Archive for September, 2008

reCAPTCHA Turns People Into Distributed Processors

Friday, September 5th, 2008

reCAPTCHA is awesome and I’m shocked I haven’t heard about it before. This is an absolutely brilliant example of distributing a little bit of work to many people in a socially productive way. Whomever is behind this is a genius and deserves a firm handshake.
In a nutshell, reCAPTCHA provides a free (!) […]

Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheddar

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Wow, as Tom McMahon put it, “my heart attack just had another heart attack“.

Telescopic Text

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Joe Davis has an excellent exercise in exploration and expansion of concepts. You must check out Telescopic Text.