Boxes and Glue

I pointed towards the idea of a javascript based snippet of code that would clean the ugly google URLs in the result page to ease copy-pasting of them. We can probably get Google to do it just under the threat to bypass completely their redirect scheme with a greasemonkey script. Can you hear me, O Almighty Google? :)

The second one just came to me today, and it would need to either be integrated in a number of different apps or in the OS. What about a background/automatic tinyurl decoder? It would do the initial reguest, as in:

$ telnet tinyurl.com 80 # let's see http://tinyurl.com/2j9d3w
Trying 195.66.135.131...
Connected to tinyurl.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /2j9d3w HTTP/1.1
Host: tinyurl.com

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.3
Location: http://memojo.com/~sgala/blog/2007/08/21/Annoying-Google-URLs
Content-type: text/html
Content-Length: 0
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:22:40 GMT
Server: TinyURL/1.5

and show us the resulting real URL as a tooltip. Also, a number of results would be cached, as we tend to go back on our tracks quite frequently. It would be useful in IM, IRC and email clients, which is where we tend to see them most.

Is there something similar already out there? I couldn’t find it in a quick search.