If someone out there is dying to talk to me and doesn't already have my number, they could use the info below to dial me up for 25 cents a minute!

notforprophet 1-888-MY-ETHER ext. 01660566

that's 1-888-693-8437 ( I hate it when someone mnemonics a number.)
(hint: click the card above for even more info)

Ha.  Ether is a new website with a business model that permits arranged anonymous calls between parties for 15% of a fee set by the recipient party.  Here's how they describe how it works:

How it works
We all have something valuable to say. Whether you're an accountant, a computer expert, a blogger, or a good gossiper, you can earn money selling what you say to others over the phone ...

1. Get your Ether Phone Number.
   
2. Set your rate.
   
3. Take calls only when you want to.
   
4. Spread the word.
   
5. Phone me the money.

The drawback if you want to make a call to a seller (like me) is that you have to setup an initial account with Ether yourself - either through their website or over the phone during your very first call - and provide a credit or debit account to charge (in this case, 25 cents a minute). 

hrmm...now why would someone want to pay to talk to me?  

Expert computer technology and computer security advice?  Nostradamus-like psychic insights into the future?  Phone-sex?  To learn about the many dark-n-dirty-Xanga secrets I harbor in my head but won't commit to public blog?  ha.

afterfthought, another use: 

Setting up temporary anonymous access at a purely token fee, say 10 cents for 2 minutes and then additional minutes free, so that you can talk to someone for a certain period of time (say a couple of days, 10 cents each call) and then either abandon the account thus terminating your availability to them or provide them your actual phone number.  Useful, perhaps, in very short-term business relationships where privacy of both parties is desired or essential.  Or useful in getting that "first" phone call from a potential romantic interest without immediately committing to sharing your permanent number with him/her.

note on usability: I was able to set up multiple different accounts with the same phone number, thus permitting abandonment of any one of them in either of the two afterthought scenarios above as a trivial concern.