
Inspired by a comment from Reddit, DickensURL is probably the weirdest URL shortener we’ve seen. It turns URLs into (often lengthy) Charles Dickens quotes. Is it useful? No. Will it suddenly give you the urge to read Dickens? Maybe. Will it be treasured by hundreds of geeks to be used in that one situation where the Dickensian quote will fit perfectly as an uber-geeky meta-joke? Definitely.

This service works pretty much the same as other URL shorteners. However, it uses lolcats language on the site.

It’s just a regular URL shortener as far as functionality goes, but it’s…baconized. And that, my friends, is reason enough to use it.

By using Unicode, tinyarro.ws displays shortest possible URLs. They really are short, but they also look so weird that they’ll probably scare most people you send them to.