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digg question

Thursday, March 22, 2007

When you register at digg, it ask “Are you human? (Sorry, we have to ask)” at the bottom of the registration page. Looks like it assumes the answer is yes if you can parse alphanumeric pages in the image.
I gues the new Turing Test is the ability to parse an image and extract […]

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I’m a wanted man in Toledo?

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

My dad sent me email this morning that contained a link to an article in the Toledo Blade.
I’ve only been to Ohio once and was involved in neither crack cocaine-related nor voter-registration fraud-related activities. The picture *does* look disturbingly similar to me. I have witnesses that I was in San Francisco at the […]

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R.J. Reynolds and American Spirits

Saturday, May 10, 2003

Tonight I was over at a friend’s house and he was smoking Natural American Spirit cigarettes. The packaging included some copy that explained “Many of the flavorings in cigarettes manufactured by the major tabacco companies are used to mask the poor taste profile of reconstituted sheet tobacco - we use only whole leaf, additive-free […]

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morning typo, high-grade oddness

Tuesday, May 6, 2003

I made a typo this morning and navigated to http://www.lazslo.com/.
I clicked around for a bit & was intrigued by what I saw -

snow
i don’t know
etc.

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