Nemo Is Coming

 Nemo hits New England on February 8th.
February 8th is Jules Verne's birthday.

Nemo is a Latin word meaning "no man" or "no one" or "nobody." The forecasted blizzard set to hit over the weekend on the East Coast has been Weather Channel-named "Nemo."

Blizzard Nemo is will hit New England on February 8-9, 2013.

What other connections have been made to Nemo?

What does Wikipedia have to say?

Fiction 

Captain Nemo, captain of the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Mysterious Island (1870)
Little Nemo, protagonist of the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay (1905)
Nemo, a minor character from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House (1852)
MSA-003 Nemo, a mobile suit from the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985)
Nemo, the protagonist of the video game Ace Combat 3 (1999)
Nemo, the main character in the film Finding Nemo (2003)
Nemo Nobody, the title character of the film Mr. Nobody (2009)
Quentin Nemo, a warlock from the novel Orphans of Chaos (2005)
Judge Nemo, main villain of the video game Disgaea 4 (2011)
Captain Nemo, captain of the futuristic submarine Nautilus in the Japanese animated series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1991)

Music 

Nemo (band), a Brooklyn, New York-based band
Nemo (Belgian band), a former Belgian rock band
"Nemo" (song), a song by Nightwish from their album Once
"Nemo", a song by Umphrey's McGee from their album Safety in Numbers

Geography 

Nemo Peak, a volcano in the Kuril Islands
Mount Nemo Conservation Area in Burlington, Ontario
Nemo, South Dakota, an unincorporated community
Nemo, Texas, an unincorporated community
Point Nemo, the oceanic pole of inaccessibility

People 

Nemo Gaines, U.S. Naval officer and Major League Baseball player
Gina Nemo, actress
Henry Nemo, musician
Nemo, screen name of actor who appeared in Bollywood films from the 1930s through 1950s
Nickname of Hayley Palmer, New Zealand swimmer
Nickname of Antti Niemi, NHL goalie for the San Jose Sharks
Nickname of Everett Ruess, a mysterious poet and traveler of the 30s

Other uses 

Nemo, the Classic Comics Library, a magazine devoted to classic comic strips
Citroën Nemo, a small truck
Nemo 33, a diving center in Uccle, Belgium
Caisson Nemo, a former French rocket launch pad off the Riviera coast
Nemo-3D, an authoring tool for 3D realtime applications; succeeded by Virtools 

Nemo, an arcade game by Capcom based on Little Nemo in Slumberland
NEMO Equipment, Inc., a manufacturer of outdoor tents and shelters
Nemo Rangers GAA, a Football and Hurling from Cork, IrelandNemo Documents, a calender-based file manager for Microsoft Windows.
Nemo (file manager) a file manager for Linux distributions forked from Nautilus.

As an acronym 

IKBKG or NF-Kappa-B Essential Modulator (NEMO), a protein 

NEMO (video game console), a never released VHS system video game console
NEMO (museum), a national science museum in Amsterdam
Patria NEMO, a mortar system
Neutrino Ettore Majorana Observatory, a neutrino-related experiment in Modane, France
NEMO 3-D, a tool for nanoelectronics modeling
Network for the Establishment and Maintenance of Order, a fictional DC Comics organization created by the extraterrestrial Controllers

See also 

NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations), a program studying human survival in an underwater laboratory.
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Some people have had fun with Nemo:

Thanks to Matthew Deagle for pointing to the Charles Manson video.

Athena: 2012's First Nor'easter

Did you know the first winter storm of 2012 has been named Athena?

In the wake of "Election Night: Prometheus or Lucifer," the film Prometheus (which opened on June 8, 2012), and its relationship to Blade Runner (see here and here), tonight's storm has lexilinks to Prometheus.

In Greek religion and mythology, Athena or Athene, also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene, is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, just warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill. (Athena's Roman name is Minerva. Both Minerva, New York, and Minerva, Ohio, were impacted by Hurricane Sandy.)

Athena is the virgin patroness of Athens, Greece. The Athenians founded the Parthenon on the Acropolis of her namesake city, Athens (Athena Parthenos), in her honor. The city of Athens and the goddess Athena essentially bear the same name. Source.

When Zeus and the other Olympian gods rebelled against the Titans, Prometheus sided with the gods and thus won their favor. He held Zeus's aching head so that Hephaestus (Vulcan) could split it open and release the goddess Athena. To show her gratitude, Athena taught Prometheus astronomy, mathematics, architecture, navigation, metalworking, writing, and other useful skills. He later passed this knowledge on to humans.
Prometheus created humans by shaping lumps of clay into small figures resembling the gods. Athena admired these figures and breathed on them, giving them life. Zeus disliked the creatures, but he could not uncreate them. He did, however, confine them to the earth and denied them immortality. Prometheus felt sorry for humans, so he gave them fire and taught them various arts and skills. Source.

Not everyone is happy with naming this storm.

While Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy made history books for its destruction, its follow up storm is making history for a different reason: it's name.
The Nor'easter bearing down on New England Wednesday has been given the name "Athena" by the folks at The Weather Channel -- the inaugural name on the list of winter storm names the channel created this season.

As you might have heard, The Weather Channel went on their own and created a policy of naming winter storms in October, figuring a named storm will make communications easier, especially on social media where the storm could become a hashtag.
With "Athena", TWC said the storm meets their criteria for naming the storm due to the possibility of several inches of snow across some areas that were still recovering from Sandy, including the interior sections of New Jersey.
But not everyone is playing along with the idea.
The National Weather Service issued a directive to their East Coast forecasters not to use the name Athena in any of their forecasts or warnings. Read more here.

 New Jersey was hit by Athena on November 7, 2012.

"A day can press down all human things, and a day can raise them up. But the gods embrace men of sense and abhor the evil." - Athena to Odysseus

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Thanks to RPJ for the newstip.