- Using reserved identifiers as symbol names https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/Symbol-Names.html 2 comments assembly_language
- French Football Federation forbids players from wearing headgear and tights in the name of laicity and out of fear that these become used as Islamic symbols https://www.leparisien.fr/sports/football/football-pourquoi-la-fff-interdit-le-port-des-collants-et-des-casques-au-nom-de-la-laicite-30-04-2024-O7KBZTWGFNDK3A5D7CX26SC6PI.php?at_campaign=Partage+Twitter+CM&at_creation=Le+Parisien&at_medium=Social+media 472 comments soccer
- Belenenses announces judicial victory: “BSAD declares that it has no right of ownership, use or any other over the name, brands, symbols, anthem, motto, history and any figurative element or nominative of the material or immaterial heritage of Belenenses” https://www.zerozero.pt/noticias/belenenses-anuncia-acordo-global-com-antiga-b-sad/726678 11 comments soccer
- Saying goodbye can be a religious statement: To some, the growth of 'Allah hafiz' over 'Khuda hafiz', using a Qur'anic rather than Urdu name for God, is a symbol of change http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/apr/17/pakistan-goodbye-allah-hafiz 11 comments pakistan
- Implementation of a Two Pass Assembler in C : The following implementation used Tries for fast in-memory opcode fetch, generation of intermediate files and symbol tables. It also has the implementation of a loader supporting relocatable addressing. And yes, there is irony in the name. https://github.com/thesyncoder/proprietaryassembler 10 comments compsci
- TiL about the Soyombo Alphabet, developed in 1686 to write Mongolian, based on Devanagari script, having its name derived from the Sanskrit 'Swayambhu' AND that one of its special characters is used as the National Symbol of Mongolia, appearing on its flag, money and rubber stamps and in countryside http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/soyombo_alphabet 65 comments india