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# This is true. The naming of things is very important.
For example, there is a program called the 'Basic Local Alignment Search Tool' (that does local alignments of sequences) - naturally called 'BLAST'.

This means you can say 'let's BLAST that sequence' and sound very active. Other programs called, say, 'LETHARGIC' don't do so well.

100% true.


(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 19 Nov 2007, 22:48, archived)
# I want PONIES
that should make a damn fine ackronym
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 19 Nov 2007, 22:51, archived)
# Our factory once made a device called
a "Control Routing and Audio Processor".

It wasnt very good. And yes, we did sell it under that name :)
(Fiddlers Elbow says the world will end on, Mon 19 Nov 2007, 22:51, archived)
# Bauhaus Undulating Mechanism
Supporting Pressurised Rotation Of Underlying Technology Systems
(I helped save b3ta! The Neville What what what, Mon 19 Nov 2007, 22:53, archived)
# Concurrent Unified Native Transport
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 19 Nov 2007, 22:55, archived)
# We also sold an attack alarm to a fat Arab Sheik.
We called it HIBS, which stood for "Help I'm Being Stabbed".
(Fiddlers Elbow says the world will end on, Mon 19 Nov 2007, 22:58, archived)
# eep stabby sheik
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 19 Nov 2007, 23:09, archived)