I hate to reply to myself, but... I was just thinking about that a bit more and I think it could actually be made quasi-useful. If the hashing worked with dict

I hate to reply to myself, but... I was just thinking about that a bit more and I think it could actually be made quasi-useful. If the hashing worked with dictionary words, you could use it to make unreadable, unmemorizable URLs both readable and memorizable. Each new url could be assigned three random dictionary words, e.g.: mediumsizedurl.com/acute_recovery_cable (Thanks to http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/RandomWord/Random... for the random words) And that'll give you something that's both medium-sized and readable. Without going into obscure words we can easily get 20,000 of 'em, so that's 8e12 possible combinations of three words -- shouldn't be an issue.