User:AaronSw/Confusingly-similar names


 * Mary Matalin, republican strategist
 * Marlee Matlin, actress
 * Mary Magdalene


 * Ken MacLeod, sci-fi author
 * Ken MacLeod, programmer
 * Kembrew McLeod, academic


 * Robert Greenwald, documentary filmaker
 * Robert Greenblatt, television producer
 * David Greenwalt, Buffy writer


 * Lili Taylor, Six Feet Under actress
 * Lily Tomlin, The West Wing actress


 * Ward Christensen, BBS
 * Ward Cunningham, Wiki


 * Bob Cialdini, persuasion psychologist
 * Bernie Carducci, shyness psychologist

Tough journalists (all white women):


 * Sarah McClendon
 * Helen Thomas
 * Amy Goodman

Daughters of politicians named Alexandra making documentaries about the Democratic primary in 2004:


 * Alexandra Kerry
 * Alexandra Pelosi
 * Alexandra Tanner

Red-headed female leads:


 * Willow, BtVS
 * Claire, ''Six Feet Under
 * Angela, My So-Called Life
 * Reggie, Dead Like Me
 * Nip/Tuck daughter?

Similar-sounding words:


 * decent
 * descent
 * dissent
 * docent


 * The Sea Inside
 * Beyond the Sea
 * The Life Aquatic

(all released week of December 24)

Lisp fans, web startup millionaires, writers, art fans, Cambridge residents, PG initials:


 * Philip Greenspun
 * Paul Graham

Early sociologists:


 * William Foote Whyte
 * William H. Whyte

Acronym games

 * David Chaum
 * digital cash
 * DigiCash
 * Dining cryptographers protocol

Borrowed names

 * Nobel Prize in Economics
 * Stanford Research Institute
 * Harvard Book Store
 * Princeton Center for Risk Analysis (sp?)
 * Princeton Review