The idea behind Omegle is really simple. You come to the site, you hit “Start a chat” and now you’re chatting with someone completely random and anonymous. Discuss politics, fend off creepy inquiries, whatever. Or, if you’re me, pretend to be an alien:

You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: greetings, earthling
Stranger: meeep mop meeep meep
You: this planet is full of robots. how delightful!
Stranger: indeed
You: we thought it prudent to communicate through this anonymous channel
You: plausible deniability
Stranger: uh. ok? lol
You: you will all die
Your conversational partner has disconnected.

Awesome. They just visited Goma, Congo.

For a few hours, the children forget their experiences of fleeing homes and witnessing violence, said the president of Kibati camp. The clowns also went beyond IDP camps near Goma to reach isolated camps in Kitchanga and Masisi, performing in front of a total of 48,000 people.

Here’s a video I found of them performing elsewhere:

I came across this from an old, old email. It’s a parody of Confucius’ Analects, which I read in college. I remember some of the real thing sounding about this ridiculous.

I.
Lady Yee said, “The men of Ch’in are kind, but not discriminating.”
“That is correct,” the Master said.
Lady Yee said, “The men outside of Ch’in are discriminating, but not kind.”
“That is correct,” the Master said.
Lady Yee said, “I wish for a husband who is both kind and discriminating.”
The Master said, “Good luck.” II.
Lady Yee sat by the river weeping.
“What is troubling you?” the Master said.
“I am excessively sarcastic!” Lady Yee said.
The Master said, “That is false.”
“And I shall never be accepted in the eastern provinces!”
The Master said, “That is also false.”
“And one of my eyes is closer to my forehead than the other!
” The Master said, “You have a baseline level of anxiety.”

III.
The Master said, “You stupid cat.”

IV.
The Master said, “Lady Yi was good; Queen Pei was adaptable. Lady Yee is both good and adaptable.”
Lord Yu said, “What is the signifance of this?”
The Master said, “I am not sure.”

Lest you get an ass whupping:

Funny, good:

via Lessig Blog

This is a fantastic little instructable about how to invent, manufacture, and market a card game. It’s a great instructable not only because it’s filled with useful nuggets of information, but because it’s so entertaining to read. That’s what makes Instructables very different from wiki-based diy sites: the best content aims to be a story, not a dry set of instructions that normalizes over time to be comprehensive but mediocre.

This looks like a hilarious B-movie. I don’t speak Thai, obviously, but I got the gist:

Found via My Muay Thai

My friends and I have spent an embarrassing number of hours reliving our adolescent days, coming up with these groan-worthy puns. Occasionally, a few will touch upon the absurd and, very rarely, the sublime. After the jump I present to you the current, canonical list of Er-jokes. Add more in the comments or in emails and I’ll keep the list updated.

Update: The best ones from the comments have been added to the canon as of 12/18/2009.

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More playing around with Blip.tv. Here’s a vid of us at Instructables going crazy on a little ski jump that we built:

And here’s a random car fire that we passed by on the way home. Skip to the end if you want the exciting part…