The next time you're looking to do some kind of random selection, like tossing a coin, rolling some number of N-sided dice or selecting lottery numbers, you might like to try this site, which provides precisely those types of service.These are true random numbers, based on atmospheric noise, collected via a radio, as opposed to pseudo-random numbers calculated by some mathematical algorithm.
The site includes a nice discussion of randomness.
If you're a geek, like me, you can even get your random data via HTTP, SOAP or CORBA!
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