Clips and Links http://www.clipclip.org/chao/clips/tag/brilliant http://www.clipclip.org/chao/clips/detail/1086 brilliant, funny Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:07:52 -0000 http://www.clipclip.org/chao/clips/detail/1086 <div>Clipped by <a href="http://www.clipclip.org/chao">chao</a> to <span class='c2_activity_link'><a href="http://www.clipclip.org/activity/view/24/share-funny-clips">share funny clips</a></span></div><hr /> <div> <div id="newsShell"> <div id="newsContent"> <div id="contentShell"> <div id="contentPane"> <div id="storyBody" clipisparent="true" style="caption-side : top;color : rgb(17, 17, 17);cursor : auto;direction : ltr;empty-cells : show;font-family : verdana,sans serif;font-size : 13.5333px;font-size-adjust : none;font-style : normal;font-variant : normal;font-weight : 400;letter-spacing : normal;line-height : 18.9333px;list-style-image : none;list-style-position : outside;list-style-type : disc;text-align : left;text-indent : 0px;text-transform : none;white-space : normal;word-spacing : normal;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <!--Start Snippet --> <p> <b>If you have an envious streak, you probably shouldn't read this.</b> </p> <p>Because chances are good that Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is more clever than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet.</p> <p> <!-- Search Engine Component --> Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, the tiny dots on the screen that appear when you call up his home page.</p> <p>He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page, called, logically enough, www.milliondollarhomepage.com, while lying in bed thinking out how he would pay for university.</p> <!-- IMAGE CODE --> <a href="http://news.com.com/2300-1024-6012447.html"> <img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/ne/p/2005/1228milliontease135x127.jpg" border="0" height="127" alt="Million dollar Web page" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" width="135" /> </a> <!-- END IMAGE CODE --> <p>The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A square of 10-by-10 pixels, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100.</p> <!--End Snippet --> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <style type="text/css">div#c2_inner_1072 p{ margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; font-size: 1em; } div#c2_inner_1072 a { color: rgb(4, 3, 173); text-decoration: none; } div#c2_inner_1072 a:visited { color: rgb(102, 0, 102); } div#c2_inner_1072 a:hover { color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; } div#c2_inner_1072 a img { border: 0pt none ; } div#c2_inner_1072 p { margin: 0pt 0pt 10px; }</style> chao