http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/27/things-not-to-name-your-baby-part-3974-in-a-series Comments On: Things Not to Name Your Baby: Part 3,974 in a Series by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Also, I think somebody's cultural privilege is showing.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:11:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:03:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by orino]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:22:55 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sandiai]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:21:03 -0800 The Stranger http://xkcd.com/327/
Posted by viiless]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:19:16 -0800 The Stranger I do not know what you people are talking about.
This will be perfectly fine once she gets to high school or college and is known to all of her friends as "Hash" or "Hashy".
Posted by fairly.unbalanced]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:20:13 -0800 The Stranger
The amazing thing is that people are doing it now!

Hashtagging sounds like something from the ARPANET when everyone had 75 baud modems...or else from telegraphs and telexs.

This is the great irony that with 1Gpbs fiber and 3-D graphics we can still say a lot with a few ASCII chars.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:20:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:18:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mahtli69]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:17:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by searunner]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:13:46 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:00:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by OrdinaryMadness.org]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:59:42 -0800 The Stranger
There was also a Brazilian kid named Facebookson - but the judge registering the birth wouldn't accept it ("not a real name"), and they successfully sued for the right to ruin their son's life.
Posted by redemma]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:55:46 -0800 The Stranger Posted by MacCrocodile]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:50:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:44:56 -0800 The Stranger
In the future, kids will have to secure their Gmail and web address at birth to retain IP rights. Hence, unique name.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:44:38 -0800 The Stranger