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Where's George (Washington)?
I must be living under a rock or something.
I'm at the local Best Buy yesterday, picking up a DVD (the 2-disc collector's edition of Serenity, which was going for $6.99), and when I received my change, I noticed something stamped on one of the $1 bills I got back. Stamped in red ink in a circle around the Series letter was this:
"Track this bill. www.wheresgeorge.com"
So, I go to the site, and as I expected, you enter the series year/letter and serial number of the bill, and it gives you a history of where the bill's been (at least, so far as anyone who's bothered to enter info about a particular bill). You even get a map tracking the bill's journey.
According to the site, it's been around in one form or another since 1998, which begs the question: How have I not come across this until now?
Weird.
I'm at the local Best Buy yesterday, picking up a DVD (the 2-disc collector's edition of Serenity, which was going for $6.99), and when I received my change, I noticed something stamped on one of the $1 bills I got back. Stamped in red ink in a circle around the Series letter was this:
"Track this bill. www.wheresgeorge.com"
So, I go to the site, and as I expected, you enter the series year/letter and serial number of the bill, and it gives you a history of where the bill's been (at least, so far as anyone who's bothered to enter info about a particular bill). You even get a map tracking the bill's journey.
According to the site, it's been around in one form or another since 1998, which begs the question: How have I not come across this until now?
Weird.
I think I've had bills turn up across the country, a couple of years later. It's a ton of fun!
On another note (so to speak), there's also a Canadian counterpart to the site you just mentioned. :)
(Anonymous)
Kevin Lauderdale:
There's a book version of this: BookCrossing.com . Yes, you get a special code number and affix it to the inside of a book, then and release that book into the wild (leave it on a metro train, in a Starbucks, etc). Generally you also put a 3M sticky on the front saying, "Free book. Not lost." I found a BookCrossing book at Shore Leave two years ago. Glad to know I wasn't the only person in the program.