The Law of Barnum

“There's a sucker born every minute.”
“—David Hannum” (and not P. T. Barnum)

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/

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