Archive for November 2009

Strange Conversations with Strangers

Today I discovered Omegle, a website that pairs you with a stranger for a 1-on-1 chat. There are no age restrictions, no censors, no profiles, no log-ins. It can be completely anonymous unless you reveal information to one another. Sounds sketchy? Of course it does. But I've long mastered the skill of the internet chatroom: Way back when I was a young preteen chatting with people while playing Yahoo! Games to my times now when I pimp my avatar in IMVU. But Omegle is definitely the most interesting one I've come across. I spent about 3 hours just chatting with people to see what kinds of conversations I would have. At times I played the straight man, while other times I was the strange one. And when I LOLed out loud (LOLOLed), I made sure to save the chat. Here's some snippets of those chats: You're now chatting with a...

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Dr. Horrible Prequel is Not Horrible

Now that we live in a YouTube society where essentially anyone can pick up a camera, film something, transfer the footage to a computer, and edit it in a quick amount of time, a lot of decent amateur films are being produced. Unfortunately, just because nonprofessionals have access to professional-quality technology, this doesn't mean that they automatically have professional-quality ideas. Thus fan movies were born... amateur films that use characters and concepts from an already-known famous work. I am not saying this is a bad thing; after all fan fiction has existed for years and is not going to die any time soon. I'm also a huge fan of a particular Star Wars fan webseries known as Chad Vader. Today while I was browsing Facebook I noticed one of my friends updated her status to mention a prequel to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, which my closest friends and I absolutely...

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