English Headwear Blog They have compiled a great list of nutty captchas caught in the wild. The best is certainly the Russian one, as many others have agreed. Captchas are particularly interesting to me since it looks like I’m going to be working with Dr. Luis von Ahn next semester on the GWAP project (games [...]
Archive for 8 August 2007
Crazy CAPTCHAs
Posted: 8 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: CAPTCHA, computer science, crazy, human computation, humor, research
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Ok, I feel the need to plug a Facebook app. First of all, most apps suck. They chew up space on your profile and are largely useless because for them to be any good you need like a dozen friends using them, which never happens. There are a few exceptions, like Books, which is cool [...]
Howmsoever
Posted: 8 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: etymology, language, linguistics, weird words
Now here is an interesting word. The Language Log has a few examples of its usage and a couple of theories as to how it came about. The first is that the archaic word howsomever, which was an alternate form for however, changed through metathesis to howmsoever. I’m more inclined to the theory that it [...]
