links for 2006-12-04

• pasta and vinegar » The Economist on the future of phone
  The last issue of The Economist has a good article about the phone of the future. Some quotes of this compelling overview:
  (tags: future phone)
• The Generator Blog
  This blog is not about those machines used to change mechanical energy into electrical energy. It’s about software that creates software. Software to play around and have fun with.
  (tags: generator tools blog generators ideas)
• post.thing.net | A lean, mean, media machine.
  THE THING is a non-profit organization committed to the development of new media culture, information technology, and social activism.
  (tags: art blog culture design)
• Internationalized domain name – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The conversions between ASCII and non-ASCII forms of a domain name are accomplished by algorithms called ToASCII and ToUnicode. These algorithms are not applied to the domain name as a whole, but rather to individual labels. For example, if the domain nam
  (tags: DNS domain net web seo)
• Punycode – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Punycode, defined in RFC 3492, is the self-proclaimed “bootstring encoding” of Unicode strings into the limited character set permitted in host names. The encoding is used as part of IDNA, which is a system enabling the use of internationalized domain nam
  (tags: DNS Domains phishing security unicode punycode)