There’s lots of silly URL shorteners.
Some of my favorites – not just because of their silliness, but because they offer some interesting potential;
- GiantURL – takes a regular URL and transforms it into a multi-line, unreadable, hash. Potentially, the information you’re sharing could be encoded into the hash, rather than redirected. Hmmm. what’s the difference?
- Similarly, IWouldHaveBoughtYouThis.com. Which takes advantage of Cullect‘s custom domain URL shortener – again shows us that URL shortening is like packing peanuts for sending those special nothings.
- and of course Re07.us, still makes me smile – and still shows me that if you limit namespace, you can offer time.
Tonight the Wege added another non-URL shortener to the list.
DickinsURL
DickinsURL takes your url and applies a sentence from one of Charles Dickins’ works as the key.
“Enter an ugly URL above and hit convert button. Soon you will be faced with beautiful words of Charles Dickens.”
Unfortunately – if you take a close look at the URLs it generates – the Dickin’s lines are optional!
@highwind – if you drop the numeric key, I’ll give you the #2 slot. 🙂