http://www.generatorland.com/blog Get Random Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:55:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a Generator Land first, we're releasing a "beta" version of a generator for semi-public consumption. By this, we mean it's only available via this blog. The generator in question is "The Summer Olympic Event Generator," which is about as current eventy as you can get, don't you think? We want ... http://www.generatorland.com/blog/an-olympic-sized-generator/ Celebrities must love their children to give them such laughable names. Because celebrities are smart and they know that after years of ridicule and titty twisters from classmates their children will grow up to be tough, independent, adults who would probably grow rich and powerful even without their guaranteed celebrity ... http://www.generatorland.com/blog/celebrities-their-babies-and-their-baby-names/ Since we last spoke, we've released two new generators into the wild. The Mob Name Generator and the Character Name Generator were both in reaction to user requests and search traffic. Nate in Marketing is a huge Sopranos fan and says the results sound genuine in an off-kilter way. We ... http://www.generatorland.com/blog/mob-guys-and-other-characters/ Speaking of streaming music, we love Deezer, especially the fact that you can embed songs from Deezer in blog posts. And now something from the National. Discover The National! a2a_linkname="Speaking of Streaming: Deezer is Cool";a2a_linkurl="http://www.generatorland.com/blog/speaking-of-streaming-deezer-is-cool/"; http://www.generatorland.com/blog/speaking-of-streaming-deezer-is-cool/ We have a very hard and fast policy about streaming music here in the Generator Land offices. The rule is that you must be streaming music and wearing headphones at all times. We don't care if you're listening to music, news, or bird calls--you'd just better be listening to something. ... http://www.generatorland.com/blog/streaming-music-in-the-office/ Today we released our newest generator, "The Bar Drink Generator." There was quite a bit of discussion about whether this should be a ridiculous or useful generator. Most of our generators are, indeed, fairly ridiculous after all. As it turns out there's a fair amount of usefulness in the Bar ... http://www.generatorland.com/blog/dont-forget-to-tip-your-bartender/ After much employee persuasion we decided to have Bring Your Dog to Work Thursdays. All sorts of cool, Valley start ups have "perks" like this and while we're neither cool nor in the Valley we figured we could improve employee satisfaction a bit by letting our people bring in their ... http://www.generatorland.com/blog/dog-day-afternoon/ By Mike R at Generatorland.com This has just a little to do with Generator Land, but we want to put it out there. We are adding large thumbnails (if that's not a paradox) to our generator description pages and our effort is being greatly helped by a Firefox extension developed by ... http://www.generatorland.com/blog/shout-out-to-fireshot-and-picnik/ Results of our "What should our next Generator be?" Poll Thanks to everyone who voted and now our legal team can get to work on figuring out if we can actually use the Ben and Jerry's name in a generator. Good luck team! a2a_linkname="Next Generator Poll Winner";a2a_linkurl="http://www.generatorland.com/blog/next-generator-poll-winner/"; http://www.generatorland.com/blog/next-generator-poll-winner/ By MikeR, Generatorland.com Marketing departments get a lot of grief. Often among the first to be laid off, they are the least understood and least respected department in your company (behind HR). They're typically at the mercy of sales and despite their best efforts have a difficult time getting credit ... http://www.generatorland.com/blog/five-reasons-why-marketing-people-tend-to-annoy-their-colleagues/