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Digitus1337 writes "Wired has an article up about a new online service known as 'FunHi.' You sign up and join a community, and give your fellows gifts, but as Wired has reported, 'these are not ordinary gifts. They're purely digital: little flashing icons of cars, planes, diamond rings and other virtual representations of expensive items included in messages members send each other. And FunHi members don't seem to care that the real money they're spending on the gifts, at prices as high as $30 an item, is going straight into the company's coffers." This leaves just one question unanswered... why didn't I think of this?" It sounds like an April Fool's Joke, but then, so does online trading of Everquest loot.
Hmm, well Brittany Spears managed (with well chosen/lucky choices of advisors I'm sure) to parlay a few contacts, good looks, and mediocre singing ability into a multimillion dollar a year industry.
Bush managed to use his family name to fail in the oil business - in Texas, poorly perform at owning a baseball team, before being forced to do something that relies almost wholly on connections and little to no talent - a politician.