Domain Naming Troubles - I have spent the last week and a half trying to come up with a clever dot com for my web design company. I am looking for suggestions on keywords that I can use to form a good domain name. [more inside]
posted on Jun 5, 2008 - 16 answers

Naming Filter: Hive mind, please help us name our open source OS X media center application! [more inside]
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - 14 answers

Is there a word for this thing that I do with the names of things? And would you find it annoying? [more inside]
posted on May 31, 2008 - 36 answers

What's my name, sucka? For roller derby, that is. [more inside]
posted on May 29, 2008 - 55 answers

What influences trends in baby names? And why have popular girls names changed more over the past 20+ years than boys names? [more inside]
posted on May 11, 2008 - 65 answers

NameMyStore Filter: Art/party/event space for kids needs a name: details inside... [more inside]
posted on Apr 14, 2008 - 3 answers

I am involved in branding a "company" that has a casino, theater and hotel as part of its assets. Part of the brand development is naming. The company is located in Northern New Mexico (Espanola – which, I've been informed is a leading provide of Black tar heroin!). Anyway, I'm looking for recommendations for reference books or even novels that focus on that area/culture and might spark some inspiration for names. The "company" is actually a Native American tribe or Pubelo that is known for its Black pottery.
posted on Mar 14, 2008 - 7 answers

What do you call your significant other's family members? [more inside]
posted on Feb 18, 2008 - 37 answers

Do you know a derogatory nickname for a town or city? [more inside]
posted on Dec 17, 2007 - 198 answers

Why does my Mac appear to have other people's computer names at the command line? What's up here? [more inside]
posted on Nov 12, 2007 - 8 answers

can you suggest a scottish-ish poem for my gorgie daughter's naming ceremony? [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2007 - 4 answers

Please help me name a new real estate company that I am opening (in the next few weeks) in Southen California. The company sells mostly apartment buildings / multi-units as invesments. [more inside]
posted on Aug 31, 2007 - 14 answers

Shamelessly begging for your creative title ideas. I'm starting a new personal blog and have no clue what to call it. [more inside]
posted on Aug 31, 2007 - 33 answers

Name my radio show, which focuses on electronic music, centered around genres like: idm/braindance or whatever we call it these days, dub, trip-hop, chip music (as in... gameboy's and C64's), aleatoric, grime, dubstep, minimal, electrofunk, deep house and so forth. I would say the primary theme of the show is music that is interesting not only for doing something creative, but for doing it with newly available technology (for it's time). I also have a bias towards music that is rooted in Jazz or other improvisational traditions. Aside from what is decidely artsy-music, there is also a smattering dancable music and mashups deemed clever enough. There is no dance music of the foor-to-the-floor variety though, and it is not primarily a dance show. [more inside]
posted on Jul 26, 2007 - 26 answers

I need some help naming the cookbook that my wife and I are putting together to help defray the costs of adopting our second son. [more inside]
posted on Jul 19, 2007 - 12 answers

O wise AskMe, please help us name our art marketing business? [more inside]
posted on Jul 13, 2007 - 20 answers

I'm working on a portfolio site that will collect my work in a particular realm and serve as the front for that side of my career. I had planned to use a domain I've owned and marginally used for several years. It struck me that I should check on whether there are other companies with a similar name... [more inside]
posted on May 15, 2007 - 3 answers

We're naming our new daughter this weekend, in front of family, friends, and coworkers. Any suggestions of lyrics/poetry/prose that would be appropriately inspirational and awesome? Something with the message: "Welcome to the world, now go kick some ass!" (in a compassionate, empowering sense, not an Ultimate Fighter sense, unless that's what she wants to be when she grows up...) [more inside]
posted on Apr 30, 2007 - 14 answers

Do parents have to give a kid a name immediately when it is born? [more inside]
posted on Apr 4, 2007 - 33 answers

I’ve seen some great suggestions come out of AskMe in the past and really need some creative help to break my naming block. I have been building a new online community service for groups. Our service specializes in helping groups collaborate and share knowledge effectively within their community. The obvious big issue (besides getting us to agree on the name) is acquiring the URL. We are not opposed to buying the URL, but all attempts to date have required obscene amounts of money A few names that we like, but cannot agree upon: (I own the URL’s): GroupSwim , Brighthive, GroopScoop As you can see, I’m really trying to incorporate group or the idea of community into the name. Any help or suggestions would be huge! Even a vote on the names above would be a big help. Thanks…
posted on Jan 29, 2007 - 16 answers

Help me name my comic, please! [more inside]
posted on Jan 3, 2007 - 53 answers

My winamp (v2.95) has just started to do something strange; it's creating id3 tags on it's own! [more inside]
posted on Dec 27, 2006 - 3 answers

Here's a NameFilter for you: I've just started a new podcast. It's a chat show, with a focus on intelligent humor. We're trying to give it a name. Any ideas? [more inside]
posted on Dec 8, 2006 - 27 answers

