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  2. Name-letter effect - Wikipedia

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    The name-letter effect is the tendency of people to prefer the letters in their name over other letters in the alphabet.Whether subjects are asked to rank all letters of the alphabet, rate each of the letters, choose the letter they prefer out of a set of two, or pick a small set of letters they most prefer, on average people consistently like the letters in their own name the most.

  3. Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator - Wikipedia

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    The Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator is a website that automatically generates complaint letters. The website was created by Scott Pakin in 1994. It allows users to submit the name of the individual or company that the complaint is directed toward. The program then generates a complaint letter that is "general

  4. Brodie knob - Wikipedia

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    Aged Brodie knob on the steering wheel of a forklift Brodie knob on an Oliver tractor Spinner added to the steering wheel of a Rambler Classic. A brodie knob (alternative spelling: brody knob) is a doorknob-shaped handle that attaches to the steering wheel of an automobile or other vehicle or equipment with a steering wheel. Other names for ...

  5. Rebus - Wikipedia

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    A rebus (/ ˈ r iː b ə s / REE-bəss) is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases. For example: the word "been" might be depicted by a rebus showing an illustrated bumblebee next to a plus sign (+) and the letter "n".

  6. Spinner - Wikipedia

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    Spinner (website), a music website owned by AOL; Spinner (wheel), an accessory that goes on an automobile wheel and spins independently; Spinner, a locomotive of the former Midland Railway 115 Class in the UK; a machine used to do spin coating in manufacturing; a wind spinner or whirligig

  7. Wagon-wheel effect - Wikipedia

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    The wagon-wheel effect (alternatively called stagecoach-wheel effect) is an optical illusion in which a spoked wheel appears to rotate differently from its true rotation. The wheel can appear to rotate more slowly than the true rotation, it can appear stationary, or it can appear to rotate in the opposite direction from the true rotation ...

  8. Spinner (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Example of a spinner together with a text box, placed above a check box. A spinner or numeric updown is a graphical control element with which a user may adjust a value in an adjoining text box by either clicking on an up or down arrow, by pressing an arrow key down or moving mouse wheel, [1] causing the value in the text box to increase (if the up arrow is held down) or decrease (if the down ...

  9. Strachey love letter algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Gaboury argues that the love letter generator exposes the impersonality of love, showing that "the false veneer lying at the heart of that most deeply human emotion is pure camp: an exultant love of the artificial". [4]