Random Muppy, feeling lucky?
May 8, 2011 (about 1 year ago)
I have been using Muppy for my personal URL shortening needs for a couple of months now. As URL shortening services go, Muppy is nothing special, but I have found it a useful replacement for the ur1.ca service, which I was previously using. I mainly use my Muppy instance in 2 distinct ways:
- By way of a Whird hook which sends a dent to my Identi.ca account whenever I post an entry on my blog.
- By way of a WWW browser bookmarklet, which I use for linking to content that I find amusing/interesting.
Anyhow, it occurred to me that it might be fun to be able click a button/link and have my WWW browser directed to a random URL from Muppy’s database. So, this morning I coded the new feature and pushed up a new revision. Then I remembered that I had forgotten to actually put a link to the new feature within Muppy’s default output, doh, so I pushed up another quick revision.
Are you feeling lucky, punk? If so, visit muppy.org, and click on the “Feeling Lucky?” link to have your WWW browser directed to a random URL from my personal Muppy database.
Note, if you are really feeling bored or crazy enough to actually want to do this, you should be aware that you could end-up back here (which might be somewhat confusing), or you could end-up somewhere cool, or somewhere not safe for work!
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May 12, 2011 (about 1 year ago)
Landed at http://www.zeldman.com/2011/04/15/fck-you-pay-me/
Right, not personally offended by strong language in the least (I was enlisted in the U.S. Navy for five years, where swearing is considered an art-form), I did get sent to a NSFW site, while my boss and I were eating lunch in the break-room. I laughed for the duration of the video, and at my boss’ going three shades of red (he’s a devout Baptist).
I’ve only seen Muppy used on identi.ca and wanted to know how it addresses two known issues with all URL-shorteners…
If I “mouse-over” the link will it show me the full URL that I’m going to be sent to? Not so much for my own sake, but this is how a lot of Windows machines get infected my bot-nets.
If Muppy “goes away,” will the links become broken? Annoying if that happened…
Thanks for a fun break in the day!
-jim
May 12, 2011 (about 1 year ago)
@jim, the output displayed when you mouse-over a link will depend on where you are viewing the link. I know that Facebook, Identi.ca and Twitter show the full long URL, but I am not sure how other services work.
Regarding the disappearance of Muppy and the breaking of links, I guess this is something which could happen to any URL shortening service. At least with Muppy, it is under my own control. :)
Thank you for your feedback, oh, and sorry about your boss! *chuckles*