Comments on: Most misleadingly-spelled seafood name evar http://torley.com/most-misleadingly-spelled-seafood-name-evar Home of the musical Dream Journal. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:37:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Patchouli Woollahra http://torley.com/most-misleadingly-spelled-seafood-name-evar/comment-page-1#comment-47065 Patchouli Woollahra Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:28:07 +0000 http://torley.com/most-misleadingly-spelled-seafood-name-evar#comment-47065 Well, it's pretty random material that reCaptcha uses. one word that they're reasonably or totally sure of, and another that they're not quite sure about. It's usually best that you get both words right, though on occasion I've accidentally misspelt one word and still obtained verification. What's up with that? Well, reCaptcha is basically the front end of a massive crowd-sourced effort to read books that conventional OCR can't parse properly. This happens in a lot of old books, especially pre-loved ones with all the attendant pencilled reader's markings (crossouts, bracketing). So when you verify with reCaptcha, you're helping to make sense of books. :D Yayzerama! P.S. I see a new movie has just come out that screams Parody. Look up "Pineapple Express", Torley :p Well, it's pretty random material that reCaptcha uses. one word that they're reasonably or totally sure of, and another that they're not quite sure about.

It's usually best that you get both words right, though on occasion I've accidentally misspelt one word and still obtained verification.

What's up with that? Well, reCaptcha is basically the front end of a massive crowd-sourced effort to read books that conventional OCR can't parse properly. This happens in a lot of old books, especially pre-loved ones with all the attendant pencilled reader's markings (crossouts, bracketing). So when you verify with reCaptcha, you're helping to make sense of books. :D

Yayzerama!

P.S. I see a new movie has just come out that screams Parody. Look up "Pineapple Express", Torley :p

]]> By: Amd Karu http://torley.com/most-misleadingly-spelled-seafood-name-evar/comment-page-1#comment-47064 Amd Karu Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:44:55 +0000 http://torley.com/most-misleadingly-spelled-seafood-name-evar#comment-47064 Ewww. I hope you do more blog posts soon. Then I won't be confronted by that when I visit your blog. xD Ewww. I hope you do more blog posts soon. Then I won't be confronted by that when I visit your blog. xD

]]> By: Torley http://torley.com/most-misleadingly-spelled-seafood-name-evar/comment-page-1#comment-47028 Torley Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:17:17 +0000 http://torley.com/most-misleadingly-spelled-seafood-name-evar#comment-47028 @Just Some Guy: Goodness gracious! What an appropriate way to verify your comment here. Alas, my reCAPTCHA is "dis-Lawson"... no idea what that means, but I could stretch and mention that "Lawson" is a Japanese convenience store. Never seen Phalliclams there, tho. @Just Some Guy: Goodness gracious! What an appropriate way to verify your comment here. Alas, my reCAPTCHA is "dis-Lawson"… no idea what that means, but I could stretch and mention that "Lawson" is a Japanese convenience store. Never seen Phalliclams there, tho.

]]> By: Just Some Guy http://torley.com/most-misleadingly-spelled-seafood-name-evar/comment-page-1#comment-47020 Just Some Guy Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:16:51 +0000 http://torley.com/most-misleadingly-spelled-seafood-name-evar#comment-47020 Quack (ouch!) Quack (ouch!) Quack (ouch!) Ironically, the Captcha for this comment was "gallant wood". Quack (ouch!) Quack (ouch!) Quack (ouch!)

Ironically, the Captcha for this comment was "gallant wood".

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