Sunday, August 13, 2006

Sell Paris Hilton and buy God

Johannes recently directed me to a fairly new website. One could say it's a stock exchange game but instead of real stocks you buy and sell words, short phrases or names. The value of the words are based on how many times they're mentioned in articles from 3000 websites. For example"Kofi Annan" is so far today's best word. I've been sitting trying to find the next big word and work out patterns in the price movements. "Hurricane" has so far been a disappointment. I guess that's a good thing... It's quite fun. It's also a magnificent waste of time so I'll have to try to be careful and not get drawn in completely. There's also a French version of the game that I might check out later. Try it at your own risk...

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