There’s a strange meme on the ‘net. Alex Tew, a 21 year entrepreneur, came up with the idea to sell ad space on his home page at a dollar a pixel (or rather, block of 10×10 pixels). He’s selling one megablock of ad space, on his Million Dollar Home Page. Hats off for Alex. One dollar for vanity and a fool born every minute. Can’t lose. But for every good idea, there will be copies. Jason Gunther, 23 year old college grad, will molest his car — a rather nice Dodge Viper — for each ad dollar he makes. For a buck, he will scratch it. For five, he will drill a hole in it. And for a hundred extra bucks, he will get "a hot chick" to do it.

What Jason may not understand here is that to get a million bucks, he’ll need to make a million key scratches to his car, video it, and post it on the net. That’s a whole lot of work compared to Alex’s thing up there, which basically runs itself. And after you got 5200 in damages to your new and shiny car, what’s the fun of buying the remaining 994800 dollars to an already damaged car. Sorry Jason, this ain’t the way to get rich (and if you do anyway, i tip my hat and publicly eat my words). But hey, it gets worse. Here’s your chance to cover a furry arse with pixel blocks ("at one cent a pixel"). Ungh. And if you want to create a million dollar home page, but can’t, you can just go and buy the script for fourty-nine ninety-five. Or if you just don’t care, you can do so (or rather, you can not-care, as in "you can don’t") on the Zero dollar home page. Now that’s better.