Why is it so bad that SHAR is already used?  They are used in two different contexts. Its not trademark'd or a copyrighted :-) Cheers, Jake <div>On 10/19/05, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <<a href="mailto:drernie@opendarwin.org">drernie@opendarwin.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Robert Bachmann wrote: > SHAR is already used for SHell ARchive, see > <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar</a>. Doh!  I meant to Google-check that.  Thanks. :-( Still, its awfully close: the phonemes "sh" and "r" make a good combination.   Time for a game of "acronomyious", where we choose the acronym and reverse-engineer its meaning.  According to FreshMeat, there don't seem to be anyprojects with the names: * shur ("sure") * sher (a form of Urdu poetry) * crush ('rush' was taken) * brush * thresh * shire Of these, my favorite is BRUSH: B rowseable R EST U sing S emantic H TML It's a nice metaphor -- repainting the web in semantic colors. :-) -- Ernie P. > Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote: >> Hi Dimitri, >> >>> How about RAX: >>> >>> * RESTful >>> * API >>> * with XHTML >> >> >> My main concern with "X" in an acronym is that it ties us too closely >> to XML (a la AJAX et al).  Even though we nominally use XHTML, the >> conceptual breakthrough is using semantic HTML as a way to do REST. >> >> Hmmm. "SH" is promising... >> >> SHAR: >> * Semantic >> * HTML >> * APIs for >> * REST >> > SHAR is already used for SHell ARchive, see > <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar</a>. > > > Robert > -- > Robert Bachmann <<a href="mailto:rbach@rbach.priv.at">rbach@rbach.priv.at</a>> (OpenPGP KeyID: 0x4A5CCF10) > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > <a href="mailto:microformats-discuss@microformats.org">microformats-discuss@microformats.org</a> > <a href="http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss"> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss</a> ------------ Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. <drernie at <a href="http://opendarwin.org">opendarwin.org</a>> Ex-Physicist, Marketing Weenie, and Dilettante Hacker Probe-Hacker blog: <a href="http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/">http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/</a> _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:microformats-discuss@microformats.org"> microformats-discuss@microformats.org</a> <a href="http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss">http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>