Finally, a tiny url service that mashes short urls with Charles Dickens quotes.

The dickensurl site itself becomes ...

http://dickensurl.com/25/I_am_the_only_child_of_parents_who_....

That seems to defy the point in url shorterning?

And that URL becomes longer still! http://dickensurl.com/399/I_revere_the_memory_of_Mr._F._as_a....

I think the joke is that Dickens is known for being extra wordy as an author, and to make a "tinyurl" service using his works would be... ludicrous. =)

ludicrous? I think it's amazing...because I'm STILL trying to finish A Tale of Two Cities.

Wouldn't Hemingway be a better choice?

My, actually useful, URL shortener preserves part of the domain name in the shortened URL: http://twi.bz/