Category: Money
Arizona Voter Reward Act.
Initiative in Arizona to increase voter turnout by entering each vote into a $1 million lottery drawing.
Post date: Monday, July 17th, 2006.
Hyperinflation.
Zimbabwe to issue $100,000 bank note that will allow its people to buy a loaf of bread with one bill. (via)
Post date: Thursday, June 1st, 2006.
Federal Excise Tax.
US Treasury Department has repealed a tax on long-distance phone calls that was created to fund the Spanish-American War of 1898. (via)
Post date: Thursday, May 25th, 2006.
One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge.
Foundation offering a million dollar reward for anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal event. (via)
Post date: Thursday, May 18th, 2006.
Old debts.
Britain to make final payment on money loaned from the United States during World War II.
Post date: Thursday, May 11th, 2006.
Making cents.
Zinc popularity has increased the cost of manufacturing a penny to 1.4 cents each. (via)
Post date: Monday, April 24th, 2006.
Pseudo-electroplating.
Scientists discover a 2000-year-old coin that was counterfeited using a process thought to be unknown to metallurgists of the day. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, March 28th, 2006.
TextPayMe.
Service that lets you send and receive money by text messaging with your cell phone.
Post date: Friday, February 24th, 2006.
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Post date: Tuesday, February 7th, 2006.
Fee-mail.
Email service will charge companies money to send email to help identify spam. (via)
Post date: Saturday, February 4th, 2006.
Biobullets.
Poisoned microcapsules have been developed to eradicate the zebra mussel.
Post date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006.
Workers comp.
Insurance underwriter wins lawsuit against her employer for tripping over a stack of claims forms. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 27th, 2006.
Ambergris.
Rare whale vomit discovered on Australian beach is worth over $1 million.
Post date: Monday, January 23rd, 2006.
Cryonics movement.
Rich people, dubbed cryonauts, are creating trust funds that they can reclaim when their bodies are unfrozen and reanimated in the future. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 23rd, 2006.
Prince Mongo.
Florida millionaire claims that he is 333 years old and is from the planet Zambodia. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 19th, 2006.
Lockout.
Scottish inmates will be freed one weekend a month due to prison overcrowding.
Post date: Tuesday, January 17th, 2006.
The little cam that could.
British speed camera on pace to average $10,000 an hour in fines for speeding drivers it catches.
Post date: Wednesday, January 11th, 2006.
I do. No, I do.
California couple auctioning parts of their wedding on eBay to help finance honeymoon.
Post date: Friday, January 6th, 2006.
Novel idea.
California college bookstores offering students textbook rental service. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 5th, 2006.
Angel soft.
Oregon church raising money by selling toilet paper.
Post date: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006.
No such thing.
Bid on a completely invisible Christmas tree, fully decorated. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, December 21st, 2005.
Know when to fold ‘em.
British man bets that he will die and loses.
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
Reach out and rob someone.
New Zealand man tries and fails to rob a bank by phone.
Post date: Friday, December 9th, 2005.
GWIE.
Swiss group believes that they can make Google eat itself. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 8th, 2005.
Shirtless guy.
California man offering ad rental space on his chest and back.
Post date: Tuesday, November 8th, 2005.
All your BS.
Chinese ‘corporation’ headquartered in $150/mo rental apartment tenders $450 billion bid for Exxon.
Post date: Tuesday, November 1st, 2005.
The Force is with them.
Cable channel buys TV rights to all six Star Wars movies. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 19th, 2005.
Fanatic.
Canadian man buys $2500 worth of Serenity movie tickets and hands them out to people.
Post date: Friday, October 14th, 2005.
Shafted.
Swedish sperm donor ordered by court to pay child support.
Post date: Thursday, October 13th, 2005.
Jedi mind trick.
Hypnotist in Moldova has stolen ‘tens of thousands of dollars’ by hypnotizing bank tellers.
Post date: Wednesday, October 12th, 2005.
Honest crook.
Man robs coffee stand then pays for coffee with the stolen money.
Post date: Tuesday, October 11th, 2005.
Keep the change.
Bank of America offering new debit card program that rounds up purchases to the next dollar and invests the difference in a bank-matching account. (via)
Post date: Friday, October 7th, 2005.
Sin city.
Bankrupt New Orleans may have to start releasing prisoners.
Post date: Friday, October 7th, 2005.
Will I get it?
Brazilian psychic is claiming that the United States owes him the $25 million reward for providing the hiding place of Saddam Hussein.
Post date: Friday, October 7th, 2005.
Payroll deduction.
British banker borrowed £7 million from his employer.
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
Ghost man.
Emaciated Indian man has spent his life roaming villages ‘scaring the daylights out of people‘. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
No ghosts allowed.
Indian brothers fined for keeping a pet ghost and bringing evil to their village.
Post date: Monday, October 3rd, 2005.
Deductible broomstick.
Witches in Amsterdam get a tax break for the money they spend on training, magic potions.
Post date: Wednesday, September 28th, 2005.
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