It?s not exactly the offer of a lifetime: this company pays you $250, and all you have to do is have one of their computer chips installed in your hand so it can track ?how you use your computer mouse?. We wouldn?t go for it. You wouldn?t go for it. But guess what? a hundred people signed up for the bogus implant offer within a few days. Doh!Not only did 100 people sign up for the implant, but the site was scoured by unknown officials from America’s leading corporations and military components. The most active visitors to the Web site included unknown persons from Microsoft, IBM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Air Force, Navy, NASA, Intellimark and American International Group (AIG). Intellimark is a high-tech ?applications? company that works with the military and also is involved in the electronic patient record. AIG is a ?world leader in insurance and financial services.? The site?s owner, Bill Cross, listed these organizations as the most active visitors because they spent the most time at the Web site, and visited every page. For instance, 83 visitors came from the IBM Internet connection, resulting in 737 page views, lasting almost 5 and1/2 hours. There were 18 visitors from ibm.com, resulting in 283 page views, lasting nearly 1 and 1/2 hours; 12 visitors from Microsoft.com, 319 page views, lasting nearly 2 hours. The Air Force: 17 visits, 247 page views, 2 hours. The Navy: 15 visits, 193 page views, one hour. NASA: 24 visits, 193 page views, 1 and 1/2 hours. Boeing: 14 visits, 192 page views, under 1 hour.The site received some 6,800 visitors in 48 hours. Cross said he couldn’t always distinguish between serious and humorous visitors. He said hoax was merely part of a project to create a comedy Web site.?If this project had been done not as a spoof but rather as a genuine hoax by someone less benign than myself, I am thoroughly convinced that it would have led to a cataclysmic event,? he said. Cross has since decided to pull the plug on his web site, www.idchip.com, and has announced officially that it was all a hoax. Some Christian fundamentalists visiting the site hit the roof. ?Are you people completely stupid, mindless, or just simply evil?? asked one angry e-mail. ?Taking a chip, as an implant, is called “taking the Mark Of The Beast”. Period. It is taking Satan’s mark, of ownership. Which obviously you have already done. Enjoy your time in Hell, eternity.” You have been warned. That could be the most expensive $250 you ever spent.