Re: What do you call your examples?

["Henry J. Wicko II" <henry -dot- wicko -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Here is a page where you can generate business names with the click of a
button (and by a small set of categories):
http://www.2robots.com/2003/06/18/random-business-name-generator/?cat=Technology+%2F+Software.
Some don't roll off the tongue that well or pass the eyes that well IMO, but
there are a few that seem acceptable.

A Google search has more of the above as well as random name generators as
well.  Even sci-fi names as well!


Henry




On 8/30/07, Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Ned Bedinger wrote:
> I tend to go with Acme
> > Backscratcher Mfg.  Feel free to use it :-)
>
> I have a friend who owns the domain name acme.com.  He gets a LOT of
> email from confused users of various product manuals who used acme.com
> as a general example URL.
>
> BTW example.com, example.net and example.org are reserved domain names
> specifically for use in documentation.  RFC2606.
>
> Me, I like humorous examples, but I've been yelled at by editors in the
> past for doing that.  (humor does not translate, etc).  I do try to use
> both male and female example names for people, and non-western names as
> well.
>
> I've seen a fair amount of open source documentation using the example
> company name Initech recently -- its kind of an in-joke, that was the
> soulless company in "Office Space."
>
> Laura
> not enough flair
>
>
>
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