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unusual facts about Random.org


White noise

For example, Random.org uses a system of atmospheric antennae to generate random digit patterns from white noise.


2012 Dnipropetrovsk explosions

Matthew Rojansky, on CNN, suggested several possible motivations for the attack, ranging from random acts of violence, or the work of gangs from Ukraine’s criminal underworld and endlessly feuding oligarchs, to international terrorism linked to al-Qa'eda, up to the eventual involvement of Russian secret services.

Alfred Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf or Knopf Publishing Group, subsidiary of Random House

AltaRock Energy

Founded in 2007 by serial entrepreneur Andrew Perlman and his business partners, AltaRock has received backing from investors such as Google.org, Advanced Technology Ventures

Arduin

Created by Hargrave as a tongue-in-cheek tribute, the adventure itself was essentially a quest to gain life-prolonging treasure while avoiding Mazmanian's wandering Avatar, an extremely powerful Lich-like entity who would either attack or help a party on random percentage roll.

Arlöv

The former office building of Danisco Sugar was bought in 2008 by the Church of Scientology who opened their new church, a so-called "Ideal org" there in 2009.

Bayesian multivariate linear regression

Bayesian approach to multivariate linear regression, i.e. linear regression where the predicted outcome is a vector of correlated random variables rather than a single scalar random variable.

BluegrassReport.org

The blog, which further covers ongoing intra-party operations, political issues and scandals, was started in June 2005 by Democratic consultant Mark Nickolas, former campaign manager for both Speaker of the Kentucky House Jody Richards and U.S. House Rep. Ben Chandler's 2003 gubernatorial campaign.

Chikara Season Five

A random draw would see Delirious selected as Wicked’s partner and the two would make their way to the semi-finals with wins over Crossbones and Rorschach plus Cheech and Cloudy in the first two rounds before beating Team DDT (KUDO and Kyohei Mikami).

Christian Dornier

Christian Dornier (born c. 1958) is a French mass murderer, who shot to death his sister and mother and wounded his father with a 12-gauge double-barrelled shotgun at their farm on July 12, 1989, afterwards driving through the village of Luxiol and the adjacent area, shooting people at random.

Christoph Peters

It was followed by a collection of short stories in 2001, and, in 2007, his first novel to be published in English, The Fabric of Night (Random House).

Clean Energy Bank

These two bills received bipartisan support and have been endorsed by the US Chamber of Commerce, Google.org and the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA).

Cristina Lopes

While at PARC, She was most known as a founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and started aspectj.org.

David P. Robbins

Robbins constant, the average distance between two random points in a unit cube

Distinguisher

Distinguishing attack, a cryptographic attack that distinguishes a ciphertext from truly random data

Edwin Cameron

He is the general secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships in Southern Africa (www.rhodestrust.org.za) and is a patron of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.

FactCheck.org

At the time of the debate, factcheck.com was controlled by Frank Schilling's company Name Administration Inc., who quickly redirected the address to point to an anti-Bush website owned by Bush critic George Soros.

Four-Calendar Café

The songs "Bluebeard" and "Know Who You Are at Every Age" were covered by Cantopop artist Faye Wong for her 1994 album Wu Si Lyun Seung or Random Thoughts.

Gauss pseudospectral method

JModelica.org (Modelica-based open source platform for dynamic optimization)

Gaussian field

A Gaussian random field, a field of Gaussian-distributed random variables

Georg Nees

In order to create this art, Nees also wrote some of the world's first graphics libraries, packages named G1, G2, and G3 that extended the ALGOL programming language by adding commands for controlling a plotter and generating random numbers.

Ghoti

In the computer game Minecraft, a "splash text" (random sentence) is displayed on the title screen.

Government

According to Australian philosopher John Burnheim, random selection of policymakers would make it easier for everyday citizens to meaningfully participate, and harder for special interests to corrupt the process.

Harry Crosby

Wolff, Geoffrey: Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby (Random House, 1976) ISBN 0-394-47450-3; (repr. New York Review of Books, 2003) ISBN 1-59017-066-0

Homoglyph

Commonly, this is implemented by prohibiting names which mix character sets from multiple languages (toys-Я-us.org would be invalid, but wíkipedia.org and wikipedia.org still exist as different websites); Canada's .ca registry goes one step further by requiring names which differ only in diacritics have the same owner and same registrar.

Jessica Palmer

Random Factor - Scholastic (Jun 16 1994) ISBN 0-590-55665-7, ISBN 978-0-590-55665-1

Jim Babka

However, before the foundation team could complete the new Downsize DC site, they were inspired by Harry Browne, Jude Wanniski, and Attorney Bill Olson to launch a site called TruthAboutWar.org.

