Via BoingBoing: add your name/initials/other personal identifier after the address“http://tinyurl.com/” to see where it leads you. Mine (“/akma”) points to a hack for making the Philips DVDR-880 region-free.
TinyURL is one of the handiest and most under-used web tricks going. If you enter a long, unwieldy URL, they return to you a short, simple URL that directs to the site you initially chose.
“/jane” sends me to a site where I can buy the “Pro Action 2 Person Monodome Tent.”
This is fun!
I am apparently cursed, as jzip sends me here: http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html
I like http://makeashorterlink.com/index.php
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