Links

[jack]

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004880.html

It comes to something when you hear breaking news by reading the language log :)

javascript:if(document.referrer) document.location = document.referrer;

This one is cool. Obvious, but I never thought of it. It takes you back to a page the current page was linked from (ie. its referrer), so when you've forgotten why you opened a tab (say, because the link was phrased as a witty comment that only makes sense when you've already read the page), you can just go and see.

http://www.jimwegryn.com/Names/Surnames.htm

Comments on surnames, but quite funny.

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Here http://cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com/365107.html :) Eg. if you follow a link from an lj post into a new tab, and browse around that site and get lost, you can hit back infinitely many times to get back to where you started browsing it, whereas if that took you back to the previous page too, you can accidentally end up with two copies of the post, and accidentally reply to them separately or something.

On balance having the full history is probably more useful, but it's not strictly better :) Perhaps a good feature (which no doubt exists somewhere) which would make them more similar would be if "back" distinguished between "links between the same subdomain", "between the same domain", "into a new domain", "new links entered in the bar directly".