Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / With the news that Nancy Reagan has \ | referred to an astrologer when planning | | her husband's schedule, and reports of | | Californians evacuating Los Angeles on | | the strength of a prediction from a | | sixteenth-century physician and | | astrologer Michel de Notredame, the | | image of the U.S. as a scientific and | | technological nation has taking a bit | | of a battering lately. Sadly, such | | happenings cannot be dismissed as | | passing fancies. They are | | manifestations of a well-established | | "anti-science" tendency in the U.S. | | which, ultimately, could threaten the | | country's position as a technological | | power. . . . The manifest widespread | | desire to reject rationality and | | substitute a series of quasirandom | | beliefs in order to understand the | | universe does not augur well for a | | nation deeply concerned about its | | ability to compete with its industrial | | equals. To the degree that it reflects | | the thinking of a significant section | | of the public, this point of view | | encourages ignorance of and, indeed, | | contempt for science and for rational | | methods of approaching truth. . . . It | | is becoming clear that if the U.S. does | | not pick itself up soon and devote some | | effort to educating the young | | effectively, its hope of maintaining a | | semblance of leadership in the world | | may rest, paradoxically, with a new | | wave of technically interested and | | trained immigrants who do not suffer | | from the anti-science disease rampant | | in an apparently decaying society. | | | | -- Physicist Tony Feinberg, in "New | \ Scientist," May 19, 1988 / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;