Indy 339560 222716739 2008-06-30T19:37:57Z Ken Shook 2391882 '''Indy''' can refer to: *People, places, and things from, or associated with, the city of [[Indianapolis, Indiana]] or its surrounding metropolitan area. *[[Indy (gene)]], found in ''[[Drosophila melanogaster]]'', which makes the fly live twice as long. Here, '<SMALL>INDY</SMALL>' stands for "I'm not dead yet!" *[[Indy (software)]], a music discovery system using collaborative filtering conceived by Ian Clarke. *[[Indy grab]], a skateboarding trick. *The [[SGI Indy]] workstation from SGI. *[[Internet Direct (Indy)|Internet Direct]] for [[Borland Delphi]] and FreePascal. '''Indy''' is a [[registered trademark]] of Brickyard Trademarks, Inc., the licensing arm of the [[Indianapolis Motor Speedway|Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation]]. '''Indy''' is also commonly used, and frequently misused, as a nickname or abbreviation: *It is a proper nickname for the city of [[Indianapolis, Indiana]], the surrounding metropolitan area, and people/places/things associated with that geographic region. It often appears in lieu of the word "Indianapolis" in phrases and names, such as "[[Indianapolis 500|Indy 500]]", or "Indy cars" (a short name for the vehicles that race at the circuits of the [[Indy Racing League]]). It should be noted that Indy is ''never'' an appropriate nickname for the state of [[Indiana|Indiana]] or things related to that state in its entirety. *The nickname for the former [[Champ Car]] & [[V8 Supercar]] Racing festival at Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. *The nickname for the fictional character [[Indiana Jones]]. *The nickname of an incoherent deluded character from [[Clanplay]]. *[[Indy (singer)|Indy]], a [[Serbia]]n [[turbo-folk]] singer. *It is also an incorrect spelling for an abbreviation of the word "independent"; the correct abbreviation should always be spelled "[[indie]]". As such, the following usages may be colloquial, but are improper: **As an improper nickname for [[Independence High School (San Jose, California)|Independence High School]], located in [[San Jose, California|San Jose]], [[California]], [[USA]]. **"Indy Media" is an improper nickname for the [[Independent Media Center]]. **"The Indy" is an improper nickname for the British [[newspaper]] ''[[The Independent]]'' and a Providence-based college newspaper ''[[The College Hill Independent]]''. See also [[Indie]]. {{disambig}} [[de:Indy]] [[fr:Indy]] [[ja:インディ]]