See Joshua Schachter on URL shorteners and the likely scenario of our coming to rely on them and embed our histories in their compressed little strings:
The most likely, of course, is that we don't do anything and that the great linkrot apocalypse causes all of modern culture to dissapear in a puff of smoke. Hopefully.
Hence this tiny, self-controlled service. It doesn't solve the opacity problems that can be inherent to URL shorteners, but I get to keep the database and it will work as long as I keep forking over a few dollars a year.
bundl.me runs on Shaun Inman's lessn.