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5 Ways reCAPTCHA’s are anti-Love
Nerdy Post Warning
Anyone that has ever signed up for anything online is familiar with the goofy “CAPTCHA” things where you squint to type in weird characters proving you’re not a robot. CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” TOTALLY geeky, right?
Anyways, here are five funny ones that I saved while registering this past week for work. They basically show how much love hurts.
1. Has Gushiest:
It’s Heaven! You fall for the person. They’re the perfect combination of mushy and gushy…
2. Weep and Seek:
…but then they leave you…
3. The Loveless:
and you’re heartbroken.
4. Stoniest Cranberry:
Thanksgiving sucks.
5. Specialist Dung:
And your life is poop.
The end.
Now on a practical note…
Google bought this company to help with their Google Books program. So don’t do this if you want to help Google.
But did you know that you can leave out the spaces and numbers and characters and just type the letters you see?
So for obscure CAPTCHAs like this, you can just simplify it:
Alas. I am a geeky romantic nerd.
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Facebook 3.0 for iPhone
It is amazing what drives our society—what rocks our world.
Millions of people have been waiting for a single application from the Apple App store. Finally, it comes. How come this kinda stuff means so much to us? Well, because we like it.
Facebook intrigues me. I use it, I like it, I hate it, I love it, and I neglect it all at the same time. Sometimes my FB friends annoy the heck out of me, sometimes I’m actually interested in what they have to say. One thing is certain, it has totally shafted the traditional form of communication.
There is an interesting article in the WSJ about this whole phenomenon. It is really harsh on the relational aspects of FB. However, I think it fails in one area: FB isn’t everything. We use FB to augment real life interaction. It adds a deeper dimension to friendships we really would not keep up with in previous decades. My buddy from 5 years ago would disappear into thoughtful reminiscence if it wasn’t for FB.
Now Facebook is once again on the headlines with it’s newly released iPhone app update. I’ve downloaded it just now. I dig it. But it’s not my reality. Nooo, someone just rang the doorbell and I’m going to blow my nose before I answer it since I’m sick as a dog. That’s reality.
—me
