From Elitaste

A CAPTCHA is a program that can generate and grade tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot. For example, humans can read distorted text as the one shown below, but current computer programs can’t. The term CAPTCHA (for Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper and John Langford of Carnegie Mellon University. At the time, they developed the first CAPTCHA to be used by Yahoo.

I was looking for some tickets on Ticketmaster yesterday when I was presented with a CAPTCHA. I caught a glance of the text to the right of the CAPTCHA and was kinda blown away

From Elitaste

About 200 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that’s not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into “reading” books.

So they use CAPTCHAS to digitally translate text from old books? How noble of them. I guess Ticketmaster isn’t all bad. Read more about it HERE

Spotted this on Daniel Merriweather’s blog and had to repost. Goes from rock to hip hop to jungle. It’s crazy.

Crazy. I was in 9th grade living about 10 minutes from the Petersen Museum. Video is pretty boring but it’s interesting to see what people were wearing, what songs they were playing and think about the fact that shortly after this was taken, BIG was gunned down outside. Creepy.

Spotted at NahRight. At the end he goes “there, I said it”. So funny.

This is prolly the gayest yet funniest thing I’ve ever seen. I can’t tell if it’s a joke. Like, if this was on SNL it would be a joke. So weird how context changes everything.

Obviously fake but really funny

Thanks Wale.

Just heard about Charlie Sloth today. Not sure I really get it but it’s kinda funny. Watch all the episodes HERE

Shouts to Nick Catchdubs for this one. “it’s like punk rock, except its a car”