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A simple picture of "watching eyes" keeps people honest

newscientist.com — In a finding that will have office managers everywhere scurrying for the photocopier, researchers have discovered that merely a picture of watching eyes nearly trebled the amount of money put in the coffee room box.

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  • Cookieman123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Rightclick->Adblock Image
  • casbeebc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Has anyone considered maybe fake eyes on paper makes the British drink even more coffee?
  • joshlrogers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Man all I see around me anymore is the whole "Big Brother is Watching You".....
  • 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13coffee room box?
  • skifreak107, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Trebled?
  • DiamondIce, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Triple would have been a better choice as it's more commonly used.
  • woodsja, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11it means to increase threefold, like a treble hook for fishing.
    http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=trebled
  • warmonger48, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'm going to move to the outback of Australia. Where there aren't any other humans for 100's of miles. Have we all gone insane? Isn't this one of the signs of the Apocalypse?
  • portilaj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The eye of Sauron, explained.
  • ilitirit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Ingenious, albeit rather intimdating.
  • wupike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5*insert Jeff Goldblum is Watching You Poop image here*

    http://jeffgoldblumiswatchingyoupoop.ytmnd.com/
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4place a hundred dollar bill on sidewalk, with picture starring at it.
    Watch as your money disapears.
    watching eyes are no where as good as a locked soda machine.
  • threadbare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They fail to add the warning. "Do not use a picture of Chuck Norris' eyes, as they will cause internal bleeding."
  • armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, this'll work great until Capt. Morgan visits the break room.
  • DiamondIce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Edit to my above comment (digg really needs to debug the comment editing)

    Not saying the treble is a bad choice, I'm all for learning new meanings to words I already know.
  • ilitirit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Heh. I just realized it's ingenious *because* it's intimdating.
  • fabio1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder if I put one of these images in our proxy server "Access forbidden" pages will intimidate users that surf for pr0n during working hours....

    nah, probably won't work against porn...
  • bennybertow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe those little eyes following the mouse cursor in KDE could improve my working habits...

    *closing all browser tabs*
  • sremick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://www.dopmagazin.com/elementi/20051217_044547big-brother-is-watching-u.jpg
  • anonymonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, I guess people think the picture indicates they are being watched by other means. It's like those "neighborhood watch" signs.
  • vidbidness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Trebled is the UK version of "tripled."
  • treak007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0so people believe that the picture is going to tell on them
  • thegcinfo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they probably are hoping someone is watching them surf pr0n LOL
  • anonymonk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1ROFLMAO!!

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