Greg Leuch

fuckCAPTCHA, an open-source alternative to the spam prevention & evil humanization of human brain cycles for corporate pet projects. Add this to your site!

The founder of reCAPTCHA created their tool to prevent spam and help humanize OCR scanning errors, later noting that he had “unwittingly created a system that was frittering away, in ten-second increments, millions of hours of a most precious resource: human brain cycles.”

In Sept 2009, Google bought reCAPTCHA, assumingly to help with the work of their book scanning project.

So why support them when you can reaffirm your efforts of enforcing the fuck corporate culture by typing it in for every time to need to verify yourself as a non-evil human.

Includes hearing impared audio captchas!

With recent mistakes by companies and organizations not knowing how to properly censor online documents, its easy to see why people believe the text they can’t see can’t be read. And with computer illiterate people like Rush Limbaugh, it is easy to befuddle them with the apperance of censored text on the web pages they commonly visit.

A playful experiment in “censoring” a web page by hiding text and images behind blocks.

See it in action and get the code: http://fffff.at/ctrlfd-censoring-the-interwebs/

Attn: Mr. West

Where Are You, Yeezy?

jamiew:

Do you need help getting off that Tumblr crack? Facebook? Gmail? It’s hard. Steve Lambert is here to help.

SelfControl is a new Mac application that will completely block access to a list of websites for a specified period of time.

FAT Lab, itsyaboy!

As a beta tester, I can say it works extremely well. Setting it for four hours of no Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, URLesque, email, Google Reader, and others prevents unecessary distractions when designing or developing.

jamiew:

Kopyfamo allows you to easily add one of four prestigious watermarks to your photos, instantly giving them credibility.

(above: Evan Roth wearing Associated Press)

via F.A.T. Lab