Is it possible to generate custom bit.ly URLs through their API?

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Published on 2010-06-07T16:39:01Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 16:42 UTC
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I would like to be able to generate custom bit.lys (http://bit.ly/thecakeisalie type things) through their API. This does not appear to be possible, but I thought I'd check; does anyone happen to know otherwise?

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