January 27, 2002

6:34 PM

Names, names, names. Whoever Jerry Hill is, he clearly has a glorious obsession with the naming of things, and he's created a massive but reasonably well-organized compendium of relevant links. It's easy to find sites that will offer to help you name your baby, or your pet; but where else will you find one source for links to sites on "Unfortunate Rose Names"? "Naming Your Homeschool"? "Welsh Castle Names"? "Weird Little Taxes with Oddball Names"? "Jamaican Bus Names"? (The only thing I see lacking is a link to any site about how internet users choose their on-line handles, a topic I find fascinating...)
posted by Kat Allison (6 comments total)

Okay. I finally and definitely cannot stand pop-ups. What do I do?
posted by EngineBeak at 6:57 PM on January 27, 2002

[However: much better link than that intolerably asinine INCH]
posted by EngineBeak at 7:17 PM on January 27, 2002

(a) Really interesting link.

(b) Baring disabling javascript, or third party pop-up killing software, simply leaving your taskbar exposed at the bottom of your main surfing window allows for easy and painless deletion of pop-ups, often before they even get to load.

(c) dong_resin is a family name.
posted by dong_resin at 7:18 PM on January 27, 2002

Re disabling popups... If you use IE, you can use its Security Zones settings to disable JavaScript for certain domains. Here are instructions I wrote for the Mac version (Windows users, you're on your own).
posted by kindall at 7:25 PM on January 27, 2002

really cool link! although I would vote for a list of names that not one American would use:

Adolf
Osama
Beelzebub
Bono

enginebeak: try this
posted by victors at 7:27 PM on January 27, 2002

Superb - thanks. I also found a lot of great links(for example the Vitrivio.ch on architects)which are good in their own right.

P.S. On my end only one pop-under, no big deal.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 9:18 PM on January 27, 2002