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Vector: shrike

He says:

This is fun in a voyeuristic kind of way...some guy has created a page that uses Google Image Search to look for a randomly generated filename, following the patterns used by various digital cameras. So what you get back is a whole bunch of personal photos posted by random people. Strangely entertaining.

Another way to think of it is as a giant slot machine for amateur porn. :)

http://www.baco.nu/randompicture.shtml

I've been messing about with it for a bit, and I think it's definitely a tool for a glimpse into the ordinary blue-collar angst that is going on all around the world. A "machine for images not important enough to rename."

I used to always get doubleprints of all my various 35 mm film rolls. I'd get good pics back, and then all these odd ones that you couldn't give to your mom or anything. Pictures of "that funny drunk guy from the party -- What was his name?" And of course, the pics were like six months old, so you couldn't even remember why the guy was so funny. Now you have not one, but two pics of this joker. (Assuming you only took his pic once.) I'd put them into a shoebox on top of the fridge, because ... You can't throw those away, it's be like throwing some part of your life away. Using this tool is like looking through that shoebox ....

through everyone's shoebox ...

forever.