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back in the day -- the early web days -- a site had to have a good name. a simple name, a name easily recognized, so it seemed. like the yellow pages, companies wanted names that surfers saw first. of course, if you could bookmark something -- or use a newsreader -- then who cares what the name is. and one could always search for the item on google if one had forgotten the name of the site. ...anyway, that's what i was thinking when i put the following list together: a list of companies featuring a single letter of the alphabet or a doubling of a single letter.

websites for single-letter domains from "a" to "p" and from "r" to "y" do not exist.

q.com, redirects to Qwest
x.com, redirects to PayPal
z.com, redirects to the Nisssan USA website (b/c the Nissan "Z" models?)


aa.com = American Airlines
cc.com = Clear Channel
ee.com = EE Times online, for electronic engineers and technical managers
ff.com = First Franklin, a lending company
gg.com = GG.com, online betting
h.com = Hecker Law Group, dealing with intellectual property
ii.com = Infinite Ink, "writing and publishing about
computing, mathematics, science, and philosophy"
mm.com = Minnesota Micronet, an ISP
oo.com = Sun Valley Station, weather conditions for just south of Alexandria, Kentucky
qq.com = QQ.com, a Chinese news/cultural site
rr.com = Road Runner, high-speed online service
ss.com = for sale for $100,000 by Software Solutions
tt.com = Tiroler Tageszeitung, "the Eagle sees more," a German newspaper
uu.com = GOV.com
ww.com = a webcam directory
zz.com = a personal site? has links to bagpipe practice mp3s, an adult site, and recordings of some lounge music

i've been rereading the Sherlock Holmes stories recently. i hadn't read them in at least 20 years. In Hound of the Baskerville, Holmes refers to another famous murder case, the "Anderson murders" in North Carolina. I'm a native, but had never heard of this -- i like local knowledge, so i assumed that i should have. I searched google with many permutations -- "anderson + murder"; "anderson + carolina + killed"; etc. -- but nothing came up.

However, i did find a list of women executed in the US from1632 to 1962.

Baby got back. Saartje Baartman was the name taken by a Khoisan woman upon her arrival in London in 1810. The women of the Khoisans, believed to be the original inhabitants of the southern tip of Africa, fascinated the Europeans of the time, due to the women's tendency toward steatopygia, "an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks." Saartje was put on display in sideshows, at which some viewers (you can be sure they were all white boys) would pay extra to touch her ass.

(the illustration seems a little sly. note the "sword" of the man on the left as well as the dog. what's he sniffing?)

Do you ever want to compare your life to Darwin's? AboutDarwin.com has a fairly specific timeline of the great man's life. This year, I lazily researched the NFL Draft. Around the same time in his life, Darwin was developing his "transmutation" theory: "a sort of self correcting feed-back loop, in which animals and plants remain unmodified until the environment changes. When changes took place the members of a species with traits that gave them a slight advantage in the new environment gained more reproductive success. Over eons of time this process resulted in one species transmutating into another."

...And I thought all along the Packers would take a QB. (sigh)