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i'm sure that, in the future, doctoral dissertations will expound upon the increasingly complex decision making process of naming a new website without drowning in a sea of "that name is not available" messages from those ever-proliferating domain registries.

i'm also sure that future web addresses will develop their own internal language rules, and am secretly hoping they look something like the early spam headlines N and i used to e-mail each other a few years ago.

(ie, not much like recognizeable english at all. basically a corrupted version of english, more or less - englitch, maybe? i think that's already taken and isn't web-talk specific enough. ng1tch would be closer to what i'm looking for but is already irritating to look at. i think you get the point).

i've been known to quietly bemoan the lack of something like a URL "white pages" for this very reason; why is it so hard to randomly browse URL's? how are you supposed to find addresses you don't know the name of (other than searching by content, of course)?. you would think that such an index would be one of the most basic services imaginable. why one hasn't been compiled and maintained confuses me; is it just that i haven't been looking in the right places?

anyway, it's therefore vaguely satisfying to stumble across a website with a URL that is both concise and fetching. and it's in that spirit of joyful discovery that i present my favorite URL of the day, the charmingly named

easy mentalism

[postscript, nov. 1: oh no! now it's broken! somehow, i killed easy mentalism! shit.]