Links for 2006-10-17
- Mike Schinkel writes passionately about well-designed URLs and beauty... I agree with everything he says, and will try my hardest not to ask about the URLs on his own site which are ... less than beautiful. I know it's cheap to bring it up, and I apologise in advance. But...
- Alice links to some Michael Jackson / WOW Machinima There's been some hard work gone into editing this one, and the result is extremely classy and cool and of significantly higher quality than much of the recent South Park episode...
- The Open Rights Group is looking for a full-time Executive Director "ORG now needs a full time Executive Director (ED) to build our supporter numbers and expand our activities. The ED reports to the ORG Board, and has the support of an Advisory Council of digital rights experts."
Comments
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Tom,
>> ...and will try my hardest not to ask about the URLs on his own site
>> which are ... less than beautiful. I know it's cheap to bring it up,
>> and I apologise in advance. But...
LOL! Thanks for the link. *YES*, many of the urls on my blog SUCK!!! I hate it!!!! It's dasBlog, dontcha know? ASP.NET running on IIS6. Grrrrr.
That's one of the (many) reasons why I started WellDesignedUrls.org because most people developing web applications give lip service at best to quality URLs, *especially* on the MICROSOFT platform. I spent 12 years in that environment, and am just coming out of my shell! Seriously, that is the topic of a long blog post I hope to write soon; why I previously limited to Microsoft and why I am now expanding my horizons beyond Microsoft, but not foresaking them completely.
I'm hoping maybe you'll spend a little time over at WellDesignedUrls.org if you think of anything about URLs you want to document...
I'll be launching the Blog for WellDesignedUrls.org real soon now, and it will be on WordPress w/much nicer URLs. :)
→ Posted by: Mike Schinkel at October 19, 2006 8:42 AM
I was just doing a quick news hunt for Londonist and came across this URL which I think may well be the longest and ugliest I've ever witnessed:
http://www.mad.co.uk//Logon/ArticleLogon.aspx?A=1&User3=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&Logon3=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&uiArticleID=05d72d7c-0358-4c1d-a666-2283b7ece3fe&uiNavigationItemID=&uiPageID=8453a00f-9d1a-404a-beda-339905b6b8b4&PipelinedPage=/Main/Home/Articlex/05d72d7c03584c1da6662283b7ece3fe/London-bus-to-promote-Dirty-Dancing.html&PipelinedQueryString=uiArticleID%3d05d72d7c-0358-4c1d-a666-2283b7ece3fe%26uiNavigationItemID%3ddf6ea822-cc15-44f7-83c0-9f16431dfcef%26&
→ Posted by: Rob at October 19, 2006 9:15 AM
and the result is extremely classy and cool and of significantly higher quality than much of the recent South Park episode...
Funny you should mention that. Both that video and the South Park machinima episode were made by the same folks.
→ Posted by: Jason at October 19, 2006 10:25 PM