The transition to a smart, modern, fancy URL system is complete. This is how it works: every item has a title called a “slug.” The slug of *this piece* is “Slug-Transition-Complete.”

Now, your basic operations are read, print, and comment.

So, the URLs work like so:

http://firsttube.com/read/Slug-Transition-Complete
http://firsttube.com/print/Slug-Transition-Complete
http://firsttube.com/comment/Slug-Transition-Complete

This requires no tweaking of Apache (other than permitting .htaccess files). There is no mod_rewrite going on here. It’s all in PHP. Huzzah.