reCAPTCHA

Just saw this in undyingking's journal and thought it was a really neat idea.

There's a project scanning old books where the OCR often can't identify the word correctly.  They're using the power of massed real people by making their hard to read words available for all those places where web sites need to distinguish between spambots and real people.

http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html

They also have a way for you to use their scheme to list your email address on web sites without getting spammed to death.

Dictionaries

I think I'm going to have to get a new Scrabble dictionary.

I like to print my Scrabulous turns out on paper, so I can take them away and study them at leisure.  If I think of a good word, I check it in my Scrabble dictionary.

But there's a lot of different Scrabble word lists, and mine has a lot of differences from the one Scrabulous uses.

I'd found a wonderful position to add an 's' onto jerking and play a seven letter word from that.  Sadly although jerkings is allowed in my dictionary, it's not in TWL.  I'd say about a quarter of the words I check are valid in one, but not the other.  It's getting very frustrating.