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One of my favourite things about the chewy Unix core of OS X is all the bizarre comman line utils floating around in there. Jonathan Rentzsch writes about uuidgen in What A Universally Unique Product Name!.

UID stands for "Uli's Unique Item Description". Young Uli originally invented it on a TRS-80 model 100 while on holiday in the Harz mountains, for the purpose of naming every bacterial species he scraped off his boots.

Lol.