{"id":721,"date":"2010-02-25T22:20:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=721"},"modified":"2010-02-25T22:20:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:20:11","slug":"chatroulette-com-what-nsfw-was-invented-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"www.chatroulette.com  What NSFW was invented for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/chatroulette.com\" target=\"_blank\">chatroulette.com<\/a>.\u00a0 What an odd place that is. I first heard about it in an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/blog\/2010\/feb\/14\/chatroulette\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian Technology section<\/a>.\u00a0 Not for nothing does the article call it the &#8220;web&#8217;s weirdest outpost&#8221;.  The site will randomly connect you and your webcam (should you choose to enable it) to a complete stranger&#8217;s webcam for an anonymous chat.\u00a0\u00a0 No login required, registration required, you just click and go.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve no idea who&#8217;ll you get next.\u00a0 Aside from dodging erections, amongst others I&#8217;ve had an half session with a chatty couple getting stoned on a Friday afternoon in Seattle,\u00a0 an Iranian who couldn&#8217;t speak English but could converse in Techno, a girl who wanted me get my knob out, a man whose was completely covered in tin foil, a fat man shagging a stuffed raccoon and a toy camel who promised to answer any question I had.<\/p>\n<p>This video, hosted over on Vimeo gives a decent overview;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9669721&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9669721&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>and watch the following for a wacko sing into it.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ottA6kjdV5I&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ottA6kjdV5I&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you do get chatting to someone halfway human it can be a laugh.  However, I warn you though, if you get entrenched on there clicking next over and over, as someone pointed out over on the Guardian comments section &#8220;it&#8217;s a day destroyer&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;chatroulette.com.\u00a0 What an odd place that is. I first heard about it in an article in The Guardian Technology section.\u00a0 Not for nothing does the article call it the &#8220;web&#8217;s weirdest outpost&#8221;. The site will randomly connect you and your webcam (should you choose to enable it) to a complete stranger&#8217;s webcam for an anonymous &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=721\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;www.chatroulette.com  What NSFW was invented for&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}