Photography plus the absurd randomness of the internet can equal a lot of fun. My current favorite website is Drew's Random Livejournal Picture Generator. Before you click, some background information. Background Part I: Livejournal.com is a leading "blogging" site especially among young people aged 16-19 (check out Livejournal's live stats page for more info). A lot of posts are your typical angsty teenage litanies, but the sheer vastness of the livejournal community means that there are some bizarre entries in there--and some equally bizarre photos.Background Part II: My daily morning computer ritual always includes a visit to Toothpaste for Dinner, where there's a new funny drawing every day. I also subscribe to the TfD newsletter, where Drew (the artist) tells us stories and gives us updates.A few days ago, the newsletter included the following:

NOW you can
look at my page and see livejournal pictures! how does this work, you ask?! well, thanks to the work of some internet coding geniuses, you can use a bit of code to pull the most recently-posted livejournal pictures off the site, and stick them on a page! ...here's the address.http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/livejournal-pictures.php
you can reload the page and get 100 new images, too. i hope you enjoy this page, it is pretty great, it's like a tiny window into the bowels of humanity. i have found some pretty funny stuff on it, and a lot of pictures of stout russian dudes doing weird crap like fighting each other with golf clubs, or sitting at a table covered in flour and smoking four cigarettes at once.

As for me, my favorite images so far have been a scanned-in colored pencil drawing of superheroes and a little boy all dressed up for Mardi Gras. It truly is fascinating. If you come across anything extra-crazy, post it in the comments. Okay, are you still with me? Has your appetite for internet photograph craziness been properly whetted? Well, then check out an awesome "small-world" post on the Flickr Blog. It doesn't need much explanation--just take a look and proceed to marvel at the connecting abilities of the web.Now, for the last link, something relatively more traditional. Simon Hoegsberg is in the midst of a project wherein he stops random people on the street, takes their picture, and asks "What are you thinking right now?". Like the livejournal photos, it's an odd and addictive window into people's minds.