12 month ago
deusx : The Video Game Name Generator! - "Canadian Wizard Dynasty"
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15 month ago
Richard Rutter : The name riddle - Highlight the issue and solutions of asking for names in a form.
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17 month ago
43folders : steely who? the original band names - "As a result, the computer came up with 9,087 of the best names for the burgeoning group."
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17 month ago
Richard Rutter : Personal names around the world 1 - Issues with formatting non-English names.
wearehugh : ishida >> blog » Personal names around the world 1
Simon Willison : Personal names around the world - Personal names around the world. I’ve always felt slightly uncomfortable about firstname/lastname fields in forms. Now I know why.
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19 month ago
gleuschk : You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well - WSJ.com - when Ms. Wilson was pregnant with her first child, she ran every baby name she and her husband considered through Google to make sure her baby wouldn't be born unsearchable
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Vitamin has a feature on 'How To Name Your Company' which I've found relatively entertaining... - Been trying to come up with some good names for products recently without an enormous amount of luck. Tricky process.
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24 month ago
gleuschk : The format of arXiv identifiers will change on 1 January 2007 - gone will be all the 'math.CA' stuff. Too bad, kinda.
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26 month ago
gleuschk : "We'll just have to see about that, sport." | Ask MetaFilter - snookiewookums
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Erik Benson is dead. Long live Buster Butterfield McLeod - It's a good name. A classy name. A name that will ring through the ages. A name of someone having altogether too much fun.
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27 month ago
kellan : Buster Butterfield McLeod "never broke my heart, never kicked a puppy, never neglected his friends"... - ... and is not a deadbeat. #
cameron : It's official on change my name for a year on 43 Things - Erik Benson -> Buster Butterfield McLeod
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29 month ago
gleuschk : Where Have All the Lisas Gone? - by Peggy Orenstein
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31 month ago
wearehugh : The Comprehensive Bunny Name List - "This may be all your bunny needs to prepare for the Semantic Web!"
deusx : The Comprehensive Bunny Name List - "NOTE: Use of this list to obtain names for kitties, puppies, gerbils, hamsters, or other fuzzy pets is an abuse of this service and will not be tolerated."
Rod Begbie : The Comprehensive Bunny Name List - A comprehensive list of all known bunny names. "And please, this is not a list of possible bunny names, so don't just send a name a bunny might have." When I was a kid, ours was http://purl.org/ceryle/bunny/#bid0511. [via] #
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34 month ago
deusx : Ingy and the Blg: The Ingy Formerly Known as Brian Ingerson - "So I decided to legally change my name to Ingy dt Net."
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis? - Interesting BBC article on the history of the Menzies / Mingis name and why it is pronounced the way it is. Good bit of history and linguistics stuff with a nice sideline in the impact of new technologies (ie. printing press)
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis? - Round our way, you always pronounced "John Menzies" "John Mingus's". [via] #
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46 month ago
jkottke : Wow, the Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager is a great info visualization tool for viewing baby name popularity
Philippe Janvier : The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager - Enfin un moyen de pouvoir choisir le prénom de ses enfants sur des bases objectives :) [via] #
Eric Meyer : NameVoyager - It takes a minute to figure out how it works, and then it's just fascinating. [via Matt] [via]
Nelson Minar : Baby name voyager - Cool visualization
philgyford : The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager - I kept seeing links to this and ignored them. I shouldn't have, it's lovely. Would be nice if you could fix the scale though.
plasticbag : A java-based visualisation of baby names over time - As talked about by Tim and Rael at ETech 2005
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