def reverse_tinyurl(tinyurl) require ‘open-uri’ require ‘net/http’ url = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(tinyurl)).to_hash[‘location’].to_s end This should also work for any url that is a known redirect whether it be a tinyurl.com, urltea.com, rubyurl.com, or what have you.
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Prepare Your Pocketbooks
“Launching a paytoplay service in the midst of free alternatives makes little sense…But there’s a lot more to the conversation.” – Aaron Mentele Heh. That’s why the next web app I launch, I’m charging. A pile. Get ready cause, I’m looking at your pocketbook. Seriously, if you want to get in on the action early, …
I Still Don’t Care What Everyone Thinks
AideRSS (a feed-filtering service) is starting to pick up traction in my blogosphere. “[AideRSS] analyzes the activity around each item in an RSS feed – Technorati hits, comments, Del.icio.us links, traffic reports, etc. – and calculates a score for the item. It then creates four feeds from the original feed, each set to a higher …
License Recalled
Mattel Inc, recalls 9 million toys after recalling 1.5 millon. All the recalled products are licensed – Barbie, Batman, Big Bird, Cars, Dora, Elmo, Thomas (shakes fist). Back In My DayTM, very few licensed toys were allowed in the house. I’m sure it was a combination of the ickyness of branding your child, the sensitivity …
Rennaissance: If Blade Runner Wasn’t Drawn By Frank Miller
Baby Talk Less
“The most important fact to come from this study is there is no clear evidence of a benefit coming from baby DVDs and videos, and there is some suggestion of harm” – Frederick Zimmerman, University of Washington While I’d like more info on the study methodology (phone interviews with 1K families in MN & WA) …
Christmas (Funny) in July
Cayenne Chris’s Christmas 2006 Tekdiff episode [mp3] finally came up on my shuffled ‘Unlistened Podcast’ this afternoon. It’s one of the best Tekdiff episodes (23 4-star or great episodes in my library), from the Tiny Tree’s First Christmas to bizarre Holiday traditions in unnamed Eastern European villages. Belated Yuletide Thanks Chris.
Gifted
“When a holiday is the pretext and the value of the gift is (possibly) linked to merit, we can self-deceive and believe that a small-valued gift simply represents a cheap gift-giver, or a friendship of uncertain strength, rather than our own lack of merit.” – Tyler Cowen Ouch.
HomeMade Pizza Company coming to Minnetonka and Wayzata
One of the things I still miss from our time in the Central Street neighborhood in Evanston is the HomeMade Pizza Company take-n-bake pizza. Clean, open storefronts, amazing ingredients. Cooked up in the comfort of your own home. My favorites are the Spinach Pie and the Savory Pie. Both are so much tastier than Davanni’s …
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Systems Don’t Inherently Change Behavior
“One of the things I find most vexing is the implicit idea that acquiring a system is all you need to take care of a problem….that you’re going to be more organized because you have a PDA.” – Merlin Mann MP3 of Merlin Man’s Inbox Zero Talk @ Google And from the Q & A …