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Jackson Arn in Artsy:

The “Dogs Playing Poker” paintings, by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, belong to that pantheon of artworks—Michelangelo’s David, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Hopper’s Nighthawks— that are immediately recognizable to people of all ages and backgrounds, including those who don’t readily admit to enjoying art.

So how, pray tell, did a pack of dogs playing poker outlast so many other “serious” paintings?

The Cambridge dictionary tells us that “campanology” means “​the art or skill of ringing church bells.”

It doesn’t give us a collective noun, however, but I’m sure this is it:

A group of bell ringers? That’s a “pubfull”

With more at Pinterest.

Let’s say you have an old-style Flickr photo URL like the following:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/702783_509c609f44.jpg

Now let’s say you want to find the page on Flickr for that photo? Put the photo ID in a URL like this:

https://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=702783

Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback scoured American census records searching for atrocious baby names. The results are compiled in an amusing little book called Bad Baby Names: The Worst True Names Parents Saddled Their Kids With—and You Can Too!. Among the names they discovered were “Toilet Queen,” “Leper,” “Cholera,” “Typhus,” “Stud Duck,” “Loser,”224 “Fat Meat,” “Meat Bloodsaw,” “Cash Whoredom,”“Headless,” “Dracula,” “Lust,” “Sloth,” “Freak Skull,” “Sexy Chambers,” “Tiny Hooker,” “Giant Pervis,” “Acne Fountain,” “Legend Belch,” and “Ghoul Nipple.” The forces of darkness were particularly well represented, with a “Satan,” a “Lucifer,” a “Zombie,” a “Demon,” at least eight children named “Evil,”and at least ten named “Hell.”

That’s just the start. Carlton F.W. Larson, UC Davis, School of Law professor quoted Sherrod and Rayback’s work in a much larger review of the constitutional dimensions of parental naming rights. We might laugh at the names above, but Larson uncovered a mishmash of laws and regulations regarding names that in turn reflect presumptions, biases, technical limitations, and some earnest attempts to protect children from their parents.

BTW – if there is an SEC filing about your deployment, something may have gone terribly wrong.

From Doug Seven explaining how, in 2014, that’s exactly what happened.