A rose is a rose is an iPod

Unfortunately, there isn't all that much meat here, but there are few interesting blurbs on how tech-based products got their names.

Personally, I'm a total geek when it comes to this stuff, so if you throw in my professional inclinations, I'm ready-made to dive into a novel's worth of information about every one of the products listed here. But this is a simplified take on things ("Birds tweet, so hey...there's a name") that doesn't really delve far enough into the details to be truly satisfying.

On the plus side, nearly all of the products in the list have cool enough names to warrant further discussion. Except for Windows 7. It stands apart only because Microsoft fumbled so badly that they had to go back to their bland roots and remove any remnants of Vista from our memory. As Microsoft's Mike Nash said, "Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore 'Windows 7' just makes sense."

Bloody freakin' brilliant.