cartesian-heights.org

[jack]

How about cartesian-heights.org? It's distinctive, it's a nice name, it looks fairly easy to type.

Are hyphens sane in domain names? I know many sites automatically reject[1] any email address with a "+" in, is a "-" likely to be a problem?

If you saw it, would you remember if it had a hyphen, dot, underscore or nothing between the words? If I said "cartesian heights dot org with a hyphen" would you understand it?

Are you familiar enough with the adjective "cartesian" to be able to remember it if you hadn't heard it before?

[1] See standard "why go to such an effort to make life more difficult for people?" rant

Comments

[lupie-stardust.livejournal.com]

I have to say, I'd never heard the word "cartesian" before I say your username. I'm not even sure what it means, still.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

Well, there are Cartesian coordinates, which are x, y, and z, on a graph, and then there is Cartesian, as related to Descartes, who was a philosopher. Does that help?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

(And for the record, those are the same. But yes, what alison_lees said for what it means other than me. FWIW my username references "Cartesian Demon" which is a common name for a thought experiment about a demon Descartes proposed.)

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

Sorry, forgot to mention that that was the sum of my knowledge; I expected there was more to it than that. I'm only a physicist, have a PhD, but can't do philosophy...