Contributing Editor, ITworld June 3, Sure, it may sound silly, but there's something inexplicably appealing about earning an honest dollar without putting on pants. Why do you think I became a writer? It's no surprise, then, that more and more people are happily moving toward the telecommuting -- aka the "honest, honey, I was going to shower this morning" -- approach.

Of course, the Web's workforce isn't all business as usual; there are plenty of odd jobs filling the world's cyber-cubicles, too. I tracked down six such money-making endeavors.

Some of them are simply unconventional; others are downright bizarre. But all of them are perfectly legit, and all of them are things you could be doing this very minute. Yep, you read correctly: Seeking out smut can earn you shekels. But not in the way you might expect.

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Let's just get this out of the way now: You can't earn cash by clicking over to whatever sort of weird stuff you're into. You can, however, make a few bucks by directing your prurient interests to a more productive place.

Founded in , the agency works with online businesses to help them handle random jobs -- you know, like looking for nudie pics. So how does it work? A business reaches out to Biewald and explains what kind of work it needs done.

Biewald then turns to his workforce -- driven by online staffing agencies like Amazon's Mechanical Turk and LiveWork -- to find the right people for the job.

Sometimes I don't want to tell anybody what I saw! They aren't limited only to porn surfing, either: The agency also handles numerous other tasks such as address verification, data sorting, and social media analysis.

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By JR Raphael Contributing Editor, ITworld June 3, Sell Your PC and Other Gadgets. Dirty duty on the front lines of IT.

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