Randomness!

[packbat]

http://www.livejournal.com/random.bml!

What I learned from this:

• The stereotypes about LJ are true.
  
• Most LJers post quite infrequently.
  
• A lot of LJers don't speak English.
  
• Someone has an LJ with only 2 posts containing only six words (including subject lines), and it got five times as many comments as mine.
  
• The other stereotypes about LJ are also true.
  
• "This journal has been deleted and purged." actually sounds kinda cool.
  
• There are an lot of really bad layouts, but they aren't the majority.
  
• Scratch that, they are the majority. Some of these are just painfully bad. Ultra-narrow columns? Inconsistent borders? Moronic color schemes? What's next, annoying Flash anims?
  
• Oh, marquees. I forgot the marquees. And the animated gifs.
  
• Ah, sweet irony. Someone hotlinked their background pic, and it says "Remote Linking Forbidden".
  
• Wow. A newsfeed with no articles. Funky!
  
• How many LJ accounts are there? 7.3 million? Then how did I randomly get the same one twice?
  
• No way. I actually found an interesting journal purely randomly. And it only took an hour or so of clicking. I'm gonna bookmark it.
  
• And ... back to the stupid. Black on black color scheme? Are they trying to look like idiots?
  
• Another repeat. At this point, I'm guessing that the Random feature is busted. I think I'll end the test here.

Right. Something's very wrong here; according to my calculations, there's less than one chance in a million of getting two repeat hits like this. I wonder if the LJ support people know?

Oh well. At least I found agrumer. I wonder if he'll mind my linking him?

Ooh, his Pigs and Fishes page looks interesting...

Comments

[nanakikun.livejournal.com]

okay um
you be an amateur ^^:
You shouldn't like use the random.bml : D
Use the recentposts tool!
The coolest part is, it even shows hidden friends and private posts
But of course, you have to open it within like, 5 nanoseconds of them hitting SUBMIT 'cuz LJ is just that popular XD

*wanders away*

ddr is, cool
i like ddr
i like is, cool

[nanakikun.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest.bml

'cuz I don't want see someone else post the link first x_x;

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Thank you, but really ... who would it be that would beat you to the link? I haven't seen but one other person commenting here, and he doesn't Livejournal.

*looks at link*

Ah, interesting. It does seem to confirm my observations, however.