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UPDATE: 2014-04-28T09:08Z - The info below is now out of date. The relevant voting round is over.

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I have noticed that voting for the site name is under way. On the left of my screen I can see a "Name Voting News" box, with important information.

Anyway, I thought it might be useful to have notes about each site name suggestion, all gathered in one place.

In my opinion, the thinking behind the name doesn't have to be immediately apparent. It's okay for it to need some explanation. (When I first heard of Slashdot, I didn't realize what it was a reference to.)

I've seeded this with my own thoughts. Feel free to add comments, and I will aim to edit this to incorporate them. Can you think of any good reasons for or against any of these?

• (1) absorbingnews.com - Just to be taken literally?
• (2) achetee.com - a phonetic writing of HT? Why?
• (3) alphadot.com - Has "dot" at the end, like Slashdot.
• (4) altdiscuss.com - "alt" is a usenet prefix, and implies alternative discussions to those you'd get in the mainstream
• (5) apt-get-news.com - A reference to Advanced_Packaging_Tool Possibly suggests a favouring of Debian-based Linux OSs, as opposed to non-Debian Linux OSs, or non-Linux OSs?
• (6) baconnews.com - Love of bacon seems to be a bit of a common theme in the USA, and has also hit Soylent - especially the IRC channel. Might put off over-sensitive adherents of certain religions.
• (7) bangdot.org - Punctuation character (written as a word), followed by "dot", like Slashdot. "Bang" means "exclamation mark"
• (8) bayesianews.com - Refers to Bayesian machine learning? Evokes the way news is handled here? And the way the best comments filter to the top?
• (9) beardrhetoric.com - Nerds are more likely than average to have beards? (Not these days)
• (10) boardkey.com - "keyboard" with the words switched around
• (11) chattrnews.com - chattr is a command line tool, "change attributes". It is also the word "chatter" with the final vowel dropped like Tumblr and Flickr
• (12) crosslog.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (13) dailybacon.net - Love of bacon seems to be a bit of a common theme in the USA, and has also hit Soylent - especially the IRC channel. Might put off over-sensitive adherents of certain religions. Daily bread is a common phrase (example). Also a lot of newspapers are called Daily [something].
• (14) deltachroma.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (15) devnull.com - A reference to the null device
• (16) dotbang.org - 2 punctuation characters (written as words), one of which is "dot", like Slashdot. "Bang" means "exclamation mark"
• (17) dotsalt.org - Reference to this kind of salt? Includes "dot", like Slashdot.
• (18) dupenews.com - A common theme on Slasdot was whinging about duplicated stories. Also, news-for-nerds sites rarely provide original news. We "dupe" other sites' stories, and discuss them.
• (19) eigentime.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (20) epsilonnexus.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (21) fetanews.com - "Feta" is an abbreviation of "fuck beta"? "Beta" refers to the new Slashdot UI. Feta is also a cheese.
• (22) firingsquid.com - A play on "firing squad". Why? Do we use Squid?
• (23) forkbeta.com - A play on "fuck beta"? You can "fork" software, but perhaps we've forked the Slashdot community? "Beta" refers to the new Slashdot UI.
• (24) forkdot.org - You can "fork" software, but perhaps we've forked the Slashdot community? Ends with "dot", like Slashdot.
• (25) freedefy.com
• (26) freedivide.com
• (27) fuckbeta.com - "Beta" refers to the new Slashdot UI.
• (28) futurians.com
• (29) gammavortex.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (30) geekcard.com - A common theme among geeks. Example
• (31) gitgot.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (32) grepcutnews.com
• (33) grepnews.com - A reference to Grep#Usage_as_a_verb
• (34) hashsalt.org - Reference to this kind of salt, and hashing?
• (35) hecknews.com
• (36) ionews.com Reference to I/O
• (37) iorevolution.net Reference to I/O
• (38) iotanexus.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (39) itarium.com
• (40) legitworksite.com - "Legit" is an abbrevation of legitimate. This is tongue-in-cheek humour.
• (41) li694-22.com - Comes from the internal name of the Linode server we were running on (li694-22.members.linode.com).
