What is the meaning of your username / nickname?

Hey, sorry for the late reply man. The site is pretty simple to use, and very tedious. Thus it's only really useful if you want to find a completely unique username. This is because it generates completely random pages of letters. :)

Library of Babel is cool because it has every combination out there, you could search "For Venturio" and it will come up with a page called that. It's pretty cool because knowing this, you soon realise there's a page with the name of your future wife, or the meaning of the universe, etc, etc.

Your best bet on how you should use it, is to simply click "Random" and go through the pages on the book it brings you too. Look for a set of words you think would be a good username, and Google it to see if it's been used a lot before.
Can't find anything in the book? Go back to home (by clicking "Back to Portal") and click "Random" again and you'll get another book. It's by no means time effective, but it's your best bet on getting a unique word for a name.

Here's some quotes from the site:

"The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in short, it’s just like any other library. If completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books."

"We do not simply generate and store books as they are requested - in fact, the storage demands would make that impossible. Every possible permutation of letters is accessible at this very moment in one of the library's books, only awaiting its discovery. We encourage those who find strange concatenations among the variations of letters to write about their discoveries in the forum, so future generations may benefit from their research."

"The library is divided into hexagonal chambers, each with 4 walls of bookcases, five shelves per wall, and 32 volumes per shelf."

One of the key reasons I used it, is because it's very hard for the human brain to come up with something completely unique, if not impossible. Because every idea we come up with is inspired by other things. :) And I couldn't think of any few meaningful words that add together to create a cool, unique name I could use.

I am zoologist, specialty crustaceans.
Loved the name kellicottia and removed the second l.

Yeah. That was also part of the reason. But tell no one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH9jVp8i2Ts&t=3m5s
that's where I've heard it for the first time, long before I even understood English enough to know what he said (and actually to know that it is Oppenheimer as well ;P)

I heard a report about the evolution of german surnames in the radio the other day, especially about the names Meier/Meyer/Maier (see e.g.). Having that in mind, I intentionally misspelled Oppenheimer -> Oppenhaimer, so the 4, not the 3.

Thanks for the explanation! :)

Well, I doubt I will ever finish it so I think I can tell you.
The story is about a dystopian country where whole system is built on rasicm and nationalism. Well maybe not that much dystopian cos it turns out this system actually works in terms of society togetherness and the growth of this nation. The whole plot however concetrates on some kind of police department and their investigation about rebels who wants to get rid of the system. Rebels are lead by the guy named Hunt who is idealist and wants good but it turns out that every great idea finally goes wrong and rebels start terrorize society. Kalo is one of the policemen who chases rebels. In the end you can see that both sides are blind and noone here is really good or bad person.
I wannted this book to be original in terms of composition plus I wanted to concentrate on building authentic characters (so it won't be black or white only) and characters' relations.

I used to that name I even managed to unintentionally sign myself "Jon" in real life when I was sending an e-mail somewhere :P

All of my friends are spread around the globe and cant find new one for football games sadly ..

Agreed. It's like naming yourself "King Killer" or something. I'm kinda jealous.