Jason Griffey wrote:
> Hello all! This is Jason Griffey again, bringing you interesting
> websites from around the wonderful World Wide Web.

Thanks, Jason, for sending these out periodically.  Where do you find 
the time to locate them all? :)

> You may have noticed quite a break in coverage, July - Sept. 2006. Well,
> it's not because I haven't been finding cool and interesting stuff. It's
> because I haven't found the time to update the site

Do you actually have a site with all the archived links on it from 
previous months?  I searched from the campus main page and the library 
search page and couldn't find it.  If you have a master 
"Useful/Interesting Websites" page, maybe you could post the links for 
those who haven't been saving the monthly e-mails.

> And with that: the websites!

I'll throw in one of my own (I was going to look up your page to see if 
you had posted it previously :)

TinyURL
http://tinyurl.com/

Very useful for those who need to send a link to a page that's deeply 
embedded in a site (many directories deep or with a long embedded query 
string, etc.) such that their e-mail programs mangle the link ... or in 
case people actually need to type the URL into their browser.  instead 
of something like ...

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqma
p.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252bKZmeiIh6N%252bI
gpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q6
OzE5XVqcuc5zb%252fY5wy1MZwTnT2pu%252bNMjOjsHjvN
lygTRMzqazPStrN%252f1YzA0oWEWLwkHdhVHeG9sG6cMrf
XNJKHY6fML4o6Nb0SeQm75ET9jAjKelrmqBCNta%252bsKC
9n8jslz%252fo188N4g3BvAJYuzx8J8r%252f1fPFWkPYg%
252bT9Su5KoQ9YpNSj%252bmo0h0aEK%252bofj3f6vCP

... it creates a nice short link such as http://tinyurl.com/gp9k9 that 
points to the same page in a lot fewer characters.  Cool, eh?

-- 
Joe Dumas, Ph.D.
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Dept. 2302
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