I just discovered these two gems on Metafilter:

1. Vin Diesel Fact Generator. They’re all fake, but some are pretty hilarious. This one was pretty good: “Vin Diesel led a failed attempt to rescue Terri Schiavo, he was thwarted by The Communist Youth Brigade in the halls of the hospice who know his only weakness is a fear of shiny foil balloons.”

2. The Random Times. All the news is fake, randomly generated. My favorite is the last line of the horoscopes, which tells you what’s “lucky” today. Here are some examples:

• Lucky orange thing: an orange
• Lucky chess opening gambit: Petrov’s Defence
• Lucky UNIX command: nice
• Lucky large-scale producer of brine: the Pacific Ocean
• Lucky bearded prophet: Jesus
• Lucky thing made of tin: the Bastille
• Lucky wind noise: whooooossssssssh
• Lucky colour: taupe
• Lucky starch derivative: kapok
• Lucky celebrity garment: Batman’s trousers
• Lucky maritime smell: oilskin
• Lucky root vegetable: bacon

Speaking of randomness, has anyone ever noticed the random tooltips on the link to entry comments on the Sinosplice weblog? Hmmm, I didn’t think so.