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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]

With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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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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