SPLAT: 1. Name sometimes given to the asterisk (*) character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive from the ‘squashed-bug’ appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers.
The idea started with Phil*, but philasterisk.com is too, I don’t know, LONG, unattractive, not… enough. Yeah, I know, Splat’s probably too much.
But that’s the story. So it looks like a bug getting squished. Cool. Splat.
Why an asterisk? Well the first idea was this: a by-line indicates the ‘talent’, the author. I think it’s appropriate to footnote with the notion that I (we) usually are standing on the shoulders of giants.
