It's rather an emergency trying to reassemble a lengthy URL to go see
the terribly important sites we send each other to. I mean, who has
the time to waste when we send our confreres to sites that may affect
the culinary future of the entire world. No, we don't have the
precious seconds to waste. What to do then...?

There are a few sites that can take those hundred-character URL's and
make them into small ones.

Oh, look. Here's one now: <http://tinyurl.com/>

It took the first URL below and made it into the second one. No
assembling of bits and pieces necessary.
http://forums.egullet.com/index.php?...0&#entry422130

http://tinyurl.com/tmna

And the coolest thing is that you can put a button on a toolbar in
your browser to make it really easy.

Pastorio