CGI scripts

Two new fun scripts to play with.  The first decorates text with all sorts of diacritics, and was inspired by Jordon Kalilich of The World of Stuff.

The second needs a bit more explanation.  There is a site called TinyURL that shortens long URLs for inclusion, for instance, in emails.  Unlike other services such as Make A Shorter Link, however, TinyURL assigns its shortened URLs sequentially, meaning that you can see what pages other people have been visiting.  The script I wrote brings up a [Random TinyURL] page (drag that previous link to your links bar for convenience.  If your web browser caches the results of the script, giving you the same page every time, drag this link [Random TinyURL] to your links bar.  In the latter I’m using the random() function to generate a new URL for each request, to sidestep caching.)

My script is better than the two other scripts I found on the web that claim to do this: one only looks at pages through AZZZ, about ten percent of the total available, the other looks at all pages of the form XXXX, most of which haven’t been assigned yet.  If you find any startlingly good (or just startling) links through this script, feel free to post them here.

Warning: The resulting page may be anything found on the internet, and therefore may, of course, not be appropriate for all viewers (http://tinyurl.com/lnbz, for instance, to cite an especially pronounced example.) Viewer-discretion-own-risk-etc.