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Robot Music: It Ain’t Just Techno
Back of the Cereal Box | 11 hours ago
Today: Robots and music, but not in the freaky way automatons will one day usurp humans as the creators of culture. (Though that will happen, and robo-rock will dominate the airwaves, to the dismay of any still-surviving human ears.) I will discuss, read more
The Name Game
Freaky Frugalite | July 7th 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber
Post from: Freaky Frugalite The Name Game I think every once in a while I have a post about an online quiz I’ve done, and then a disclaimer where I say that I don’t do these things very often. I may have to scratch that. :S But this one i read more
Felicity Schickfick
Back of the Cereal Box | July 7th 2008
As the result of aimless Wikipedia-wandering, I somehow ended up on the page for Heather Graham’s character in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Why she warrants her own Wikipedia page, I couldn’t tell you, but the article includes an intere read more
Traoré and Touré
The Best Eleven | July 6th 2008 by Steve
I've noticed in the past that there are a quite a few Traoré's and Touré's playing soccer in Europe and Asia (and even one Touré in the USL-1 in the United States). Here are all of the Traoré's and Touré's currently playing around the world th read more
Blog and Website Domains for Sale
Blogging Startup | July 6th 2008 by Jim Lockwood
I’ve been cleaning out the closet and found a few domains I have that I’d like to sell. They’re sorta like the stationary bike in my garage…I bought them with great intentions, but just never got around to using them. I̵ read more
ICANN Loses Control of Its Own Domain Names
Life, Ain't It Simple! | July 5th 2008
NotNormallyNormal writes "CBC picked up an AP story about ICANN newly losing control over two of their domain names on Thursday, June 26. A domain registrar run by the group transferred the domains to someone else. ICANN's press release had this to s read more
If I Name My Deceased Baby-Will People Say It?
Just a Cloud Away "Love Talk" | July 5th 2008 by giftsforloss
Did you choose a name after seeing the 2 pink lines? Did you choose a name after feeling the first kick? Did you choose a name after you found out the gender of your baby? Did you choose a name after your baby died? My father-in-law gave me a daily read more
Strange Hong Kong First Names
Living in Hong Kong | July 5th 2008 by Elmer W. Cagape
A survey in China showed that over 3,500 babies will be named "Olympics". This is at least a consolation for them if they can't bear "Olympic babies" -- children delivered at 8:08 pm, on August 8, 2008, when the opening ceremonies begin.In Hong Kong, read more
Otro negocio lucrativo del NIC.NI
Blog de la Comunidad | July 4th 2008 by Asociación eNicaragua
En otra ocasión ya había escrito acerca del nic.ni, por qué el alto costo del dominio además de la verdadera historia del nic.ni que está completamente herrada en su sitio web y que confirma la wikipedia aunque no con muchos detalles, pero read more
Goleta, You're Not Alone
Back of the Cereal Box | July 1st 2008
Hey, City of Goleta, you’re not the only Goleta in the world. There’s also a genus of spiders that shares your name. And it’s a genus of jumping spiders, no less. JUMPING SPIDERS!Remember, everyone, when you hear the name “Goleta,” think of read more
Looking for hidden meanings
The Beacon | July 1st 2008 by Haley Hughes
Sound Symbolism. Ever heard of it? Me neither until I read an article in my online newsletter from RWA. The idea is that certain sounds as presented in language have meaning, and that the letters used to represent them have meaning. It's all very ac read more
Tragically hip
Ramblin' with Roger | July 1st 2008 by Roger Green
I was playing my one Tragically Hip album for Canada Day - Tragically Hip being a Canadian band - when it hit me: there seems to be a number of Americans who seem to have ascribed to the dominion to the north powers and abilities far beyond those of read more
The House of Kitty Ussher
The Engine Room | June 30th 2008 by James Clark
As regular readers of this blog will know, one of our preoccupations is names - company names, product names, project names and especially personal names.On that theme, this morning I was tickled to learn that the Labour MP for Burnley and Padiham is read more
Spellcheck
Two Lines On a Stick | June 29th 2008 by Two Lines On a Stick
Someone should install spellcheck in my mother in law’s brain. My husband, Jonathon? The one who has the unique spelling that we are forever correcting people about? His name is actually JonathAn. He said he used to spell it as Jonathan when he read more
Bittys, Bettys and Betsys
The Genealogue | June 29th 2008
About 400 women participated in The Gathering of Elizabeths this weekend. I gather my niece, whose name is spelled "Elisabeth," would not have been welcome.The northern Illinois community of Elizabeth tried Saturday to set a world record for the larg read more
