MeRS apparentaly stands for Memorable Random Strings, as Sean B. Palmer was the first to tell me. Probably because he invented them. See his paper on them.
I seem to have found some decent Perl scripts for generating them.
The idea is to use them for coming up with URI names in Blogspace. I like that better than the awful date URIs.
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