I recently read (on our host's blog, Bleahh), this post about the fun to be had with tinyurl.com:
We recently read about a nice little diversion that is akin to the old Random Link link used by portals, but we can’t remember where we read about it. In any case, what one does is takes a link-shortening site’s link pattern and play around with it to see where one ends up. We find particular fun in using TinyURL’s pattern, since it seems to be just letters. Try your name! Try “meh” or “feh” or “ick” and see where you go! Whooaaahh! Hang on kids, it’s a thrillride, we guarantee!
Which prompted this exchange:
ishbadiddle: tiny url is fun!
lazylokovax: yes it is
lazylokovax: tinyurl.com/mike -- pipe things, nice.
ishbadiddle: /god is a digital camera guide
lazylokovax: all-seeing
lazylokovax: /hell is an item on ebay Germany: Sponge Bob Barbie mit Spongebob Keychain
ishbadiddle: and here i thought /hell was other people
lazylokovax: /hell is for children
lazylokovax: ishbadiddle: /odin is a jakob nieslen piece on the Sidekick
lazylokovax: /yhvh redirects to tinyurl itself
ishbadiddle: aha!
ishbadiddle: baal is 404
ishbadiddle: so is jesu
lazylokovax: /g-d redirects to www.sdfksdfjlsdkjflsd.com\sdfksdfjsdsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf
lazylokovax: jesu has left the building
ishbadiddle: but iesu gets you a williams sonoma catalog
lazylokovax: always wondered about that
ishbadiddle: inri gets a cnn 404, but apparently it was on duran duran
lazylokovax: reunion tour?
