Playing wee?

Moowee


Moowee is a service that lets you watch internet movies on TV. Why would they name it such? It's an obvious play on "movie", using a w sound instead of v, but changing the spelling quite a bit. Also, it lets you play movies on your Wii (!) which doesn't make the name totally useless.

As the Name Awards blog says... this name is cow piss!

Watch your typeface...

Take a look at the magazine cover below:


Its full title is CLM "College Lifestyle Magazine", but running the letters together like that only serves to make the middle look like a certain vowel.


To take this even further, look what the title of their photo section is called:


CLM shots.

Given the target demographic, do you really think that this is purely coincidental?

x² + 2xy + y² = ?

[x+1]


This name isn't *bad* per se, it's just one of the stranger names out there. Certainly more creative than e-this and i-that and -r suffixing.

No Sxoop for you!

Sxoop

Just looking at the name is headache-inducing. How can you possibly pronounce a name starting with that consonant cluster (Sx-) ?

I guess you can take the X as silent, and pronounce it as "soup" or "zoop."

Are their products bottom-grade?

Hynix



Hynix, is this some weird variation on Unix? No, it's a semiconductor company.

You gotta wonder if the quality lives up to (or should I say, down to?) their name.