Rest In Peace Mr. Farmer
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Philip Jose Farmer passed away in his sleep this morning at the age of 91. Farmer was one of the first authors I found when delving into science fiction for the first time. I remember reading Dayworld during summer break in middle school, leaning against a tree while my mind was filled with vivid images [...]
ReCAPTCHA’s so cool…
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008My afternoon has been spent trying to stop spam in Biblio.com’s forums. Stopping spam is usually a thankless job. Today it was fun. ReCAPTCHA is an interesting take on proving you are human. It displays two words from pages that could not be OCR’d. One word is known and the other is not. Each user [...]