John Nathan-Turner

Doctor Who - The TARDIS Inside Out (May 1985, Picadilly Press Ltd., by John Nathan-Turner and illustrated by Andrew Skilleter, Paperback; October 1985, Random House Children's Books (library), Hardback)

Kafila

Kafila.org is a group blog where members post opinions on current affairs, mostly related to India.

Kim Herzinger

Was recently filmed as a random "contestant" on the popular Discovery Channel show "Cash Cab" .

Komputeko

Others who have availed themselves of Komputeko include Cindy McKee's KDE and Joomla translation teams, Esperanto Wikipedia founder Chuck Smith's Drupal translation and the former Amikumu projects, Tim Morley's OpenOffice.org translation team, Guillaume Savaton's GNOME translation team, the translation teams for Plone and Xfce, and Joop Kiefte's Ubuntu translation team.

MIRIAM Registry

The URL form is directly resolvable, and relies on a resolving layer provided by Identifiers.org.

New Jersey Association for Infant Mental Health

Some of the original group were the late Thea Bry, Gerard Costa, Susan Adubato, Elaine Herzog, and Nancy Murphy, all of whom were involved with parent education and treatment of infant and family mental health problems www.njaimh.org.

Question mark

In recent XFree86 and X.Org incarnations of the X Window System, it can be accessed as a compose sequence of two straight question marks, i.e. pressing ?

Ramrai

Notable people from the village include Chaudhary Dal Singh, the first Irrigation and Power Minister of Haryana, and Parminder Singh Dhull, the MLA for the Julana constituency of the Haryana Legislative Assembly for term 2009-2014, and Amarjit Singh Dhull founder of IB School Rohtak, Ukindo international charity (www.ukindo.org), Vision Fostering (UK) amongst others.

Random neural network

A highly energy-efficient implementation of Random Neural Networks was demonstrated by Krishna Palem et al. using the Probabilistic CMOS or PCMOS technology and was shown to be c.

Scilla Elworthy

In 1982 she founded the Oxford Research Group (ORG) an NGO which independently researched decision-making on security in the five major nuclear nations during and after the Cold War and brought together policy-makers, academics, the military and civil society to engage in dialogue.

Susan Buffett

According to Roger Lowenstein's 1995 Random House biography, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, while Warren encouraged Susan to pursue her career in music, he was soon heartbroken by her move.

The Chemist

The Chemist (user) a known user on punknews.org or orgsummit.com, known for his obsession with Lagwagon.

The Felix Culpa

For their second release, The Felix Culpa released THOUGHTCONTROL (2005, Common Cloud Records) - an EP/DVD combo that featured 4 new songs, a video for "A Murderer" (Commitment), a live set at the Knights of Columbus, Arlington Heights, IL, and roughly 2 hours of random tour footage.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Laurence Perrine wrote, "the poem presents the apparently random thoughts going through a person's head within a certain time interval, in which the transitional links are psychological rather than logical".

TheMusicLibrary.org

Olympic skating champion Ekaterina Gordeeva has performed to music from TheMusicLibrary.org during her TV specials such as NBC's Katarina Witt and Friends.

Think Fast!

The "uncles" were enormously fat men who would be snacking on bowls of random food items which included popcorn, tortilla chips, candy and Pepto-Bismol.

Timothy L. O'Brien

He is currently under contract with Random House for a series of historical novels that take place between the American Civil War and World War I.

Veterans' court

Bi-monthly urinalysis must be conducted at random either in a treatment facility or at the VA hospital.

West Midlands bus route 19

The service was previously operated by NXWM and Arriva Midlands who operated it as route 319 during daytime hours, but in mid-2008 NXWM rerouted the service creating the 319A and in late 2008 Arriva Midlands withdrew from the route causing the slightly random number.

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Treasures of Knowledge

At the start of the game, Carmen steals a rare Franco-Italian edition of The Travels of Marco Polo (which conveniently has the title written on the cover in English) and, as the game progresses, she goes on to steal a Māori wood carving, Incan Quipus and other seemingly random items.

Witeck Communications, Inc.

Witeck-Combs Communications helped openly gay (and lesbian) actors Amanda Bearse and Dan Butler to communicate honestly to celebrate and promote National Coming Out Day by serving as the first celebrity spokespersons for the Human Rights Campaign Fund (since renamed the Human Rights Campaign (www.hrc.org).

X.Org Foundation

The modern X.Org Foundation came into being when the body that oversaw X standards and published the official reference implementation joined forces with former XFree86 developers.

Yordenis Ugás

" Later Ugás beat Russian Khabib Allakhverdiyev and in the final he outfought Romal Amanov from Azerbaidjan. Cubanet.org writes "Yordenis Ugas, a sharp, technically accomplished fighter but with a suspect jaw, won the lightweight gold for Cuba after an explosive toe-to-toe clash with Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan.


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