MetaFilter posts tagged with URL

Taking URL Shortening Further

filthy light thief — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:18:24 -0800

There are few ways to make URL shortening any shorter, given the 90+ URL shortening sites available, unless you get tricky. Tinyarro.ws uses two tricks to further shorten URLs, and greatly expand the theoretical limit to short URLs: international domain names and unicode character encoding. [via mefi projects] Though international domain names are widely supported, and the threat of IDN spoofs has passed, unicode domain names can get messy, as there can be display problems at the operating system level and browser level. Setting up unicode fonts can clear some of those problems, but the issue of URL shortening service longevity is still a concern, with shortened URLs in printed publications and not just tweets or IMs.

Never gonna let you exceed reasonable character length limits in email and other message systems

ardgedee — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:59:30 -0800

Rickroll everybody! Rickroll everything! rickroll.it!

Anonymously.

divabat — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:12:19 -0800

The Anonymous Message Server - leave a message, get a message. (or a URL, if you want.)

Art and Politics and URL

anotherpanacea — Thu, 18 May 2006 08:26:05 -0800

"If only" is the frustrated utopian refrain of Oliver Ressler and David Thorne's absurdly dysfunctional URL addresses collectively titled "Boom!".

0762423374.01._PF_PE10_PU5_PE09_PU5_PE08_PU5_PE07_PU5_PE06_PU5_PE05_PU5_PE04_PU5_PE03_PU5_PE02_PU5_PE01_.jpg

DrJohnEvans — Thu, 26 May 2005 06:49:03 -0800

Abusing Amazon images. And you thought URL manipulation was a lost art.

The memespread project

cbrody — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 02:19:16 -0800

The memespread project. How does a meme spread? What part does MetaFilter play in the process? [via waxy.org]

Power Genitalia

kirkaracha — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:57:15 -0800

Power Genitalia? If only we could harness that power...

Jakob's Search Engine: Contradiction?

TNLNYC — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:14:47 -0800

Am I the only one finding this URL odd, considering the content: But for those of you interested in more devilish Jakob fun, check out use.it.or.lose.it

bjgeiger — Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:18:31 -0800

Q209354 - HOWTO Semi-comic relief. Found on newsgroup.

prolific — Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:29:18 -0800

We want 'em shorter. Frustrated with links that are too long to 'cut 'n' paste 'n' click'? Makeashorterlink.com makes 'em shorter. Nifty! [ via, and because of the Gorjuss mailing list ]

aaron — Tue, 03 Apr 2001 11:46:31 -0800

Now they're putting URLs on our license plates. This Internet thing has finally gone too far. (Though the thought of Dale Earnhardt license plates is itself disturbing.)

sugarfish — Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:42:14 -0800

Al Gore Hijacks Ryder Truck full of Ballots heh heh heh.

anildash — Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:51:59 -0800

Proprietary URLs? How many of these non-standard prefixes does your system support?

Just off the top of my head with the programs I have running right now, I can handle nap: aim: hotline: and a few others, not counting all the ones built into my browser.

More inside...

mathowie — Tue, 04 Jan 2000 12:04:30 -0800

Here's a list of all the cool, short URLs still left to be registered. Get 'em while you can!

mathowie — Sat, 25 Dec 1999 23:12:37 -0800

Here's a gross mis-use of the web: 800-357-7766.com. This mail order company is spamming the airwaves with commercials for their goofy 'tap lights,' and at the end of each commerical, they advertise their website with this unwieldy address. For less than $50, the company could have bought 'taplights.com' and directed customers there, but instead they force people to write down an address that goes against all the reasons why we have the domain registry in the first place. Why don't they just give our their IP address instead? It's about as useful as their phone number domain name.