By the way, if you're looking for a more comprehensive list of URL shorteners, check out our older list of over 90 such services.
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Inspired by a comment from Reddit, 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.
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This service works pretty much the same as other URL shorteners. However, it uses lolcats language on the site. So, if you despise proper grammar and spelling and want to see messages such as "I maded you a url!" or "I maded you nuthin' - tries another Short URL?", this is the one for you.
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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.
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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. For geeks who regularly read The Unicode Standard, it's definitely the one to use.
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Sometimes, you don't want a short URL, and you don't want a long URL. You want an enormously, inexplicably, flabbergastingly HUGE URL. You ask, and HugeURL delivers; I'd paste one, but it would mess the entire page, so you'll just have to trust me that the URLs it creates are, indeed, huge.
Have any favorite URL shorteners that are funny or just plain odd? Please name them in the comments!