You know, on any visa application that you make to the Middle East, they want to know what your father's name is so that, you know, there's a million Mohammeds.
If the only movies you've seen this year are those five dour flicks nominated for best picture, you should know that these viewers have a name: teenagers.
"The only piece of information you see is the information you already know - that might be a Facebook name, a Twitter id or e-mail address, " says Jonathan Grubin, head of Send Social.
You start by seeding it with the name of a topic, several article links that you know are on topic, and links to profiles of people that you know focus on that topic.
If you've got joint credit cards, you need to contact those lenders and let them know that you're divorcing, and you want to maybe transfer that into your individual name.
If you are searching for a local restaurant that happens to be named Taj Mahal, you know enough to put the name of the town in quotes beside it.
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Have I convinced you that Ratti is a name you need to know in 2011?
Have I convinced you that Palantir is a name you need to know in 2011?
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Do you agree with me that FiveFingers is a name to know in 2011?
And that really was a grassroots approach by that blog to sort of, you know, getting the name, hearing it, and to sort of going everywhere with it and saying, we have to write in, we have to sort of demand that they change the name of that show.
While the Senate, the House and the President are letting us hurtle to the fiscal cliff and we are held in suspense as to what the tax law will be, she is introducing legislation to change the name of a type of IRA. You know how the IRAs that allow you to accumulate income that is never taxed are called Roth IRAs.
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There's an upside to all this: As you know, the name New York City is Dutch for "No Central Air, " and that makes window air conditioners the great leveler.
Maybe you go as far as changing the name of the song before you put it on your iPod so your nosy coworker will never know that I Will Eat Your Soul is really All Out of Love by Air Supply.
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