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W-i-d-e-U-R-L: Because sometimes tiny just isn't good enough
W-i-d-e-U-R-L will take your relatively short and easy to remember URL and lengthen it by essentially spelling it out. For example, www.downloadsquad.com becomes that behemoth you see above. But wait, there's more! Is that super-long URL a bit too much to remember? No problem, W-i-d-e-U-R-L features TinyURL integration, which lets you quickly condense any freshly created URL, thus closing an entirely pointless circle.
[via Robert Scoble]
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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stan said 2:30PM on 4-16-2008
Someone has a sense of humor and too much time on there hands.
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Norman said 8:00PM on 4-16-2008
"Don't ask us when you would want that, just take our word for it."
No, you have to prove such statement. :)
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jccalhoun said 8:48PM on 4-16-2008
I prefer http://hugeurl.com/ for all my url embiggening.
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