Lanyrd (@lanyrd) Randomizer by Chris Thorpe (@jaggeree)

I have very clever and lovely friends.  The fab Chris Thorpe is one of them.  On Friday night I received this email from Chris after seeing him at the Government Digital Service Launch on Thursday, and having my usual grumble about how tired & busy I am.

Chris noticed I needed a way of picking some folks at random to come to #techsmas, but as I know most of them who’ve signed up to track the event, how could I be impartial?

Easy…

Fun little friday night problem

http://lnyrdndmzr.appspot.com/?lanyrd=http://lanyrd.com/2011/techsmas/&number=3

Code is here for transparency…

https://github.com/jaggeree/lnyrdndmzr

uses Random.org to get random numbers which are based on atmospheric noise rather than pseudo random algorithms

http://www.random.org/

Know you’re stacked and also know you need to be impartial, so there you go… and you can even use it again on different Lanyrd events!!!

Awesome, huh!