Arthur D. Hlavaty

Funny nicknames [The Poke]

That’s Doctor Marijuana Pepsi to you [Toofab]

Adventure in renaming

Thanx to Geek Feminism

UNC-Chapel Hill trustees to rename Saunders Hall "Carolina Hall." Saunders was a KKK leader.

Ernest Evans sues Hewlett-Packard for calling a penis-size-guessing device a Chubby Checker.

The case against online pseudonyms grows more and more baroque. firecat looks at a particularly bizarre example. I reiterate that I will not join Google+ until it stops demanding usernames it finds plausible.

When I was growing up, a popular form of Laughing at the Other was the idea that certain non-Anglo names were inherently laughable. The International Standard Funny Italian Name was Bacigalupi.