One of the better sites :)

[rlohmann]

http://tinyurl.com/akx4s

(Of course, we'll take down your name if you open it, but....)

[Lindsey]

http://tinyurl.com/akx4s

(Of course, we'll take down your name if you open it, but....)
Why do you insist on using tinyurl addresses here? They expire after some short period of time, and you can't preview where the browser is going to take you. I try to make a practice of NOT blindly clicking on links. Why not just paste in the real URL?

--Lindsey

[Judy G. Russell]

Ralph, to follow up on Lindsey's point... in this software it's easy to add a hotlink without bothering with the tinyurl stuff (since, as she correctly points out, those expire). Simply type a left bracket [ followed by url= and then paste in the full url no matter how long it is and then type a right bracket ] then some words like Great website and then a left bracket [ then /url and then right bracket, so that the whole thing looks like this:
[ url = http://www.whatever.website.com ]Great website![ /url ]except that there should be NO spaces inside the brackets.

[rlohmann]

Ralph, to follow up on Lindsey's point... in this software it's easy to add a hotlink without bothering with the tinyurl stuff (since, as she correctly points out, those expire). I know how to cut and paste URLs. I just wasn't thinking. I also didn't realize that tinyURLs expired so quickly.

Anyway, the URL is

http://www.thefrown.com/frowners/becomerepublican.swf

[Judy G. Russell]

More better in this software is replacing the URL in between the brackets with words. That way even if the URL itself is very long, the clickable link is both short and descriptive.

[Dan in Saint Louis]

Since when do tinyurls expire?

[mshefler]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathidium_bushi

[Judy G. Russell]

Hmmm... as of right now, the tinyurl website says they never expire. However, I've seen a number of them that have expired. I suppose the reality is that the tinyurl link isn't expired; it's the underlying web page that does (or has been moved).

[Lindsey]

I know how to cut and paste URLs. I just wasn't thinking. I also didn't realize that tinyURLs expired so quickly.

Thanks; I'm sorry to be grumpy about it, but after coming across three of them, I was beginning to wonder if you were being deliberately cryptic!

--Lindsey

[Lindsey]

Hmmm... as of right now, the tinyurl website says they never expire. However, I've seen a number of them that have expired. I suppose the reality is that the tinyurl link isn't expired; it's the underlying web page that does (or has been moved).
I've come across some that appear to have expired, too. And I thought that was the message I got; I don't recall that it took me to a "page not found" on another host site.

--Lindsey