Tuesday, June 19, 2007

looking for another girl

1. From Foreign Policy: a list of the world's worst currencies. Poor Somali shilling--no one takes it seriously.
2. Two funny sites: passiveaggressivenotes.com, which collects notes and signs that are passive-aggressive (or sometimes just aggressive-aggressive), many of them written by roommates. And the office sign project.com, which collects funny signs from workplaces for the world's amusement.
3. reCAPTCHA is a cool project that harnesses the power of users (and their superior intelligence) to aid with digitization projects. These are the little anti-spambot captcha thingies (you know...), but instead of nonsense character strings, you are identifying a word that OCR software can't identify in digitized books. Plus, their website is pretty.

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