One humorous little post while I’m thinking about it. XOBIS has ten principal elements: Concept, Language, Object, Work, Being, Place, Object, Event, Time, String. The first letters of these element names don’t add up to anything.

An earlier version of the schema, though, used Name instead of Being. This, of course, spells CLOWNPOETS. We wanted so badly for that to work out, but Name just didn’t make as much sense as Being (given all our discussions at the time). So, in the end… no CLOWNPOETS.

Another fun word twist… Anagram Genius’ anagram server renders Kevin Sean Clarke (my full name) to “Snakelike craven”… Ouch, that hurts!