Techcrunch reports that the federal government has launched its own link shortening service. Not to be outdone by its hundreds of competitors, like the outgoing tr.im, the original Tiny URL, or the currently chic bit.ly, government employees can now use the oh so svelte http://go.usa.gov.

So http://recovery.gov gets “shortened” to…http://go.usa.gov/liO. Wait, that’s not shorter at all, it’s two characters longer! YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.

Granted, this isn’t a bad idea…in theory.  First, who knows how long any

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