A lot of modern URLs are annoyingly long and complicated. Dynamic content, annoying ebay links -- too long to fit in polite 78 column email line and way too long for twitter, mobile phones and the like. Not to mention being ugly at the shell prompt. cow.mu takes long URLS like http://www.cspan.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS&ShowVidDays=30&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=30 and reduces them to a shorter, friendly URL like this: http://cow.mu/da42

• cow.mu turns long URLs into short URLS.
• Unlike some other popular URL shortening services, cow.mu is simple, isn't loaded down with a stack of pretty graphics and doesn't focus on analytics and advertising.
• cow.mu Bookmarklet:  Drag the link cow.mu into your browser toolbar.  Then you can create a cow.mu URL for any page open in your browser window simply by clicking on the bookmarklet.

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