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                               The Law of Barnum
                                        
> “There's a sucker born every minute.”
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> “—David Hannum” (and not P. T. Barnum)
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I'm looking at the Million Dollar Home Page [1], where each of one million
pixels are for sale for $1 a piece ($100 minimum in a 10×10 block) and I'm
simply appalled. The student has so far sold over 120,000 pixels.

I'm not appalled that people are stupid enough to buy pixels for a buck a
pop. I'm not appalled that Alex Tew (the student running the site) has made
over $120,000 since August 26^th. I'm not even appalled by the garish looking
picture of the million pixels.

No, I'm appalled that I didn't think of this first!

[1] http://milliondollarhomepage.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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