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On July 30, 1956, the President approved a joint resolution of Congress declaring In God We Trust the national motto of the United States. The words had been used on some American coins before that date but not on all currency, and not without objection. According to a Wikipedia article, Theodore Roosevelt strongly disapproved of the [...]

Read/WriteWeb has nominated ten of the worst web application names, including Fairtilizer, Profilactic, Gravee, Licketyship, Oyogi, Layoffspace, iStalkr, Agester, Hooka, and Qoop.

NewTeeVee (which didn’t make that list) has its own list of the top ten abominations of web video lingo.

Here’s an interesting article on BobMarley.com discussing the adaptation of the classic reggae anthem “One Love” as the tourism theme for Jamaica.

“One Love,” which adapts several lines from Curtis Mayfield’s “People Get Ready,” was originally recorded in 1965 by Bob alongside fellow Wailers Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh and was produced by Coxsone Dodd for his [...]

NO USE FOR A NAME are a four-piece punk rock band from San Jose, CA, and have been the torchbearers of the skate-punk scene since Tony Sly and Rory Koff started the band in 1987. Anyway, they’ve got a greatest hits album coming out on the Fat Wreck Chords label in a couple of weeks, appropriately titled [...]

Wordlab got some good press the other day, in the Lifestyle section of the Hartford Courant . Here’s an excerpt that talks about the excellent ideas for names of bars and clubs generated by some of the creative minds that lurk in the Wordlab Forums .

Some club owners look for name advice online. The website http://www.wordlab.com offers a forum for [...]

It’s hard to conceive of a better name for this product than Fertell. All it needs is a tagline pregnant with meaning.

“The link between brands and trust is strong,” says Charles Green, co-author of The Trusted Advisor , in the first Carnival of Trust at his blog, Trust Matters . There, Charlie points us to a recent post by Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who writes this about what brand means :

The saying goes, “a brand is a promise.” On a personal level, I’ve [...]

There’s a fundamental change occurring in the world of technology . Code-named Milan, a new computer has surfaced at Microsoft. Surface.

“Pretty exciting, eh?” Gates said with a sly smile, when he put his hand down on what looked initially like a low, black coffee table: At the touch of his hand, the hard, plastic tabletop suddenly dissolved into what [...]

Where does the name Milorganite come from? A contest to name a new organic fertilizer was advertised in the National Fertilizer Magazine in 1925. First prize was awarded to McIver and Son of Charleston, South Carolina for their entry ” Milorganite,” derived from MILwaukee ORGAnic NITrogEn. ” Why Milwaukee? ” you ask. For a list of other company name etymologies , [...]