Inhumane URLs (and why Oxford University fails, again.)
Uniform Resource Locators, commonly known as URLs are the address system for finding things on the internet. Unfortunately, they’re often not very humane. Can you imagine having to type this lovely example into your browser (much less trying to remember it!) http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PRLTAO000100000020200502000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes Yikes! (This, by the way, is the URL of our new physics paper) … [Read more…]