Help name a new Graphic Design studio! [more inside]
posted on Nov 20, 2006 - 32 answers

Help me come up with creative team names involving rock music and computer terms. [more inside]
posted on Oct 11, 2006 - 33 answers

I'm the IT guy at my factory, I just got my higher ups to agree to let me host a LAN party in our large breakroom. I need to think of a witty name for it. I hate to call it XXXXXX Company LAN Party. [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2006 - 18 answers

What is a typical Armenian-American name for a character in my story? Where can I look for other potential character names? [more inside]
posted on Sep 10, 2006 - 30 answers

What's the story behind Indian (as in the country) last names that consist of a single letter? [more inside]
posted on Aug 18, 2006 - 13 answers

Help name a new burger restaurant in Georgia! [more inside]
posted on Jul 14, 2006 - 61 answers

Help Me Name a Development Team in My IS Department [more inside]
posted on Jun 28, 2006 - 25 answers

I have lots of educational content that I need to organize in a systematic way. What is your most helpful naming convention for files and folders? [more inside]
posted on Jun 6, 2006 - 5 answers

Help! I need a name for my new store. [more inside]
posted on Apr 14, 2006 - 48 answers

I'm gonna do it! But I need a name. Time and again AskMe has proved itself to be quite talented at this request. [more inside]
posted on Feb 16, 2006 - 59 answers

Why is Quiznos Sub the official name of the sandwich shop and not Quizno's Subs? [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2006 - 36 answers

Help me name a new surgical table. [more inside]
posted on Jan 16, 2006 - 67 answers

Name my store. [more inside]
posted on Jan 16, 2006 - 44 answers

Anyone remember a great interactive "naming" site, run in flash I think, where you could see how popular or not a name was over a period of time (even by country I think)? I have searched, I promise - but I just can't find it!
posted on Dec 8, 2005 - 9 answers

Where can I find an extensive list of 'labeled generations'? (i.e. 'X', 'Y', 'The Greatest', 'Baby Boomers', etc.) [more inside]
posted on Dec 6, 2005 - 8 answers

"Siddhartha Gautama" or "Gautama Siddhartha"? [more inside]
posted on Nov 30, 2005 - 8 answers

Name our kittens! We have just brought home two entirely black boy kittens from the shelter and they need names. [more inside]
posted on Oct 19, 2005 - 100 answers

Help me name an urban modelling application. [more inside]
posted on Jul 17, 2005 - 25 answers

Help me brainstorm a catchy name for a recurring open house at a GLBT-oriented counseling center. [more inside]
posted on Jul 7, 2005 - 14 answers

I have a large collection of bootlegs I'd like to rip to my computer, but I don't want to manually rename all the files. [more inside]
posted on Jun 3, 2005 - 2 answers

I'm looking for some naming help - to try to turn an individual's name into a collective. There are some obvious ones - "Steptoe & Son" "Will Vinton Studios" "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" as well as the typical "and associates" or "and partners" or "and Co." [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2005 - 23 answers

FishFilter? Why do some refrigerated trucks display the word "FISH" in big red letters? Used to see it a lot in Texas. Have never seen it in California. Big ol' mystery. Is it an acronym? A bad-smell warning? WTF???
posted on Feb 4, 2005 - 6 answers

Dear AskAutomation&BatchFilter, I have 250 png files in a folder (named like this: cat_80.png, dog_80.png, bird_80.png, etc.). I want to put each png in a folder (1 png per folder, and the folders don't exist yet) that is named based on the png (cat_80.png goes in a folder named cat, dog_80.png goes in a folder named dog). Does anyone know of a free tool (WinXP) or method of doing this? I'd prefer a WYSIWIG or menu-based tool, rather than a pointer to a scripting language, unless it's really easy and idiotproof...
posted on Jan 20, 2005 - 5 answers

Inspired by this thread, in which someone confessed to using the same pet name for her dog and boyfriend, I simply must know: What sick-making nicknames do y'all call your spouses, partners and kids?
posted on Jan 8, 2005 - 67 answers

Generational filter: I am trying to apply an age/birth year range to the following generations: Boomers, GenX, GenY, Nexter. I find conflicting information when I google. [mi]
posted on Jan 7, 2005 - 45 answers

Concerning a large batch of mp3s and their id3 tags: I have about 5 GB of music that I downloaded from Emusic about a year ago. Due to an exceedingly stupid maneuver on my part, I accidentally stripped all the id3 tags from the files, which ended up physically renamed to something like "Untitled Album - Untitled Track 1," etc. -- so I now have about 500 songs like this.

They're organized in folders by artist and album name, so that much information I have -- I'm now in search of a utility that will allow me to get the appropriate information from CDDB or something, and then batch rename the files so I don't have to manually, and painstakingly, do so 500 times. I have both Windows and OS X, so platform's not much of an issue. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
posted on Dec 20, 2004 - 18 answers

Why is a "cover song" called a "cover" song?
posted on Nov 10, 2004 - 10 answers