Links Du Lapin #27
You know those annoying, indecipherable Captcha things that are supposed to prevent spam but never really do? Well someone made a game out of them, so now at least they’re good for something. Try your hand at protecting yourself from the Captcha invaders here.
July 13, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Last night I saw a show that mentioned that Captchas are now being used to help digitze old texts that can’t be digitized by standard Character Recocgnition software. They are also using it to digitize the entire archives of the NY Times. It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes, since roughly 200 million captcha are filled out each day.
Here’s more about it: http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html
July 14, 2009 at 7:57 pm
ngxq was my favorite.