic zombie flicks Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead.  RTWT before you get them!

Excerpt:

…these could be your friends or loved ones. People you cared for enormously but now just something else. All traces of whom they once were gone. You couldn’t try to reason with them. The person you knew doesn’t exist anymore all they want to do is tear you apart and eat you alive.

I was hanging out with this guy last night and he just started busting rhymes about Judaism that were totally hilarious.  So i went to his website and found this:

is my new hero.

I’m even growing a ’stache to be just like him.

Fook!