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Thursday, December 29, 2005
 
The Million Dollar Homepage

Reuters has a story on this web page, a student's fundraising idea: he made a 1000x1000 grid and sells ad space on individual pixels -- or, more realistically, blocks of them, so they'll be visible. The result, as the story says, is:
Tew's home page now looks like an online Times Square, festooned with a multi-colored confetti of ads.
Like this:



But my favorite detail is the fact that some of the ads are for other pixel-selling websites, including the deceptively-named knockoff site www.milliondollarpixelhomepage.com. Ah, people.

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