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URL shortening 2.0

As the ever-expanding URL shortening business is concerned, the recently arrived shadyurl is a clear winner.

First of all it doesn’t even attempt to shorten the URL, and it additionally mangles it to a form that is very unattractive to surfers who actually bother checking the target of a link.

The innocent permalink to this very entry is transmuted to rather suspicion-arousing http://5z8.info/worm_k8s0m_myspace-of-sex.

I can see my house from here!

Good, bad and geeky

Journaling made easy and statistically complete

DIY travel guide

Word of the week: privacy theatre

Win-win: Firefox and lemur protection

Almost chromed

Why I’m glad I didn’t take the designer route

Diving into the future (with illustrations from the past)

Feeling lucky just got a lot weirder

Nomen est Omen

If the internet disappeared today

Search Engine Optimizers? Take the first left, next cell to the spammers.

Famous for fifteen gigabytes

  • Typedia, a community-created database of fonts, foundries and designers.

Jessica Biel, a typhoid Mary for the 21st century

Google Reader feed broken again

Return of .plan and .project?

Domain tasting is dead

Experimenting with SVG