Romancing the Random

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Randomness is in favor.


The website Chatroulette provides an arena for webcam conversations with random participants. CNN’s regular segment Random Moment of the Day reflects on such occurrences as a teenage girl’s dress fabricated with Capri Sun packaging, ice billiards played in a swimming pool in central Texas, and an iPhone app that delivers content directly from the White House, with the idea that such disconnected episodes of everyday life speak to broader societal issues and values. Flarf is touted as an avant-garde poetic form derived from the random word associations that can be forged online. And in the music industry, recording artists are less likely to be deliberate as they once were in arranging the sequence of songs—both the random shuffle and the download/purchase of individual tracks are likely to make intentional arrangements irrelevant and passé.

Read more: http://www.utne.com/Spirituality/Romancing-Random-Events-Genuine-Value.aspx#ixzz1BgSVhic7

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1. and its been discovered that chaos and randomness have a

pattern.

it used to be thought that they didn't.