By Craig Stedman
Wacky Names Editor, Taquitos.net

Should make snacks (but doesn't)

Crunchy Technologies — "a technology services and e-business consulting firm"

Colorful animals and other animate objects

Ants.com Inc. — "developer of technology that keeps address books up to date"

Automatic Duck Inc. — a vendor "targeting the nonlinear editing and effects industry"

BlackHog Inc. — maker of "the first collaborative direct materials procurement app"

Blue Squirrel Inc. — software that lets users "be more productive with information"

Chatfish — "the new leader in powering the richest interactive experiences"

GigaAnt — "external and customized antennas for short-range wireless devices"

MonkeyBoy Technologies LLC — an ASP "of carrier-class Internet travel services"

New Pig Corp. — "the leader in the industrial maintenance industry"

Orang-Otang Computers Inc. — "the wearable computing company"

Pink Elephant — "one of North America's leading IT education providers"

Purple Mutt Enterprises Inc. — makes "an end-to-end contact management solution"

Red Gorilla — "the application syndication company"

SixtyFootSpider — "an interactive communications company"

Turbo Squid Inc. — "the online 3D content vendor"

Even more Kodachrome moments

Blue Martini Software — "a provider of e-CRM applications"

Blue Pumpkin Software — a maker of "multi-channel workforce management software"

Green Pasture Software — makes software that "manages controlled documents"

PurpleYogi Inc. — a software vendor "bringing awareness to information networks"

RedSalsa — "a healthcare technology consulting and solutions provider"

White Pajama — "a provider of customer contact solutions"

New economy buffoonery

BabyPressConference.com — "the only live, full-motion video online maternity service"

BigFatWow Inc. — "provides free high-speed Internet access in public areas"

C Me Run Corp. — Internet company "offering consumer-focused application services"

Cybermoola Inc. — "a pioneer in cash-based payment for shopping on the Internet"

Digital Chainsaw — "a Florida-based Web hosting and systems integration company"

eCom eCom.com Inc. — makes "compression and Geo Symbolic Encoding technology"

eWinWin — "a B2B service that lowers costs through demand aggregation"

FreshBreathRUs.com — Web site that has "declared war" on chronic bad breath

Gazoontite.com — an online retailer of asthma and allergy relief products

GooMoo! Inc. — a maker of "multimedia Internet application technology"

Hitsgalore.com Inc. — "a rapidly growing B2B Internet company"

InsuranceNoodle.com — a "complete online insurance solution for small businesses"

Noosh Inc. — B2B service for "the enterprise communications supply chain"

Obongo Inc. — "creators of the i-personalization platform"

thatbank — "a global provider of e-commerce solutions"

wwWhoosh Inc. — "an end-to-end Internet acceleration software company"

Certifiable headscratchers

Allmystuff Inc. — "the leading provider of product ownership services"

Alottafun! Inc. — owns "a B2B hub Web site for manufacturers and retailers"

Anserity Inc. — "a leader in natural-language search and navigation technology"

ASP*n LLC — "an enablement and incubation firm" focused on the ASP market

Covansys — new corporate name derived from "co," "advance" and "system"

Gobosh Inc. — an acronym for Go Big or Stay Home, which "expresses our philosophy"

!hey software inc. — "a leading provider of contact center and voice technologies"

Oingo Inc. — "the leader in meaning-based technology"

Surgency Inc. — "reflecting the e-business dynamics of change, speed and urgency"

Trisiras — the name shows the company is "reliable, secure and customer-focused"

Venetica Corp. — new name taken "from Venetic, the ancient language of Venice"

WowRing Inc. — "a leading voice-over-IP service provider"

YadaYada Inc. — "the first integrated wireless Internet service provider"

YottaYotta — "the yottabyte netstorage company"

Zaiq Technologies Inc. — a new name "that's a variation of the word 'mosaic' "

0-In Design Automation Inc. — chip design tools "that zero in on functional bugs"

ZixIt Inc. — a maker of security and privacy tools for Internet users

Zzyzx Peripherals Inc. — a maker of "innovative disk and tape storage solutions"

Less than appetizing corporate names

Delirium Corp. — "a leading digital professional services firm"

Dirty Water Integrated — "a branding services and marketing firm"

Droplet Inc. — "an Internet application and content enabler" and Delirium partner

Kablooe Design — "an innovative full-service product design and development firm"

Slob-Trot Software — it's Finnish, so probably not really funny but what the heck

ThingWorld — "supercharges interactive content for entertainment and sports sites"

Watchout! Inc. — "a business facilitator"