OT: The passing of Pluto

[Phil Davis]

Have you heard about the town of half.com, Oregon? I think it has now reverted 
back to its original name, Halfway OR. Their city fathers made a deal 
(time-limited, I believe) with half.com and got the company to locate there.

Phil Davis


Mark Wieder wrote:
> Dar-
> 
> Thursday, August 24, 2006, 11:14:53 AM, you wrote:
> 
>> Now, that bugged this boy.  I wanted to be excited about astronauts
>> and rockets and such, but somehow that turned it into a PR game.
> 
> I'm still not used to the renaming of the Giants' ballpark. I wonder
> how long it will be before we get "AT&T Pluto" or "Halliburton Ceres".
> 
>> I wonder if some mathematicians or word lovers were bugged when IBM
>> changed the name of sexadecimal to hexadecimal.  DEC used octal,  
>> perhaps to avoid an offensive chimeric word with magic spell  
>> connotations, being based in Massachusetts and all that.
> 
> ROTFL. Fortunately the only vestiges of octal left seem to be left
> over in things like chmod.
> 
>> Sometime late last century I vaguely noticed that there weren't any
>> Datsuns around.
> 
> ...and there's a town in Japan that got renamed Toyota.
>