It's not book related but nothing says Freedom of Expression like the newest buzz site of the Internet, ChatRoulette. The site is exactly what it says – you hit the site and you see a chat window for yourself and one for a random person somewhere in the world. As soon as you get bored (which is usually fairly quickly – basically as soon as you see the other person's face…or they see yours), you click a button and see someone else. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
(I did it just now and got hung up on about five times in a row, had a brief chat with two guys who were watching the Canada-Russia game and saw one set of fingers making hand puppets. Contrary to my previous experience with web cams way back in the late 1990's – and frankly what I was expecting here – every second person wasn't trying to show me their penis which was nice. Perhaps if I was female?)
So it's not all people freely exposing expressing themselves as you might expect – there's humour, love and even puppets! Oh, and you might see the occasional vagina as well.
(via MetaFilter)
[2010-03-05: The Daily Show adds their hilarious take on ChatRoulette.]
[2010-03-15 – Piano Improv ChatRoulette is pretty funny.]
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