Filed under: Fun, Web services
Why make a URL easier to remember when you can make it harder?
Okay, this one's been around for a little while, but it's worth sharing. You know how there are a hundred web services out there like TinyURL that let you take a web address and shrink it down to something easier to remember or post on your site?Well, that's for wimps. What the world really needs is a way to make sure nobody can remember your URL. That's where hugeURL comes in.
Enter a URL, and hugeURL will add a whole bunch of absolutely unnecessary characters. See that block of text in the image on the right? That's what www.downloadsquad.com looks like when its huge-ified.
Is there any practical use for hugeURL? No. But as the website proclaims, it's "Because bigger is better, right?"
[via Digital Inspiration]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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DP said 10:47AM on 5-08-2007
DownloadSquad is getting boring day by day, Please post something useful rather than these completely useless articles
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johnnyg0 said 11:13AM on 5-08-2007
I found it funny. Undeniably useless, but fun.
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gav said 1:09PM on 5-08-2007
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Mikko said 9:01AM on 5-11-2007
Friend of mine pointed out some usage of this nonsense: When used in school reports or essays checking references can be real pain-in-the-bottom.
Way to pull a prank, but be sure your teacher understands. =)
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