25 Random Things. Literally.

I have, up until this point, found no rea­son to par­take in the lat­est online craze — Facebook’s 25 Ran­dom Things About You. It’s sim­ply an online chain let­ter that involves shar­ing 25 ‘ran­dom’ facts about your­self with the Face­book com­mu­nity, which has made me won­der not about the hun­dreds of facts I’ve been read­ing about peo­ple, but about the very nature of ran­dom­ness itself. And before I get too exis­ten­tial I now present:

25 Ran­dom Things. Lit­er­ally.

  1. iPod Shuf­fle
  2. Roulette
  3. Not Nat­ural Selection
  4. Door prizes
  5. Chaos the­ory
  6. Schrödinger’s cat
  7. Tony Abbot
  8. Peo­ple who sneeze in multiples
  9. Google’s I’m Feel­ing Lucky
  10. Wikipedia’s Ran­dom Articles
  11. Pick­ing a card, any card
  12. How To Be Random
  13. Flash mobs (about 4 years ago)
  14. X: Ω → Y (an equa­tion for a ran­dom vari­able in a mea­sur­able space)
  15. Pseudo-random num­bers
  16. Ran­dom Cats
  17. Com­puter RAM (Random-access memory)
  18. Lady Sov­er­eign
  19. Some acts of kindness
  20. Some drug tests
  21. Dice
  22. True Ran­dom Num­ber Generator
  23. Ran­dom pass­word generator
  24. The Emo Band-Name Generator
  25. Radioac­tive decay

    6. March 2009



    3 Comments

    Bree

    This would have to be my favourite ironic response to a cur­rent trend today.

    esther

    I don’t believe that Google’s I’m Feel­ing Lucky is ran­dom at all. It is the first page that comes up in your search, that’s all. Sorry. I should prob­a­bly know bet­ter than to take a swing at a writer’s ego.

    Andrew

    Ah, you are so right. I am hum­bled and dis­cred­ited :)