Roger Ebert has a pretty active Twitter account with often interesting links. However, I noticed that links to his personal Sun Times blog sometimes have ugly or bizarre URLs. This one was especially bad, with the page being not-quite-HTML-code for four nonbreaking spaces (emphasis mine, obviously):
blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/strange-3/nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-my.html
I wasn’t sure what point I was going to make with this, other than it’s bad SEO practice to have poorly-named URLs … not to mention it’s almost impossible to tell anybody that link short of of copying and pasting. So let me switch gears to what’s actually on that page:
It’s an interview with a hand model — and she’s pretty cocky about them (almost comically so) — whose hands have never seen the light of day for 15 years. She doesn’t do anything with her hands — no cooking, cleaning, sports, gardening … not even opening windows — and she wears gloves everywhere she goes. It kind of blew my mind; check it out at Ebert’s ugly-URL page.
And of course, that interview only reminds me of George Costanza’s similar modeling career.