Meaning of "Yarrow"

Jason Crowder jcrowder at uwyo.edu
Thu Nov 6 16:37:02 UTC 2003


I've used Yarrow in making a Gruit Ale.  Yarrow can have psychotropic
properties.

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 09:24, Gregory Gulik wrote:

> *SIGH*
> A quick google search found this:
> 
> http://www.schneier.com/yarrow.html
> 
> About Yarrow
> Yarrow is a flowering plant with distinctive flat flowerheads and lacy 
> leaves. In China, its stalks have been used as a randomizer in 
> divination since the second millenium B.C. For this reason, Counterpane 
> chose the name Yarrow for its new pseudorandom number generator (PRNG).
> 
> ..and..
> 
> http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/y/yarrow02.html
> 
> 
> 
> Shanon Fernald wrote:
> > Just curious. This has been bugging me. Wasn't "Shrike" the name of a previous release of redhat? I know that the Shrike is from the great sci-fi novel Hyperion. Now if I'm not mistaken, wasn't there a "Yarrow" tree or something in the book too? Is that the relation between these two release names? Sorry if I am totally off-base here, but in the back of my mind this has been driving me crazy.

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