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?
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November 17, 2003 at 17:32
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!
November 18, 2003 at 12:59
I can’t really see the point of these (but I had to go look anway) – mine’s for Adaptec UDF Readers…
November 18, 2003 at 13:49
My URL is 22 the tiny URL is 23 hmmm…
The following URL:
http://blog.iloaf.com/
has a length of 22 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 23 characters:
http://tinyurl.com/vhsa
November 18, 2003 at 20:39
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
November 19, 2003 at 12:43
Vanity Tinyurl
Neil posted about Vanity TinyURL’s where you see where tinyurl/yourname takes you. Mine, takes you to the amazon site for the collectors edition of Transformers Series 1 on DVD which I think is rather cool and geekish
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November 22, 2003 at 07:38
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)