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Things Unexpectedly Named After People · Notes

notes.rolandcrosby.com/posts/unexpectedly-eponymous/

• history, tag
• funny, tag
• trivia, tag
• names, tag
• culture, tag
• ·10 months ago

Antidepressants or Tolkien character?

antidepressantsortolkien.now.sh/

• antidepressants, tag
• funny, tag
• names, tag
• game, tag
• ·1 year ago

The Spell Checkers Agenda

kottke.org/20/10/the-spell-checkers-agenda

• technology, tag
• racism, tag
• names, tag
• language, tag
• culture, tag
• ·4 years ago

Hello, my name is Stéphanie

the-pastry-box-project.net/stephanie-walter/2018-february-12

But some of you call me St�phanie, St?phanie, Stêphanie or Stéphanie. This is a tale about naming, encoding and user experience in a globalized diverse world.

• names, tag
• unicode, tag
• encoding, tag
• internationalisation, tag
• ·6 years ago

Personal names around the world

w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?

• forms, tag
• names, tag
• languages, tag
• reference, tag
• best_practices, tag
• ·7 years ago

Common Names for Gatherings of Birds

auburnbirdbanding.org/gaggle.htm

• birds, tag
• english, tag
• language, tag
• funny, tag
• dictionary, tag
• names, tag
• flock, tag
• ·7 years ago

Random Thing Generator

randomthing.me/

Generates fake names, addresses and business names

• UX, tag
• random, tag
• names, tag
• ui, tag
• lorem_ipsum, tag
• ·10 years ago