A few articles

[conuly]

One on superstition

One on walkable real estate

One on a boy who wants to be a princess for Halloween.
That one reminds me of this and also of this video

Comments

[conuly]

I know, you are about to say that the odds are the same, but no, they're not. Because in most lottos if two people both have the winning numbers, they share the jackpot. And if you chose "your favorite numbers" then they are probably biased toward the sorts of numbers humans tend to select when picking lotto numbers. The random ticket chosen by someone else likely has the same bias. The computer-generated ticket has the same chance of winning, but a lower chance of splitting the winnings if it wins, and thus has a greater potential rate of return.

Wasn't it last year or the year before, dozens of people won the lottery because they all got the same "lucky numbers" in their fortune cookies?

[leora.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I hadn't heard about that.
I guess the cake is a lie, but the cookie speaks the truth.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Similarly, there was a sequence of numbers in the programme Lost which work as lottery numbers. They're a very, very bad idea to pick because you'll be sharing the wealth with a looot of other fans.

[conuly]

Also, they're cursed.