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Man buys drugs with Monopoly money

BoingBoing reports,

A Wichita, Kansas man was apparently beaten up by a drug dealer after the man paid for crack cocaine with Monopoly money. It’s not clear why it took the dealer so long to realize that the multi-colored bills were not legal tender.
For the uninitiated, here what Monopoly money looks like, and here’s a normal American 10 Dollar bill for reference.

Pective outage

Pective is temporarily down due to a Google App Engine outage.

Update: It’s back now.

The actual size of the Apple Ipad.

The actual size of the Apple Ipad.

The distribution of self-reported monitor sizes of Pective users.

The distribution of self-reported monitor sizes of Pective users.

2009 was a decent year for Pective, with 220K+ visitors and 1M+ pageviews.

2009 was a decent year for Pective, with 220K+ visitors and 1M+ pageviews.

Hotlinking disabled

Due to high bandwidth usage, I’ve disabled hotlinking for high res images - they will now display this image. You can still hotlink to thumbnails.

Please use any free image hosting service instead.

If you know the dimensions of something but need to visualize it prior to buying, Pective is what you need. Chris Pirillo

The Amazon Kindle 2 is “thinner than the iPhone”.

Commenters now have names.  All the old comments default to “Anonymous”

Commenters now have names. All the old comments default to “Anonymous”

The Palm Pre is pretty compact at 101 x 60 x 17 mm.

The Palm Pre is pretty compact at 101 x 60 x 17 mm.