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Comment author: philh 30 September 2014 11:29:25AM 3 points [-]

I think the anagram-of-your-name thing works better if you're called Scott Alexander than if you're called Viliam Bur.

It also helps if you're willing to drop an 'n'.

Comment author: Khoth 30 September 2014 06:15:21PM 3 points [-]

It also helps if you're willing to use a pseudonym.

Comment author: gjm 30 September 2014 12:37:54PM 1 point [-]

Indeed. As he puts it:

The name of this blog is Slate Star Codex. It is almost an anagram of my own name, Scott S Alexander. It is unfortunately missing an “n”, because anagramming is hard. I have placed an extra “n” in the header image, to restore cosmic balance.

But adding or dropping letters is probably harder to get away with when you have a shorter name.

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