name contest winner–
ok. the winning new domain name is — what are you looking down here for, jerkass? look up at the “address” window of your browser.
Murray, you won! Once again you saved me.
In addition to supplying the best name, Murray also wrote:
“also - you mentioned this was a *contest*? that means there’s a prize or some shit? ”
Yess, Murray.
you win the rest of this picture I took:
It is two snakes having total sex.
Not sure whether it is a prize, but definitely it is some shit.
Runner-up: Sho suggested 大東亜共栄圏.com
(this is awesome because 大東亜共栄圏 is what the Japanese called their colonized countries of slavery and murder during WWII. ) (korea, china, Phillipines, etc.)
also awesome because apparently one can now do KANJI URLS!
quoth Sho: “You can do kanji URLs easily! You just need to find a registrar who 1. supports IDNs (these are called IDNs) and 2. you can understand their weird-ass page.”
Sho, i tried to link to the URL for your blog, but it didn’t work. send again, please?
second runner-up: an-chan with YARITAKUNAI.com
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:43 pm
大東亜共栄圏.com should be: xn--llqw2ej1ggncus2ajza.com
Ascii representation of unicode values is a bit of an oxymoron.
May 3rd, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Yay, 2nd runner up!
Shouldn’t I get some kind of dagnasty, f’ed up imagery? Snakes doin’ the deed ain’t enough fer me!
May 3rd, 2006 at 6:09 pm
yesssss!!1
and btw: the rest of the pic was good. *very good*.
May 4th, 2006 at 11:04 am
dr j. - i did not understand anything you wrote. i am a ranting funny guy website. i am not a “computer person who thinks linux is too mainstream” website. can you write your post again with dumb people words?
May 6th, 2006 at 9:00 am
Yeah,
“International Domain Names” are really regular domains with a certain prefix (xn--) & then the unicode/internation letters are represented in ASCII (American/English letters). Computers see numbers as letters by mapping a number to a value; in ASCII “a” would equal 91 etc. Unicode starts at a much higher range then ASCII so it is possible to combine the value of 2 ASCII letters to equal one Uncide character.
So it isn’t really a true unicode address, your browser has to be able to detect IDN’s and then perform a translation from ASCII to Unicode in order to see the Kanji instead of cryptic looking ASCII letters.
Hope that was helpful, mang.