BS: Where is George - track yer money

Subject: BS: Where is George - track yer money
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 11:57 PM

Apologies if someone has posted this previously. It is kinda fun and I wanted to share it:

www.wheresgeorge.com (I would put in a link, but everytime I try to type in a forward slash or apostrophe my stupid computer brings up the "Find" function!)

I found the addy for that website written on a one dollar bill, apparently by someone in Albuquerque, NM.

Have fun. Canadian money is trackable, too.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Where is George - track yer money
From: Kaleea
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 12:00 AM

I have done that before, & tracked some dollars literally around the planet. Wild to think about where Geo can travel.

Subject: RE: BS: Where is George - track yer money
From: Amos
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 10:08 AM

Where's George.com.

There ya go.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Where is George - track yer money
From: bobad
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 10:54 AM

You still have one dollar bills in the U.S. - how outré.

Subject: RE: BS: Where is George - track yer money
From: Alba
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 11:54 AM

In some cases bobad that is ALL some people have in the US..!
That too is outré.:)
Thanks for the link Kat and Amos.
Geo sure gets around huh!
Love and Light
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Where is George - track yer money
From: GUEST,G
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 12:02 PM

Not to be a cynic but how can a one dollar be tracked around the country? The serial number would have to be scanned and recorded.

I am not aware of any vending machine that does this.

A good way to collect email addresses, spread a virus, etc.

Nothing personal, Kat, it is a clever thought.

Subject: RE: BS: Where is George - track yer money
From: bobad
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 12:09 PM

"In some cases bobad that is ALL some people have in the US..!"

I was alluding to the fact that many countries have gone to 1 and even 2 dollar coins on account of the reduced purchasing power of the dollar and the economic benefit of the longevity of coins. In Canada we will probably even be using 5 dollar coins soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Where is George - track yer money
From: Alba
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 12:34 PM

I know that bobad:) I was being oh..forget it.
I was agreeing with you though..really.
Best Wishes
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Where is George - track yer money
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 01:59 PM

Apparently people input the serial numbers, it could have been in many places between entries. There is no scanning.

Subject: RE: BS: Where is George - track yer money
From: GUEST,open mike
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 02:12 PM

this is a site where you enter the serial number of a bill
and then mark the bill in some way (there are rubber stamps
to dothis with) that alert others who see it to also post
the location where it was found and or spent (this requires
you to fold, spindle and/or mutilate the currency) but it is
interesting to track it. if you go to the site your questions
will be answered.

(and KAT...if you cut and paste using the mud cat link maker
it seems you can put a blickie without using the individual
keys...)

Subject: RE: BS: Where is George - track yer money
From: Amos
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 02:57 PM

You can also just put one of your pocket's dollars into it with series and serial number and see if anyone else has ever entered it into the database; if so it will show you a map of the bill's travels. While it is cute, it has no real use right now. But I would mention that the advent of microscopic RFID tokens is right over the horizon, and there is no reason the Feds couldn't institute a huge cash-eavesdropping network once they could print RFID right into the bill; every time that bill passed one of their sensors -- for example, they could require one in every ATM machine -- it would add to the database and you would soon be able to analyze the cash economy's ebb and flow by abstracting the larger population patterns from the travel of the individual bills.

This would open a real can o'worms -- just the kind of thing Bush would love to do to protect the citizens of our great country from terrorists, I am sure.

A