Monthly Archives: May 2006

Online Workers paid 2¢ to draw Sheep Facing Left; 10,000 in All

I found this entertaining and amusing, so here it is. The Sheep market is a collection of 10,000 sheep created by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Each worker was paid $ .02 (US) to draw a sheep facing left.. read … Continue reading

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Psychic gives readings on MSN

For $100 (£54 for us Brits) you can have a psychic reading on Instant Messenger. The lady at www.psychicgirl.com claims to be able to do this successfully. Presumably she can deduce which users want a reading without them contacting her … Continue reading

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Bad workman blaming his tools

The shift from bblog to WordPress will hopefully kill two birds with one stone (don’t worry no real birds will be used in this experiment). The bblog has been saturated with spam and isn’t a natural partner (as far as … Continue reading

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