Archive for November, 2004
Don’t see Alexander
Worst movie ever. Slower than Master and Commander, longer than Troy, and crappy acting on the part of our Britney Spears-nailing Mr. Farrell. A hitler channel documentary on Alexander would have been better.
I wish I’d been more tired. I could’ve slept through it.
“Conquer your fear, and I promise you, you shall conquer death!”
Yeah, right, Colin. [...]
Giglet (etymological musings)
Ran across this word in my word-a-day email list today.
I’d have guessed that it had something to do with the “giga-” root — as in gigabyte or gigawatt, meaning a billion.
Of course, there’s “gig”, meaning a short term contract. Maybe a micro-contract?
Then there’s the usage in giggle — is a giglet a little joke?
But, [...]
biz idea of the day
instant PageRank:
+ Create an “enter to win” promo — giveaway latest pop-culture gadget (e.g., an iPod)
+ Cost of entry is one link on a public site anywhere — explicitly define how the link should look, e.g., “http://fuery.com”; “http://www.fuery.com” is different to google.
+ Create an engine to parse/verify the link on the target page.
+ In the [...]
