Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. Site also has a video with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. picked by 2manyusernames 6 months ago

This is the first crucial use for Amazon's Mechanical Turk program I've seen. picked by jaxomlotus 2 years ago

Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it.
Choose from thousands of tasks, control when you work, and decide how much you earn.
I have personally made 37 cents this week!
(Over $70 to date, though) picked by thephrog 2 years ago

The Romans had it down: “Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates”. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

The men, a Turk and a Syrian, were armed with a knife and claimed to have a bomb. One hostage said they claimed to be members of al-Qaeda, another said they spoke Arabic and wanted to fly to Syria. picked by kxmk 1 year ago

Kurnaz, an ethnic Turk born and raised in Germany, went to Pakistan in late 2001 at age 19 to study Islam and wound up in Pakistani police custody. It was three months after 9/11, and Kurnaz says the U.S. was offering bounties for suspicious foreigners. Kurnaz says he was "sold" to the Americans for $3,000 and brought to Kandahar as terrorist suspect. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago