Moo! The Musings of a Plaid Cow

Regarding the [LifeHacker][0] post on [LongURL Expands Short URLs So You Know Where You’re Going][1]:

> I appreciate the ability to expand a shortened URL, but I think in the end, they are bad for the internet as a whole. I don’t trust that the sites that are providing them will be around for any length of time, so I’m not planning to store anything sensitive in them.

> Is there an open source project available that will allow me to run a similar service on my own web server? It wouldn’t be as short, but it would be something that I could trust to work.

[0]: http://lifehacker.com/
[1]: http://lifehacker.com/5048472/longurl-expands-short-urls-so-you-know-where-youre-going#viewcomments