<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5a159e4e-5165-49c9-9e03-a403cf26aa6d/1AEE71CD-7E3D-4CD1-B234-53853DA1A2DF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mashable.com/2009/05/01/weird-url-shorteners/" href="http://mashable.com/2009/05/01/weird-url-shorteners/" style="font-size: 11px;">mashable.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/05/01/weird-url-shorteners/"><H3><A target="_blank" href="http://dickensurl.com">DickensURL</A></H3> <P></P><CENTER><IMG width="600" height="283" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-119635" title="dickensurl" alt="dickensurl" src="http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dickensurl.jpg" /></CENTER> <P>Inspired by a <A href="http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8gegu/inspired_by_a_comment_from_reddit_converts_long/">comment from Reddit</A>, DickensURL is probably the weirdest URL shortener we’ve seen. It turns URLs into (often lengthy) Charles Dickens quotes. Is it useful? No. Will it suddenly give you the urge to read Dickens? Maybe. Will it be treasured by hundreds of geeks to be used in that one situation where the Dickensian quote will fit perfectly as an uber-geeky meta-joke? Definitely. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/05/01/weird-url-shorteners/"><H3><A target="_blank" href="http://icanhaz.com/">ICanHaz</A></H3> <P></P><CENTER><IMG width="600" height="284" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-119636" title="icanhaz" alt="icanhaz" src="http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/icanhaz.jpg" /></CENTER> <P>This service works pretty much the same as other URL shorteners. However, it uses lolcats language on the site.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/05/01/weird-url-shorteners/"><P></p> <H3><A target="_blank" href="http://bacn.me/">Bacn.me</A></H3> <P></P><CENTER><IMG width="600" height="166" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-119637" title="bacn" alt="bacn" src="http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bacn.jpg" /></CENTER> <P>It’s just a regular URL shortener as far as functionality goes, but it’s…baconized. And that, my friends, is reason enough to use it. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/05/01/weird-url-shorteners/"><P></p> <H3><A target="_blank" href="http://tinyarro.ws/">Tinyarro.ws</A></H3> <P></P><CENTER><IMG width="600" height="316" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-119639" title="tinyarrows" alt="tinyarrows" src="http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/tinyarrows.jpg" /></CENTER> <P>By using Unicode, tinyarro.ws displays shortest possible URLs. They really are short, but they also look so weird that they’ll probably scare most people you send them to.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/05/01/weird-url-shorteners/"><P></p> <H3><A target="_blank" href="http://www.hugeurl.com/">HugeURL</A></H3> <P></P><CENTER><IMG width="600" height="216" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-119638" title="hugeurl" alt="hugeurl" src="http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/hugeurl.jpg" /></CENTER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/05/01/weird-url-shorteners/">You want an enormously, inexplicably, flabbergastingly HUGE URL. You ask, and HugeURL delivers;</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/05/01/weird-url-shorteners/">I’d paste one, but it would mess the entire page</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1AEE71CD-7E3D-4CD1-B234-53853DA1A2DF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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