24th march 2006

paint my pixels! for cash!

as much as i envy/admire the guy who came up with the million dollar homepage, he really does have a lot to answer for.

the latest one? paint my pixel. or to give it's full name, 'send me cash and i'll stick a 10px by 10px coloured gif on my site'.

what angers me about this thing - and some of the other that have come after million dollar homepage - are the statements they use to justify these things. paint my pixel tells us we can "own a piece of the world's first internet painting". gosh! and, it's actually an amazing experiment in the power of 21st century mass media - "can thousands of people all over the world work together to create a single painting, using only small blocks of colored pixels?"! wow, whatta guy!

at least send the suckers a shirt saying "i painted a pixel and all i got was this lousy t-shirt. oh, and a 10x10 coloured gif".

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