by Paula Neal Mooney A curious thing happened the other morning after I bought stuff from a local cafe, mostly 'cause I need to break a 20. The cashier handed me my change, which included the one dollar bill posted below with "WheresGeorge.com" stamped all over it. I may have run across one of the estimated 103 million bills stamped with WheresGeorge.com before, but seeing as though I'm all into webmastering and viral marketing nowadays, this time I actually looked up the site. Turns out WheresGeorge.com wasn't a political site about the man I voted for, but a site that tracks bills as they float across the country and beyond. Fine and dandy -- I was more concerned with whether or not this viral form of marketing a website's URL on currency is legal or not -- because if it is, I'm all over it! Hank Eskin, the WheresGeorge.com brainchild pictured above, says people tell him all the time that defacing dollar bills is illegal. But he claims it is not, as ...
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