Miscellaneous
What does this have to do with the X-MenTM?
Well, if the X-Men were looking for an address in Manhattan, they might pull out their handy Palm-powered PDA and use X-Man to find a nearby cross-street. Other than that, nothing.
"X-Man" comes from X (i.e., "cross") and Manhattan.
"X-Men" in various forms is a trademark of Marvel Entertainment Group, with which we are unaffiliated.
Isn't "X-Man" a copyright or trademark infringement?
This may surprise you, but (as of June 2003) Marvel does not hold a trademark on the term "X-Man". (You can see for yourself at the US Patent and Trademark Office -- click Trademarks, then New User Form Search). In any event, we don't make use of any of Marvel's -- nor anyone else's -- material, copyrighted, trademarked, or otherwise.
Because some few will feel compelled to point this out, we'll save you the trouble of sending email: "XMAN" (without the hyphen) does happen to be a trademark of Science Applications International Corporation, for "artificial intelligence computer programs and accompanying instruction manuals sold as a unit therewith for monitoring progressive degradation of engines." You can read why that still isn't infringement at BitLaw.
