Dickensurl.com takes any ugly, unmemorable URL and, through the magic of the public domain, converts it into Charles Dickens’ deathless prose. For example, How Did a Slide Rule Work? links to a page explaining how slide rules work. It’s totally unmemorable. But put it in the URL box and you get The serjeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love-making. Place your mouse over that text and look in your browser’s status bar, and see that the URL itself contains the Dickens quote. Click it and it takes you to the slide rule page.
No, this isn’t remotely useful. It’s blizzarding on me in the last week of April. You think I’m gonna be reasonable under these conditions?