• (42) linevertex.com - A slash is a line. A point (dot) is a vertex. So this is probably a reference to Slashdot.
• (43) lostdash.com - Anagram of Slashdot
• (44) lowlevelnews.com
• (45) ls-lnews.com
• (46) makemesmart.com - "Make me smart". Smart = clever. This is tongue-in-cheek humour.
• (47) minddivide.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (48) nerdcard.net - A play on "geek card", which is common theme among geeks (Example).
• (49) nerdcraft.com - a reference to the game Mine Craft? Or to the "Netcraft confirms" meme (mentioned here)? Or simply the craft of being a nerd, similar to other words suffixed with "craft" like witchcraft.
• (50) nerddiscourse.com - Just to be taken literally?
• (51) nerdgloss.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (52) nerdnewsnet.com - "Nerd news", just to be taken literally. "Net" can be used as a suffix.
• (53) nerdpost.com
• (54) newschattr.com - chattr is a command line tool, "change attributes". It is also the word "chatter" with the final vowel dropped like Tumblr and Flickr
• (55) newsconfig.com
• (56) newsdotorg.org
• (57) newsgrep.com
• (58) newsignal.com
• (59) newsisyou.com - possibly inspired by the Soviet Russia meme?
• (60) newslash.org - A play on "new Slash" and "news lash"?
• (61) newsping.com
• (62) newstat.com
• (63) newuucp.com
• (64) nntpping.com
• (65) noncorpnews.com
• (66) noncorporate.com
• (67) nunexus.com
• (68) omnidiscuss.com
• (69) pipebeard.com
• (70) port119.net - 119 is the TCP/IP port reserved for NNTP (Usenet)
• (71) primedelta.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (72) pulsedot.net - Has "dot" at the end, like Slashdot.
• (73) reslashed.com
• (74) salientnews.net - Sounds similar to "Soylent News", but removes the "Soylent" implications. "Salient" means "Most noticeable or important"
• (75) salientnoise.com - Sounds similar to "Soylent News", but removes the "Soylent" implications. "Salient" means "Most noticeable or important"
• (76) saltdot.org - Reference to this kind of salt. Has "dot" at the end, like Slashdot.
• (77) salthash.com - Reference to this kind of salt, and hashing?
• (78) shpxurnq.com - ?
• (79) sigmanexus.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (80) sigmavortex.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (81) silentmews.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (82) soylentnews.com - The current name. Coincidentally, a genuine nutritional product called "Soylent" has just been released. In theory, trademarks shouldn't be a problem.
• (83) squintfeed.com - Two words that roll off the tongue nicely?
• (84) stealthnews.com
• (85) sudonews.com - "sudo is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user (normally the superuser, or root)"
• (86) techmatter.com
• (87) thegarlic.com - Reference to theonion.com
• (88) uuengeek.com - "Uuencoding is a form of binary-to-text encoding"
• (89) yottatalk.com - "yotta" is the SI prefix for 10^24
• (90) yottatech.com - "yotta" is the SI prefix for 10^24

[edited at 2014-04-24T13:52Z]

"Which?" is the magazine of the UK's main consumer group. It has over 1 million subscribers. (It is a member of Consumers International, in case you want to find a comparable organization in your own country to get a better idea of what I mean.)

The April 2014 issue (I'm talking dead tree here) has an article that takes a strong line against tower PCs, and is very in favour of "all in one" PCs.

To a geek like me, "all in one" PCs are very rarely the right tool for the job.

Ever come across something you think is worthy of submission to SN, but don't have time to research it and write it up into a nice summary? All you have is a news story + its URL and title + a few random thoughts?

I call these proto-submissions, and I'm thinking of using this journal entry to keep track of some. Other people are welcome to add theirs too - one per thread.

In each case, if anyone is willing to actually take the story and make it into a proper submission, then just reply and go for it!

FAO any non-UK users who happen to notice this journal entry, please could you comment your location and whether you can access this radio interview?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vdx7m

I'm just considering submitting a story about it.

Even better, if anyone has more time than me and is willing to submit the story themselves, just comment below and go for it!

The news article based on the interview is http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26014584