CAPTCHA. You’ve all seen it on web sites where they want to read an image and then type the letters to ensure you’re a person and not a computer program. Well, a couple of guys at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University figured out how to make this annoying process into something that actually benefits humanity. Recaptcha.net helps digitize books from the Internet Archive.
March 2008
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I’ve now been ‘online’ in one way or the other for nearly 20 years, starting the first time I connected to a bulletin board system in Dec. of 1988. I’ve played, chatted, searched, published, expressed options, made friends, argued, campaigned for office, experimented, learned, even entered the truly bizarre world of online dating. What’s it all leading to? Well, if you recall the battle-cry of the Borg on STTNG you’ll already know ‘you will be assimilated.’ We Fell Fine is just about the only proof you’ll ever need. As far as interesting Internet experiments go it’s not completely lame. And I want you to want me is slightly surreal. Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar are sickly creative.