URI’s being bothched

I would really REALLY love it if WP didn’t a) seem to remove the first = from links posted in the comments section. I’m not sure why it does that, but if you take a look here you’ll see that Bjørns URI is botched. and b) if it would automagically take long URI’s and make then short, like so: http://binarybonsai.com/…n-contracts/