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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- From a Silicon Valley office strewn with bean-bag chairs, a group of twenty-something software engineers is building an unlikely following of terrorist hunters at U.S. spy agencies.

One of the latest entrants into the government spy-services marketplace, palantír Technologies has designed what many intelligence analysts say is the most effective tool to date to investigate terrorist networks.
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As long as Obama doesn't see black ships heading up the Potomac and despair.
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Hey, plenty of people already see black helicopters without Palantíri. :D
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Let's just hope they don't hop onto a pyre, taking their sons along.

That's a great name for a company, though.

And then there's this, a travel clothing company.

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Although de Rohan was the name of a famous and powerful French noble family. Scifi author Michael Scott Rohan is descended from them.
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Huh, I think I knew that :D The Rohan store made no reference to either Tolkien or the French aristocracy, but I rather suspect Tolkien. While Googling, I also came across Rohan Irish Wolfhounds. I don't know how I feel about a bitch named Cridhe Cu Galadriel...
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How do they pronounce it? Is the accent on the first or second syllable?
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Rohan, I assume you mean. You know, I've no clue. I just assumed it was ROhan.
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I have a Rohan shirt. It's not made of ring mail though. :(
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I always find ring mail so impractical, to be honest. And sloppy. You can never get a good crease.
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I thought Rohan was more boiled leather.
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I'm sure the horses would like that better.
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I always find ring mail so impractical, to be honest. And sloppy. You can never get a good crease.
And the rust! Oy!
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