2001-07-20
10:19:03 AM
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O.Henry where are you now?.
TBTF Irregular Gary Stock forwarded
this story,
which Ananova picked up from a Norwegian news agency. It seems that
a Chinese man and woman had flirted and courted for a month in a Net
chat room. When they finally arranged to meet f2f, each
discovered that her/his ideal other was the person to whom s/he was
already married. Sparks flew.
They each agreed to carry a certain newspaper to identify
themselves, but were shocked when they came face-to-face and started
fighting in the street.
2001-07-18
8:29:30 AM
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Make A Shorter Link.
A Web tips newsletter I read, The
Internet Tourbus, ordinarily is scrupulous about providing
rifle-shot links to the online services under discussion. Recently
when reviewing the "Help for Problem PCs" resource provided by
Consumer Reports, Patrick Douglas Crispen apologized for linking
only to CR's top page.
I'd love to give you the Web address for this report so that you
can access it directly, but Consumer Reports' Web addresses are
just a little under 27,000 characters long.
I visited the brand-new and dead-simple
Make A Shorter Link site,
fed it
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detail.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=84767&FOLDER
%3C%3Efolder_id=84747&bmUID=995292624737&WebLogicSession=O1L1nwYbZDJ6sszLShCyn7
I67fBybhhL11976wFJAze2dXzu3felhsBjIOTkMfBLX9JVFiChHpE3|-4302279081402481581/169
937912/5/7005/7005/7002/7002/-1|6838799378646455085/169937909/5/7005/7005/7002/
7002/-1|-4302279081402473960
and got back
Updated 2001-07-21, 8:38 am:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W3CA2110
which redirects to the proper Consumer Reports page. Simple. Quick.
A one-off service as indispensible as
Mailexpire. Even simpler,
this page
contains a bookmarklet that automatically generates a shorter
link for the current page.
Make A Shorter Link is a production of the Pants Colletive; Giles
Turnbull clued me in. (He is
credited
there as responsible for sneezes, flouncing off on foreign travel,
and nagging. He also pens many of the essays on
WriteTheWeb.)
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