g1smd - 7:09 pm on Apr 27, 2011 (gmt 0)

I prefer short URLs sans parameters, with some sort of record number at the start of the path.

www.example.com/12345-this-cool-widget

It is then easy to redirect all of these to the right place:

example.com/12345-this-cool-widget
example.com/12345-the-old-name
example.com/12345-an-old-typo
example.com/12345-some-random-junk
www.example.com/12345-this-coo
www.example.com/12345-this-cool-widget/a>
www.example.com/12345-this-cool-widget?random-appended-junk
www.example.com:80/12345-this-cool-widget,

even the bare URL like this:

example.com/12345

that someone posted to twitter.