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Monthly Archives: December 2007

galv.in

Friday, December 28, 2007

Inspired by Adam’s repository of silly domain names (verbo.se, foot.ie, explic.it, …) and others like pix.ie, I am now the proud owner of galv.in. Unfortunately jam.es was not available.

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Lazy St. Stephen's Day

Thursday, December 27, 2007

It must be the laziest day of the year. I hooked up the Nintendo Wii and downloaded a few old NES games:

Excite Bike
Browsing through the titles, I was hit by nostalgia for the excite bike theme tune. Turns out the game is not very exciting. Don’t think I played it much to [...]

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The Dark Knight Preview

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Via Fence I found this preview for the new Batman movie: “The Dark Knight“. Looks really promising – very much a follow-up to Batman Begins as opposed to “a new Batman movie”. I was saying just yesterday how much I love the atmosphere in the films directed by Christopher Nolan, and how great [...]

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Idea for a Scam

Friday, December 21, 2007

Here is an idea for a variation on one of those premium phone number scams:

Register a premium phone number, one of those super expensive ones where you set the price – €99 per minute or however high the phone company allows you to go
Print the number onto a “How am I driving?” sticker and stick [...]

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