Answer: No. And I’m not a Libyan agent either (see below).
So why am I even bothering with this absurdity?
Because a story Dan Richman of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is giving currency to a backstabbing little dagger coming from one Brian Marcus, Director of Internet Monitoring for the Anti-Defamation League.

Mr. Marcus is either ignorant [...]

Names@Work is honored to host this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists, a travelling collection of the best blog posts about business and the world. Great stuff.

Soonr or latr, a new fad in names was bound to pop up. Remember the naming memes of yester-hour? You know, these (Igor calls them “morphemes”):

Acquient, Agilent, Alliant, Aquent, Aspirient, Aviant, Axent, Axient, Bizient, Candescent, Cendant, Cerent, Chordiant, Clarent, Comergent, Conexant, Consilient, Cotelligent, Equant, Ixtant, Livent, Luminant, Mergent, Mirant, Navigant, Naviant, Noviant, Novient, [...]

I was forwarded an interesting study from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which shows that companies with easy-to-pronounce names do better on the stock market.
Sez the NSF:

Researchers have found that companies with easily pronounced names and stock ticker symbols perform better in stock markets in the days following their initial public offering (IPO). The [...]