On 1 Jun 2009 at 18:07, Ken Steele wrote: > http://dickensurl.com/ > > Inspired by a comment from reddit, this service has been created > to convert long URLs into wonderful works by Charles Dickens. The > fear of cryptic URLs, long or short, is now no longer a problem. > Enter an ugly URL above and hit convert button. Soon you will be > faced with beautiful words of Charles Dickens. Forget > tinyurl.com, now you have dickensurl.com!
Clever and amusing, but definitely not tiny urls. It's not going to fly, not that anyone intended that it would. But why not some contemporary versions--say, the wit and wisdom of George W. Bush or, for that matter, Stephen Harper? Bush: see http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm or http://dickensurl.com/b227/My_friend_is_dead_my_neighbour_is_dead_my_love_ the_darling_of_my_soul_is_dead_it_is_the_inexorable_consolidation_and_perp etuation_of_the_secret_that_was_always_in_that_individuality_and_which_I_s hall_carry_in_mine_to_my_lifes_end_In_any_of_the_burialplaces_of_this_city _through_which_I_pass_is_there_a_sleeper_more_inscrutable_than_its_busy_in habitants_are_in_their_innermost_personality_to_me_or_than_I_am_to_them Harper: see http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/stephen_harper.html or http://dickensurl.com/b225/I_want_to_know_what_it_says_he_answered_looking _steadily_in_her_face_The_sea_Floy_what_is_it_that_it_keeps_on_saying Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [email protected] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
