I ran into a similar problem on an open source project I'm working on... we had a namespace collision on a twitter client, both with the name "Bluebird." Their team had a very talented designer, so I offered to change the name of my project in exchange for some artwork from them. I ended up changing the name of my project to "Buzzbird."

Surely there must be some way that Google could make a similar arrangement w/ fmccabe?