On 10/01/11 05:59, David Blevins wrote:

On Sep 30, 2011, at 4:11 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:

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It'd need a name (we've been picking animal bits recently eg 'eye' and 
'whisker' if you're short on inspiration)

How about tentacle.  As in the thing cephalopods use to wrap an otherwise 
impenetrable shell and forcibly pry it open, exposing it's contents for 
consumption.

That could work for a tool that grabs the binaries (shells), cracks them open 
and displays their contents for the public.

  bob: "We're going to do a release!"
  joe: "I can't wait to get my tentacles on it."

Maybe the plural, tentacles.  You can't do much with one tentacle.

+1

I like tentacles :-)

Robert

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