Tags » naming things

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  How I name my computers

  What do flaming birds, man-eating giants, and obscure deities have in common?

• What is psephology?

  It’s the scientific study of elections and voting, and it comes from the Greek word for “pebble”, because pebbles were used for voting in ancient Greece.

• TIL: Why the term “snak” keeps appearing in the Wikidata API

• TIL: The acronym “woe” in the Flickr API stands for “Where On Earth”