Manhattan Project | Project Runway | Project Mercury | Human Genome Project | The Blair Witch Project | Stations of the Cross | Project Gemini | Project Greenlight | Def Jam Recordings | Project Nike | Project Blue Book | Federal Art Project | Project Orion | Men's Recovery Project | Eden Project | World Justice Project | The Magic Numbers | Official Handbook of Stations | Wounded Warrior Project | The Octopus Project | The Alan Parsons Project | shortwave radio | Project Xanadu | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority | Gotan Project | German nuclear energy project | United Stations Radio Networks | Tony Hawk's Project 8 | The Spamhaus Project | The Mindy Project |
Many songs on The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse are prefaced by recordings from shortwave radio number stations as first made popular in recordings such as The Conet Project.
The album was named after a series of letters in the phonetic alphabet that Tweedy had heard on the Irdial box set The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations.