reCAPTCHA

[watervole]

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.

Comments

[elmyra.livejournal.com]

Genius.

[sugoll.livejournal.com]

Kinda like porn monkeys in reverse, then...

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

Doing this is strangely addictive. If only they'd get rid of that wiggly line they put through all the words, it makes some letters almost impossible to recognize.