http://www.metafilter.com/tags/questionableusefulness Posts tagged with 'questionableusefulness' at MetaFilter. Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:08:39 -0800 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:08:39 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/40646/Theres%2Dno%2Dplace%2Dlike%2Dlawcoolcoolfun <a href="http://mysteryrobot.com/">What's a namber?</a> A <em>namber</em> is a word that acts as a mnemonic for a number. For example, 65 is <em>drum</em>, and 181 is <em>push</em>. A <em>namber address</em> uses an arbitrarily-chosen list of nambers to represent each of the numbers from 0 to 255 in order to assemble four words to represent any IP address. Metafilter.com's namber is <a href="http://mysteryrobot.com/cgi/namber?address=metafilter.com">earth.frog.brown.tooth</a>, and mysteryrobot.com conveniently provides <a href="http://earth.frog.brown.tooth.mysteryrobot.com/" title="MetaFilter">translation and forwarding to the real IP address</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.40646 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:08:39 -0800 ipv4 nambers networking questionableusefulness TheCowGod