MetaFilter posts tagged with name

Not just for coffee shops and hair salons any more!

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:07:36 -0800

What, no Ph� King? BWE's Top 50 Punny Store Names.

Laverne Salmons, Adrian Turner, Stormy Spellman, Ruth Torres.....

dersins — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:20:20 -0800

Need to name a character? Use this random name generator. Hit refresh to, uh, refresh. Explanation here. [via]

20=>2 20= 20=>28G

mdonley — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:59:45 -0800

John Ivan NN Janez Sultano BrziFa "John Doe" around the world.

Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:49:11 -0800

Here is an alphabetical list of the most popular music stars real names.

What's in a name?

beagle — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:43:19 -0800

Thousands of new products and businesses every year need names. The creation of these names, is a business in itself, and is usually a pretty secretive process. But Igor, a naming and branding agency, offers a surprisingly detailed and illuminating primer on the naming game. Igor describes how they do it and who they’ve done it for. Igor’s naming taxonomy charts for various products (including one for the company names of naming companies) help illustrate the research portion of the process. Check out: studies of successful names like Pepperidge Farm’s cookie names, and why AT&T Canada’s name change to Allstream was a bad idea. And don’t miss Igor’s two blogs (metablogged here): Snark Hunting, “all about naming and branding in popular culture” and Wordlab, on “naming and branding issues.” For fun, try Wordlab’s own tongue-in-cheek naming tools, like the Drug-o-matic drug name generator, Name Your Band, and the Morpheme generator.

How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. . .

Unregistered User — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:27:45 -0800

Foucaults Pendulum Art Inspired by Umberto Eco’s novel, entitled: Foucault’s Pendulum the artist Lukas Arciniegas has created a series of beautiful illustrations. Also of note: The Holy War: Mac VS Dos [Do check out the sidebar] "Faith in Fakes"? Also see: an actual pendulum. And Dan Brown? Bleh...

Call me Ol' Angelo Fatnose.

mickeyz — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:30:27 -0800

Call me Ol' Angelo Fatnose. In anticipation of the return of The Sopranos on Sunday night, I'm wondering: what's your Mafia name?

Not another Name Generator!!!!

Bag Man — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:58:52 -0800

Smurf Name Generator. It doesn't suck, that bad.

They call this research?

banished — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:59:29 -0800

Attractiveness of your name is linked to attractiveness of your face. Even more interesting, the so called "professional" researcher used the service "Hot or Not" to conduct her research by uploading fake profiles.

Mozilla criticized for name conflict after announcement

TreeHugger — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:06:15 -0800

The name "Firebird" was chosen by Mozilla to rename their Phoenix product. However, Firebird is also the name of a popular and long-standing open-source database project -- and the Mozilla organization was clearly aware of this naming conflict before making their decision. Some feel that such an action, within the context of the open-source community, is unfair and constitutes bad etiquette, at the least. The discussion is ongoing, but LinuxWorld reports that the Mozilla organization has deleted recent message-board comments that criticized their decision.