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Readable URLs matter (to me at least)

Attention web developers; I never ever want to see this in your URLs every again:
?u=123&id=456&s=l&preview=1&blahblahblahblahblah
Sometimes it might be required to throw some GET parameters into the mix (pagination and search come to mind) but most of the time it is not necessary.  Make urls that are human readable:
 http://www.rssmeme.com/story/17881/similar/
What might that URL point to? To me [...]