When FireFox 3.0 (or was it 2.0 even?) added the new location bar, I was initially not so happy with it. But I got used to it pretty quickly and now it saves me a lot of typing when I want to visit my favourite sites. Typing one letter is usually enough. I thought I’d write down the whole English alphabet and what the location bar shows first for each letter. I think this sums up my current interests pretty nicely. Except some sites in this list are not really my favourite, they just happen to start with an uncommon letter.
Update: Oh man, I’m so behind the times. Seems that this was a meme in 2006.
A is for http://adventuregamers.com/
B is for http://www.box2d.org/forum/
C is for http://city24.ee/ (real estate portal)
D is for http://dzone.com/
E is for http://eurogamer.net/
F is for http://frictionalgames.com/forum/ (still checking every now and then to see if someone solved the mystery)
G is for http://google.com/ (surprise!)
H is for http://hansa.ee/ (although they are now SwedBank, I still use the old URL out of habit)
I is for http://www.idlethumbs.net/ (in it’s current incarnation an awesome video game podcast by Chris Remo, Jake Rodkin, Nick Breckon and occasionally Steve Gaynor)
J is for http://jazz.net/
K is for http://kv.ee/ (real estate portal)
L is for http://localhost:8080/ :)
L is also for http://listofdomainnamespointingtoidlethumbsdotnet.info/
M is for http://mail.google.com/
N is for http://news.google.com/
O is for http://www.offworld.com/
P is for http://planeteclipse.org/ (and some other planets follow)
Q is for http://www.infoq.com/
R is for http://rockpapershotgun.com/ (the best of PC-focused games journalism)
S is for http://scala-lang.org/
T is for http://twitter.com/
U is for … wow. Nothing interesting for U
V is for http://villane.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
W is for http://wired.com/
X is for http://xkcd.com/
Y is for http://youtube.com/ (another big surprise!)
Z is for http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation (awesome video game reviews by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw)
What’s your URL alphabet?
