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Entries from May 2010

Babies, teddy bears and flowers!

Posted: May 27th, 2010 by Steve | Filed under: advertising, pop culture, taglines| No Comments

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The systematic language of healthcare

Posted: May 25th, 2010 by admin | Filed under: intellectual property (IP), language| No Comments

Working on various healthcare projects lately got us thinking about the language used in healthcare patents:

Apparently, we are all becoming optimized healthcare reception systems.

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Wordlab’s awesome name generators

Posted: May 11th, 2010 by admin | Filed under: company names, product names| No Comments

Wordlab has a great collection of free name generators that can help you get started if you are trying to name a company, product or service yourself:

Wordlab’s Business Name Generator7,223,742 potential company, product or domain names to chose from.

Name Builder – Over 340,000 possible combinations — try it for a company name, rock band, album title, product name, book of poetry.

Restaurant / Bar Name Generator – Over 100,000 potential names for your restaurant, bar, pizzaria, taco stand, tavern, pub, cafe, bagel shop, etc.

Band Name Generator4193 band names direct from Wordlab’s personal collection.

Drug-O-Matic – Over 9.3 million potential drug names lurking within this little apothecary’s monster.

Character Name Generator – If you need to name any kind of character, human or otherwise, this is the mother lode. With 379,175,790 potential names, mostly well off the beaten track, you can populate an entire country with uniquely named characters.

Morpheme Machine – If mashing morphemes is your thing (attention Landor!), here are over 151,000 chunks of lingo chum to chew on.

The ACME Namemaker – And finally, when you don’t want to stand out from the crowd, here are over 26,000 ways to blend in quite nicely. I think this one must be the most popular with Igor’s competitors.

Happy naming!

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