[quote user="morbiuswilters"] One note about using /dev/urandom: the kernel entropy tables are generated over time by sampling data from various sources. As such, if the computer is freshly started the kernel will not have much entropy. Most libs that try to read /dev/urandom just block if...

Ah well, what is randomness anyway. I'll leave you to xkcd's wisdom.

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[quote user="DigitalXeron"]If you want random data, just have the user mash the keyboard -- entropy guarenteed.[/quote] Or slurp some data from forums, they're full of users mashing their keyboards. Here, have some entropy: 055a90ubgm8oaräzxdddpaf8b9a4u0zvmlädy s7967qq7q

The person №1 guesses at random, the other two stay silent. It's 50% chance.

I created this solely because I read the articles on this site every once in a while, and because of such I want a random button. I would love on my break from work to just hit random and get some awesome WTF to read before I have to go back to life. If this has already been suggested a million times...

And you haven't even taken into account the fact that on standard systems, rand() is a linear congruential generator. You could probably calculate the probability of each event more accurately, and I think it'll make it even more uneven.

My WTF sticker came in, it looks quite nice on my case if I do say so myself. Upon retrospect it looks like the sticker is a bit lopsided, but oh well... Just wanted to say thanks to anyone responsible for said sticker.