When I was in Korea last month, on one of my (many) trips to the food court, I picked up a value meal from Burger King. One of the dollar bills that I got back as change had a stamp on it: www.wheresgeorge.com . I was intrigued (though I kept forgetting about it when I’d take my laptop outside at night to check email / post my blog for the day. I finally rediscovered this $1 bill in my wallet a couple days ago, and took the time to check out the site yesterday.
Well, the bill that I had gotten there had been floating around Korea between the various military camps for at least a year. The person who entered it before me had marked it in June 2006. Here’s the link for that bill.
The premise for the site is pretty interesting: it’s there to track where US currency travels around the nation and around the world. It’s a fun idea! I promptly entered in all the bills I had in my wallet and wrote the website in red ink (carefully on the margin, so as not to harm the bill) on all of them. I don’t carry around a whole lot of cash most of the time, but what I do I think I’ll track in here. Of course, they say that only about 11% of bills entered get “hits” later on… but if you keep marking them, 11% should eventually turn something up, right?
Both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal have written about this phenomenon, among others.
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