---
title: "painfully metalicious"
date: 2006-11-28T19:05:22-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2006/11/28/painfully-metalicious/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides, delicious, webdev, md5]
---

# painfully metalicious

I find this sequence of URLs almost as funny as [the blonde joke][tbj]:

   * [http://del.icio.us/url/?url=http%3A//del.icio.us/](http://del.icio.us/url/?url=http%3A//del.icio.us/)
   * [http://del.icio.us/url/9a81616a6fdc3fd6cd432f0c3cce9b5c](http://del.icio.us/url/9a81616a6fdc3fd6cd432f0c3cce9b5c)
   * [http://del.icio.us/url/b944c5e478a1e32dc71af722951498e3](http://del.icio.us/url/b944c5e478a1e32dc71af722951498e3)
   * [http://del.icio.us/url/3ddb685e75e1bd74363748355dc30d2d](http://del.icio.us/url/3ddb685e75e1bd74363748355dc30d2d)
   * [http://del.icio.us/url/e2ca7a0b59613504f3b0658a1b519b33](http://del.icio.us/url/e2ca7a0b59613504f3b0658a1b519b33)
   * [http://del.icio.us/url/27209b794819a0dce0e3e970be2d1789](http://del.icio.us/url/27209b794819a0dce0e3e970be2d1789)
   * [http://del.icio.us/url/cd0b24de440fe51b2797b125a33b60e0](http://del.icio.us/url/cd0b24de440fe51b2797b125a33b60e0)
   * [http://del.icio.us/url/102ab8bb6becc7d3eac87f4c2707d0a9](http://del.icio.us/url/102ab8bb6becc7d3eac87f4c2707d0a9)
   * [http://del.icio.us/url/aec6c8de3d189f18cdd85798f36bf716](http://del.icio.us/url/aec6c8de3d189f18cdd85798f36bf716)

I'm also happy that del.icio.us uses MD5 hashes to normalize this situation.

*Update*: I also see that [Kottke](http://www.kottke.org/06/11/delicious-will-eat-itself) beat me to the meta.

[tbj]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/12/23/like-a-blonde-ouroboros