Penny Arcade on Book 1.0
Thursday, April 30th, 2009With the kindle’s buzz and iTunes ever expanding world, I often wonder if booksellers will be using this tactic in the future. It is a tongue in cheek kind of comic, but in all seriousness, what will the future generations think of shelves? Or is this why the minimalist interior design is taking off. No [...]
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 [...]
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 enters [...]