Delicious founder Joshua Schachter says that URL shorteners like TinyURL are a bad idea, because they make the web more fragile, dependent on the shortener services as central points of failure. They also assist spammers, undermine googlejuice, and expose users to security vulnerabilities. I ...

We've talked a lot about making URLs shorter, from Hive Five polls to fancy Unicode tricks. What about those occasions you want to make your URL bigger? Sure, it's convenient to shorten a URL so...