Recent examples abound of $28,000 grilled cheese sandwitches and other miraculous pattern driven events.
Build a communal image/photo processing website, but with a difference -- scan posted images for artifacts that look like your favorite cult figure or face on Mars, and alert the premium subscribers so that they can post the image on ebay-- theircompetitor, Nov 23 2004 (?) What [tc] is talking about http://www.kron4.co...606027&nav=5D7lTSoo [Worldgineer, Nov 23 2004] (?) I tell ya it was crying. http://www.halfbake...y_20of_20Croissants [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Nov 24 2004] (?) Searching for friends in photos http://www.livescie...09_technovelgy.html [theircompetitor, Oct 17 2006] Finally, we caught one http://www.youtube....watch?v=Gj3qesTjOE8Or is it a time traveler? [theircompetitor, Oct 30 2010] William Gibson has preheated a piece of software called "Seperated at Birth", which figures out which public figure you most resemble. It seems the celebrity recognition lobe of the brain works better than raw facial memory.-- normzone, Nov 23 2004 You could hook it up to webcams all over the place and monitor those for passing aliens, too. Especially when images get grainy in low light, you might pick up a ghost or two.-- jutta, Nov 24 2004 thanks, jutta, how did that "witch" get in there? :)-- theircompetitor, Nov 24 2004 I have to try hard not to take a picture of those pesky aliens and their vehicles.-- sartep, Jun 19 2005 random, halfbakery