The Sheep Market

Jeff Bezos mentioned a creative use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk service in his recent interview with Michael Arrington on Techcrunch. Mechanical Turk allows people to pay others to perform specific tasks online. Well this guy, in his wisdom, decided to have 10,000 (left-facing) sheep drawn, paying $0.02 per sheep, then sell stamps in blocks of twenty sheep (a "score or jiggit", apparently).

Those sheep are wild—check 'em out! No. 7373 in particular seems to have been grazing on the right kind of mushrooms:



Don't you just love this crazy ol' web?

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