Spurl, bring me a piece of ham, would you?

I'm off to another class this morning, so I must keep this under 30,000 words. But damn it if there isn't yet another trend on the web that's got me all cheezed off. Lately there's a whole new batch of sites and services with insufferably stupid names. Consider:

Flickr
Splunk
OpenGrok
Spurl
Furl
Digg
Groovy
Django
Ubuntu
TiddlyWiki
Frappr

These are just a few of them. The bummer thing is that some of them I find incredibly useful. Flickr is an absolutely ingenious idea and a endless source of amazement. OpenGrok has saved me untold hours at my job and has become an indispensable part of my everyday toolset. Digg is a great alternative to sites like Metafilter and Slashdot, but without all the clutter and noise. Ubuntu is easily the most user-friendly Linux distribution out there (and has equally repulsive names for its releases: Breezy Badger & Hoary Hedgehog!), TiddlyWikis seem very useful to me, but I haven't quite figured out a way to fit them into my own personal routine.

But my god... those stupid fucking names! Furl? Can you imagine the brainstorming meeting that took place in some venture capitalist's office, with a bunch of doofuses in knit plaid shirts tossing out one-and-a-half-syllable words like "furl" for eight hours at a stretch? Aye.

GUI Blunder Of The Week:

Spam Subject Line Of The Week:
"Pregnant meat pockets filled with sticky loads"

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