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Weird Wednesday: Purplemonkeydishwasher.com
If you've tried to register a domain name in the last decade or so you're probably aware of the "cromulent word scarcity syndrome" (yes, I just made that up). In other words, most of the good names are gone. Scratch another off the list with purplemonkeydishwasher.com, a reference to a line in The Simpsons. As is my wont, I typed this random URL into my browser and was pleasantly surprised to see a modicum of functionality (as opposed to a placeholder site with nothing but keyword links).
Purplemonkeydishwasher.com is running a fortune-telling application. Not so much a real fortune-teller, actually, but a simple random text fetcher. As the site explains:
fortune is a program which displays random messages, quotations, folk sayings, and other verbal fluff. Historically, it dates back to unix systems, and is believed to have been used by software developers to help break tension, or perhaps it was simply just an early version of a 'widget'. Because it was originally created by software engineers, some of the older fortunes are programmer's jokes and make little sense to most people. Since then, however, the fortune database has grown and forked off to numerous differing versions. Some fortunes are well dated or make social comments now out of context, others make no sense whatsoever, but many are gems, offering truly useful advice or food for thought, and many are timeless with origins unknown.
What other random URL's have you found?
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Subscribe to commentsDeadpanMar 25th 2009 6:18PM
"What other random URL's have you found?"
Wow. Talk about a loaded question.
Well. I bought PostReply.org thinking it was clever and witty.
It was lost by domain transfer issues three times, squatted twice.
I know have a good extended lock on it.
RiddarMar 26th 2009 1:15PM
Dopeoplesuck.com is always a soothing reminder of reality.
OjNKMar 25th 2009 6:59PM
I was absolutely shocked when I managed to get swissarmyshotgun.com just last week! :) (No, this isn't an ad, right now it just goes to my boring geekclone blog.)
Halo2MasterMar 26th 2009 9:36AM
Just remember: A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
frozenpantsman!Mar 26th 2009 11:41AM
wemadeoutinatreeandthisoldguysatandwatchedus.com
Though it does redirect to wemadeout.com now, which I was a bit saddened by.
Oh, well.
MalaycobraMar 26th 2009 5:08PM
Recession: A period when you go without things your grandparents never heard of.
Very apt...
RSMar 30th 2009 11:13AM
www.RandomShit.com
hipsterdoofusMar 31st 2009 2:08PM
I always liked http://bah.org/
AmmonApr 3rd 2009 1:34PM
One of my favs is it's a secret to everybody. Fans of the Old School NES classic, the Legend of Zelda, should be familiar with this.