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The Dow provides an unpredictable (if you can predict it, you probably have other things to deal with) random seed that determines a location inside of a consis
by tectonic 18y ago
The Dow provides an unpredictable (if you can predict it, you probably have other things to deal with) random seed that determines a location inside of a consistent geographic region. For example, here is today's location in the East Bay area:
http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-05-21&lat=37&long=-122&zoom=9&abs=1 http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date=2008-05-21&...
This allows for unpredictable, spontaneous meet ups of like minded folks.