A million-dollar home page
A 21-year-old in England is hoping an idea he had in the middle of the night will help pay his way through college.
Alex Tew, who will start his studies at a university in England at the end of the month, has come up with a scheme to make himself an easy $1 million dollars. Tew built a Web site called the The Million Dollar Homepage, which he is selling off to advertisers, pixel by pixel. The page is broken up into 10,000 100-pixel squares; Tew sells the 100-pixel squares off for $100 each, or $1 per pixel.
Currently, Tew looks to have sold close to 100 of the blocks--with squares pointing to online poker sites, dating services and even a yarn and sweater shop in Maine. So even if his clever site never yields the million he's hoping for, it's already making big returns for some teensy tiny ad space.
Jennifer Guevin is assistant managing editor of CNET News. She focuses on science and green tech. But she also makes the occasional contribution to CNET's kitchen gadgets blog or writes about the latest Web distraction. Once a week, she takes the mic as host of CNET's Daily News Podcast. E-mail Jennifer. 
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