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Rage Against the Machine up for Christmas No.1 in the UK

amil — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:14:55 -0800

Rage Again against the Machine's Killing in the name is up for Christmas No.1 chart song in the UK due to a Facebook Campaign In a campaign against the usual reality show X-Factor Christmas No.1, a group on Facebook has managed to persuade people in the UK to buy Killing in the Name by Rage against the Machine this week. So far they have managed to hold onto the the top spot.

Name That Newly Found Species, for Charity

filthy light thief — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:28:05 -0800

In 2005, the first comprehensive characterisation of decapod fauna of the continental margin of southwestern Australia was performed. 524 provisional species were identified, including 175 species (33%) that were new to science, each needing to be named. Earlier this year the naming rights for one particular unnamed spotted shrimp went up for auction to support the Australian Marine Conservation Society. Bob Rosenberry, journalist and publisher of Shrimp News International was an enthusiastic bidder, with plans to name the species Lebbeus shrimpnewsii, until he learned he couldn't name it after a commercial entity. The winner was a surprise to all involved: Lucien James "Luc" Longley, retired NBA player. (via) Longley, the first Australian to play in the NBA, was not new to conservation efforts, and had gotten involved with ocean conservation in an earlier effort to preserve Ningaloo Reef. The full report on the 2005 comprehensive characterisation of decapod fauna is available with other Museum Victoria Science Reports (Science Report No. 11 - HTML abstract, 108 pg, 7541 kb PDF) As noted in the Wired (via) article, Lebbeus clarehanna wasn't the first species named as a charity fund-raiser. In 2007, an auction of rights to name 10 newly discovered species of fish efforts raised more than $2 million for conservation in eastern Indonesia, and in 2005 an internet casino paid $650,000 for the right to name the foot-high primate (common name: GoldenPalace.com Monkey; scientific name: Callicebus aureipalatii - Latin for "golden palace"). Last year, you could have won the rights to name a new species of bats. And if you're wondering about the rules for naming newly found fauna, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has the International Code Of Zoological Nomenclature hosted online. Botanicals have their own rules.

My Name is Potato

WCityMike — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:26:17 -0800

"My Name is Potato," Rita Pavone (1977) (SLYT). Previously in the comment section of Mefi (here too), but bizarrely fun enough to be worth a SLYT FPP. Animation done by Guido Manuli at the Bruno Bozzetto studio. "No, I'm an American potato!" [pulls out guns from underneath hat and starts shooting wildly in the air]

Hullo! 'Tis I, Olo Bumbleroot of Haysend!

chillmost — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:46:27 -0800

The Hobbit Name Generator: You have a secret name. Discover it. Also available in Elvish if that's your sort of thing.

Not just for coffee shops and hair salons any more!

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

What, no Phở 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]

Иванов Иван Иванович

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

John Ivan NN Janez Sultano Bērziņš "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

Foucault’s 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.

Voyageman — Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:20:14 -0800

Famous Name Changes What a turn off when you find out Paul David Hewson, Vincent Damon Furnier, William Michael Albert Broad are your favorite rockers (inside)

fnirt — Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:00:24 -0800

Name Distributions in the Social Security Area doesn't sound like hours of fun, but it's wasted a lot of my time today. After visiting a list of the top 100 names for births in 2001 you can check out similar lists going back to 1880.

stchang — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:46:36 -0800

Osama's Place... "In a town full of soldiers, on the edge of Fort Bragg, there could be worse names for a restaurant these days than Osama's Place, but it is hard to think of any."

Sellersburg/Speed — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:10:20 -0800

North Dakota considering name change to get rid of lowly "North" tag and switch to plain "Dakota." The people making those commemorative state quarters are giving them stern looks...

riffola — Sun, 11 Feb 2001 10:49:40 -0800

Bruce Springsteen didn't win the rights to BruceSpringsteen.com, because 2 out of 3 arbitrators decided that The Boss has no right to the domain name. Which is quite surprising considering most other celebs have won the rights to theirs. [ via Signal vs. Noise]

riffola — Mon, 02 Oct 2000 12:43:58 -0800

Don't just sit there, go buy some un-used 3 Letter Acronym domain names for the heck of it.

fpatrick — Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:08:37 -0800

Homophobic decision in my home state is to be appealled. Requests to change one's name are very rarely denied. This judge has really stepped over the line by worrying about "the appearance of [the requester] being married. . . [and] . . . how this would appear to our neighbors, to our shopkeepers and to society at large."

Mo Nickels — Sun, 21 May 2000 07:41:11 -0800

Look at the silly boys with their cute little grindcore band names. Oooh! I'm threatened! I'm quivering! I'm shocked and saddened, saddened and shocked! So scary.

anildash — Tue, 16 May 2000 16:55:47 -0800

Start the "formerly known as formerly known as..." jokes now: I find this tremendously disappointing, but the first person to actually adopt an icon as his name has reversed the decision, a scant 7 years into the adventure.

Prince is, once again, Prince. R.I.P.

grant — Sat, 20 Nov 1999 12:27:33 -0800

Have you helped name the next decade yet? I personally prefer 'the empties'.