Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Billions and Billions of Names: Generated for You

"The Name Generator"

The site claims: "Our name generator can spit out over 463 billion different first and last name combinations."

"How It Works" gives you a 404 error message, which wasn't too promising.
("Not Found
"The requested URL /howItWorks.php was not found on this server.
"Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.")

The tags are a bit fun, and the generator works. Not, perhaps, humanity's greatest achievement: but I can think of worse ways to spend a couple of minutes.

With a little patience, and quite a lot of luck, this could be a resource for writers seeking character names.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Shanika Whitiker 8-)

Anonymous said...

But I use the http://www.namesdir.com/ to find names and http://tools4name.com/ to generate nickname :)

Brian H. Gill said...

Anonymous, and Anonymous,

Thanks for the comments!

And, the two links: I appreciate the tip!

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