security there was mention of something called "Shibboleth". It was part of
an Internet 2 meeting. Interesting stuff. In this context, it's a means for
universities to share information about their users for access to shared
resources.
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/
But the word was intriguing enough for me to Google it. As expected it's
Hebrew, specifically from Judges. (It was going to be either that or a made
up Cthulhu reference.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
What's curious to me is where it also gets used.
There's a sourceforge project by the name of Shibboleth that appears to be
about defining trusted users for mailing lists.
http://shibboleth.sourceforge.net/
There's a paper on Ebonics.
http://www.csa.com/hottopics/ebonics/overview.html
A band.
http://www.goshibbolethgo.com/
A Thanksgiving episode of West Wing
http://westwing.bewarne.com/second/30shibboleth.html
And the most humorous, an online dictionary that has a sound clip telling
you how to pronounce it.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/11/S0341100.html
I'll have to see if I can add this word to my personal lexicon. Because of
the Internet 2 project I will probably end up using it in that context
anyway. It's interesting to me though that the sourceforge project appears
to be a different thing using the same name. Both opensource.
Okay, enough procrastinating.
-Kevin
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