Very good article about the Amazon/Macmillan clash
More on ChatRoulette
On “testify“:
The practice of swearing an oath while touching one’s or someone else’s testicles was common in the ancient Near East (Abraham also orders a servant to do just that in Genesis 24:2). Its linguistic memory survives in our word “testify”—testis being the Latin both for “witness” and the male generative gland.
Slime mold-designed transit— this will never happen, you heard it here first
99 things you should have already experienced on the internet unless you’re a loser or old or something. They need a checklist function on the site so you can get your meme score, like the purity test.
Amateur Night 
February 15, 2010 at 1:40 pm |
Wow this is a really good batch. I didn’t know most of those 99 important things, but I am definitely going to miss the chat roulette craze.
February 15, 2010 at 1:49 pm |
yep, that article turned out to be right on the money. On chatroulette, probably 1 in 3 webcams is a guy masturbating, and no one else will talk to you. At all. It’s one of the funniest things I’ve seen on the internet in a while though.