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Do You Know Where George Is?
Have you ever seen money stamped with "wheresgeorge.com?" What started as a joke project about money circulation soon revealed fascinating truths about currency movement and more!
Where's George? is even an important tool when it comes to tracking the transmission and spread of flu epidemics.
Where's George? is even an important tool when it comes to tracking the transmission and spread of flu epidemics.
What's the buzz? Tell me what's happening!
your guide to "Where's George?"
- What Is "Where's George?"
- Have You Encountered George?
- Mint Tees
- All About George and His Whereabouts
- Here's the "Where's George" bill I encountered
- Collectible Coins
- George's buddy, Alex
- ...when just a week later...
- Who Else Is Having Fun With George?
- WWW.WHERESGEORGE.COM
- George Gossip
- D'OH!.. Homer Simpson Quotes
What Is "Where's George?"
the money, the markings, the movement
'Wheres George?' is a website that tracks the natural geographic circulation of American paper money. Its popularity has led to the establishment of a number of other currency tracking websites, sites that track other objects?such as used books?and it has been used in at least one research paper to provide statistical patterns of human travel in the United States.
As of November 18, 2009, Where's George?'' is tracking 162,097,761 bills totaling more than $878,038,826.
Have You Encountered George?
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All About George and His Whereabouts
Tracking the circulation of money has gone from an interesting idea to a serious research tool. It turns out that the money circulation data collected by the Where's George? site is extremely accurate when it comes to modeling how a flu pandemic might spread...
- Directory of Where's George-Related Pages
- Where's George? (www.wheresgeorge.com) is an interesting web site that tracks the travels of dollar bills through circulation. Its users, most of whom mark their bills with the web site address, follow the adventures of their money after it leaves their hands.
- Where's George? Meetup Groups - Where's George? Meetups
- Meet other local fans of The Great American Dollar Bill Locator. Check out Where's George?
- Where's George: Where's Your Money Been? - AppScout
- Where's George, a fun little Web service that's by no means new or fancy, can help you find out where the dollar bill, five dollar bill, or even hundred dollar bill actually came from before you got your hands on it.
- "Where's George?" Goes from Web Diversion to Disease Research Tool
- A team of theoretical physicists in German and the United States has used data from a website that tracks the movement of U.S. currency to come up with a mathematical model that could help predict how epidemic disease is spread.
- Predicting Flu With the Aid of (George) Washington
- The best way to track the spread of swine flu across the United States in the coming weeks may be to imagine it riding a dollar bill.
Here's the "Where's George" bill I encountered
Collectible Coins
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George's buddy, Alex
...when just a week later...
Wow, a week later, and at a different neighborhood farmer's market, and I found myself with a $10 also being tracked by Where's George! I think someone must be "releasing" them in the area.This one isn't as marked up, I guess 'cuz it's not really George, but it was really cool to find a second one so soon after finding out these things existed.
Who Else Is Having Fun With George?
bloggers report back on their bills
Fetching RSS feed... please stand by"You have found a WILD GEORGE Track my journey around the USA Please enter my serial number at"
Here's my favorite link:
George Gossip
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- spirituality spirituality May 4, 2009 @ 12:38 pm
- Great lens - you've been blessed by a squidoo angel :)
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- dannystaple dannystaple Apr 7, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
- Not seen anything like this in the Uk. It is both a cool idea, and slightly worrying in that it has privacy implications.
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- tandemonimom tandemonimom Jan 6, 2009 @ 3:47 pm
- My kids and I marked bills for a while, but haven't done it in about a year. It was disappointing how few of them were reported after we released them, but a few were. We'll have to get back into it! 5*
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- Tiddledeewinks Tiddledeewinks Aug 20, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
- Nice lens idea. I got one of these at a gas station in resort town-Old Orchard Beach,Maine and tracked it from Texas! I had forgotten about them until I saw this lens. I'll watch for them again now!
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- chefkeem chefkeem Aug 17, 2008 @ 5:34 am
- I'll keep my eyes peeled for one o' these. Fun lens idea. 5*s
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