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First let me tell you that I spelled Hippopotamus correctly on the first try. And I think that’s nice.

So there’s this web browser that everyone in the world uses called Firefox. And it’s a pretty good browser, there are lots of cool plug-ins, like the Greasemonkey script that adds “in bed” to the end of the main cnn.com headline. And by the way, ironicsans.com is one of my all-time favorite blogs to read, I’d recommend that it’s your favorite blog to read from now on, too. Anyhow, Firefox is pretty decent.

Enter Fire Eagle, a new Yahoo! enterprise that’s being run by Tom Coates, who incedentally once linked to a flickr photo of mine. It’s some sort of secure location sharing type site and sounds cool.

My gripe is this, why is it called Fire Eagle? Maybe that’s the new trend in developing applications and websites, much as flickr started the whole “get rid of an e if it’s followed by an r” thing (and other sites have followed such as tumblr.com). I should just start registering websites that have the word “fire” and an animal afterwards.

• fireant.com (probably taken)
• firehawk.com (my “replica” Fire Eagle site - maybe I can sell the domain to Google, Yahoo’s competitor)
• firemarmot.com (my Big Lebowski fan site)
• fireseal.com (also already taken, most likely)
• fireteledu.com (the teledu, of course, is a stink badger from the island of Java - and also the name of my ski team that raises money to fight MS)
• firefish.com (the first fully-aquatic web browser, perhaps?)

There are plenty of great names out there ready to be discovered, with plenty of meaning and wit. Fire Eagle probably isn’t one of them. I’d think that Yahoo could pay some smart people to develop some better names. I volunteer for this.

*Fire Hippopotamus ©2008 Josh Mishell - Don’t you go on stealing my name, now, developers.