My inner librarian is strong. Perhaps too strong. I have a large collection of photos from Flickr that I use for my desktop wallpaper. A couple times each week, someone comments on my desktop and wonders where I got the photo. So, I was pondering the problem of reverse engineering the garbage-strings of numbers that Flickr auto-generates for a filename to get a link back to the original photo. Some quick Googling led me to this tidbit. And some a quick PHP scripting resulted in this:

Flickr Filename to URL Converter

Filename (file extension optional):

Feel free to paste in your own Flickr filenames to find the URL of the original image. The script will send you directly to the original image page.

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