Question of the Week
Ask Ryan | June 29th 2008 by Ryan Murphy
Wade, Huntsville, ALSubj: Name game Greetings Ryan, can you tell us what is the most common last name is baseball? First name too if you are really good. No problem, Wade. It took a little digging (and a whole lot of caffeine), but I discovered tha read more
It’s official: Change will happen to the Web
Modern Street | June 28th 2008 by Darrin W
It’s official, and the ICANN board has voted in favor for the opening up of a whole new slew of domain name extensions that could in theory, have a major impact on the World Wide Web in the coming future. The board also voted for the allowance read more
I NEED YOUR OPINION
Seven Seeds | June 28th 2008 by Kadi
Cherish and I need some help deciding on names for our new event planning business. I'm putting this poll up so that you can help us decide on the top three. Please choose the three that communicate our company's purpose, sound creative and would cat read more
Update: Itatí Cantoral expecting a daughter
The Celebrity Baby Blog | June 26th 2008
Update: Itatí's ex-husband Eduardo accidentally let it slip that the Mexican actress is expecting a baby girl. While Itatí is annoyed that he let the cat out of the bag -- as she was planning to sell the exclusive rights to a Mexican magazine-- Edu read more
Public Mail to Contact 1.2 for Outlook
New Freeware Files | June 26th 2008 by adi
Public Mail 2 Contact is an addon for Microsoft Outlook. It generates Outlook contacts from existing e-mails and verifies whether the e-mail-address does already exist as contact of Outlook. Adequate filters prevent Public Mail 2 Contact from creatin read more
I’m Going to the Moon!
Words from Justin M. Kolenc... | June 26th 2008 by Justin M. Kolenc
This morning I signed my entire family of four up for a trip to the Moon later this year! Isn’t that exciting? It will be myself, my wife, my daughter Payton, and my son Hunter—and 1.5 Million others, give or take a few thousand. The best read more
Unknown facts about Belgaum History
Belgaum blog with latest info, news and current happenings | June 26th 2008 by ukmad
This Story is taken from the http://kamalbasti.blogspot.com/I would ask each of you to visit the blog. The contents on the said are enormous and the amount of effort put in by Bramhanand Chipre to make that blog is commendable. How many of you knew t read more
Poll Results, Ghetto Names of the Week (6/25)
The Raging Server | June 26th 2008 by steven
It’s a little late in the game, but I realized that the last poll that I’ve posted was still going. I have to post a new one, and when I get done with the next post you’ll understand why I’m putting up the new one because th read more
Young Chinese Olympic hopefulls
OnTheVerge.co.za | June 26th 2008
Athletes as young as 7 years of age are training in China, in order to one day be able to compete in the Games. While most of the athletes are still way too young to compete in this years Beijing Olympics, they persistantly train with the hopes of on read more
Radical Changes coming to the Web?
Modern Street | June 24th 2008 by Darrin W
The Web as we all know it could be radically altered soon, by some proposals made by ICANN, the domain name regulatory board. According to proposals which are being discussed in Paris, and which the results will be made known after Thursday, we may a read more
What's in a Name
A Moon Brothers Film Blog | June 24th 2008 by Moon Brothers
Ever had to name a baby? That can be a pretty gruelling task... trying to come up with a name that pleases everybody.We've had to name babies. And we've also had to name characters for our screenplays. It's not always easy to find the right name. Esp read more
What's in a name?
A View From Middle England by Arden Forester | June 24th 2008 by Arden Forester
Over the past few months Barack Obama's name has been the subject of much talk. How is it pronounced is one question. Burr Ark - that's how some Americans say it. "We've got a brand new vessel, Mr. Noah! It's the latest thing in flood protection!" Th read more
How Many You's Are There
Way Khool Sites | June 24th 2008 by Kuanyin Moi
Today's Way Khool Site is: How Many Of MeAs you can see, there is only ONE of me in the U.S., so I'm an original! But you already knew that anyway, didn't you?HowManyOfMe.comThere are1or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A.How many have your name? read more
Name in light
f-luxe | June 23rd 2008 by f-luxe
People often get my name wrong. They tell me they get confused with people they have known before called Anne-Marie. They shorten me down to just Anne. Or think I should be an Anna. And no, you can't just call me Al, I am really not a fan of Paul Si read more
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