Cruelly lifted from BoingBoing.net is 'vanity tinyURLing'. In the address bar, type 'tinyurl.com/xxxx', where xxxx is (up to) the first four characters of your name - having a short name or nickname may be useful here. Mine, therefore, is tinyurl.com/neil , which is an article on WashingtonPost.com about Russians resisting resettlement. Interesting.
So, what's your tinyurl.com redirect?

http://tinyurl.com/grom leads to an ebay page http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2333654688 for a Country Tea Dish Towel Dishtowel & Crochet top. Somehow that seems about right!
I can’t really see the point of these (but I had to go look anway) - mine’s for Adaptec UDF Readers…
My URL is 22 the tiny URL is 23 hmmm…
The following URL:
has a length of 22 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 23 characters:
tinyurl.com/intr gives me some nice “Parisian style” butter crocks.
https://www.ltremain.com/frameset.asp?frame=7&s=731662952&ip=12.243.84.43&d=16
Try heading to the following, and you’ll be surprised at the results:
tinyurl.com/dick tinyurl.com/cunt
(Mr/Mrs. US Vice President Cheney, so it’s not that bad, just funny links)