WWF maximum cards from Somalia: Soemmerring's Gazelle (Nanger soemmerringii; formerly Gazella soemmerringii). Speke's Gazelle (Gazella spekei) is the smallest of the gazelle species.

What do YOU know about Somalia, besides "Pirates of the Somalian [Coast]"?
"Black Hawk Down"? That was a case of mis-allocation of resources: DON'T send your troops in the harm's way, without proper support!

Soomaaliya?
I see three redundant letter/sounds here.
"Somalia" is clear enough for me. :)
Every language in the world, including English, Esperanto, etc., is too imperfect, not phonetic enough, not optimized. None is 100% "what-you-read-is-what-you-pronounce".
There are thousands of languages and dialects, and about 26 (?) major languages.
Every language has a lot of unnecessary complications and other problems, I think.
Or, do you have a counterexample? :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia

Do you have a gazelle species named after you?
I bet you don't.
But some people do:
Speke's Gazelle, G. spekei
Cuvier's Gazelle, G. cuvieri
Thomson's Gazelle, E. thomsoni
Soemmerring's Gazelle, N. soemmerringii
Grant's Gazelle, N. granti


"Speke's Gazelle (Gazella spekei) is the smallest of the gazelle species. Partially sympatric withG. gazella pelzini, it is confined to the horn of Africa where it inhabits stony brush, grass steppes, and semi deserts (Kingdom 1982, 1997). "
"This Gazelle is currently (2008) classified as endangered under the IUCN Red List."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speke's_gazelle

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Temporarily territorial:
"The Soemmerring's Gazelle is a tall gazelle with tan flanks, gradually turning to white on the belly, and long black horns. They are approximately 0.6-0.9 m (2-3 ft.) at the shoulder, and they weigh 35-45 kg (77-99 lb). The diet of the gazelle consists of acacia and bush leaves, grasses, and herbs. They inhabit open steppes with brush and acacia, as well as steppes with few trees, and scientists suggest that male Soemmerring's are temporarily territorial."


From the gazelles' perspective, there's no such thing as an O.K. Corral; no corral is OK:
"In many parts of North Africa and the Middle East, large stone corrals were constructed to drive herds of gazelle into, making for an easy ambush. This method of hunting started in prehistoric time and continued into the early part of the twentieth century. One interesting fact is that at some point in history, a Soemmerring's gazelle population became isolated on Kebir Island in the Dahlak archipelago where the gazelle actually developed a dwarf form of the larger mainland races."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soemmerring's_Gazelle

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Useful information from FEEDJIT: Rule #1: Never get someone with a low quality or spammy site to link to you. Ever.

I like feedjit.com. I use the free version.
You see on this blog that I have Feedjit Live Traffic Feed and Feedjit Live Traffic Map.
At the bottom of the Feedjit Live Traffic Feed box, I click on Real Time View.
That is a very interesting thing to analyze your website.
Mine is this: http://live.feedjit.com/live/dorincard.blogspot.com/0/

http://feedjit.com/blog/2010/the-daily-feed-issue-10-the-rules-of-linking/

It looks like we should strictly limit the number and assess the quality of the websites linked to our own websites.

Now let's talk about EDITING.

Whenever you write something, it's very useful to EDIT it: maybe there are mistakes, redundancies, etc.

When somebody points out to you a mistake in your text, then your best attitude would be to honestly admit it, and to see what can be done to fix it.

You can be grateful to your new, unofficial editor right then, later, or never.

What do YOU (people from around the world) think of this?

I have sent this email to feedjit about the above hyperlinked issue10:

"What's the difference between rule#1 and 4?

:)

"Rule #1: Never get someone with a low quality or spammy site to link to you. Ever. 

This will hurt your ranking in Google and it's tough to recover once you've been flagged as a spam site or part of a "bad neighborhood". 

Rule #4: Only link to high quality sites no matter how badly someone begs or pleads that you link to them.

Linking to a spam or low quality site will hurt your ranking."

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I got this answer:

"Hi Dorin,

We were just trying to point out the difference between bad sites linking to you and your site linking to bad sites so people would think about both of these types of links. Most people just worry about who their site links to and don't think about the impact of having bad sites link to them."
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Well, I get the point, it makes sense, but I think that this answer is...DEFLECTIVE.
I wish that my question got a straight answer.


Anyway, I strongly recommend everybody to visit http://feedjit.com and select at least the cool, free widgets that I mentioned above, if not the paid pro version.
:)

Yes, that's an euphemism. postage stamp from Zazzle.com

Yes, that's an euphemism. postage stamp from Zazzle.com