US babies geting corporate names: “Children have been named after big brands as diverse as beauty company L’Oreal, car firm Chevrolet and designer clothes company Armani.

There are even two little boys, one in Michigan and one in Texas, called ESPN after the sports channel.

Psychology professor Cleveland Evans discovered the trend after surveying US social security records for 2000.” —BBC

Start reading. Now. Or. Whatever. “All I know is that whenever I read a column or story that’s been broken up by subheads, especially a syndicated story that appeared somewhere else first without any subheads, my inner reader feels violated.” —City Pages

100 celebrated artists choose their favorite musicians and design album covers. Thanks to Cory for pointing me to this fascinating site. Here is a taste, by Gary Burden:

There are some names even anyone who is not a graphic arts aficionado would recognize here. Ralph Steadman does the Stones, Kurt Vonnegut does Phish, and Graham Nash does Crosby-Nash.

Follow Me Here is four today… Thank you for all your affirmation over the past four years. I hope you will be pleased to be able to look forward to more of the same. (It is me who has to say to you, “Many happy returns…”). What would you like to see more of? less of? as FmH moves forward.