ReCAPTCHA Me

Here's a weird kind of fame. Brady Redfearn sent me this reCAPTCHA he got recently when logging into his Live Journal page.

I use reCAPTCHA myself on the Contact me page. It's a cool project from CMU that uses user-power to type in unrecognizable words from scanned texts while discouraging robots and spammers. I think I remember a Laporte in Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers. Maybe they're scanning that?

Comments

[optionshiftk]

Leo, you have one more thing to add to your business card or resume: "Featured on a recaptcha"

[AaronAsAChimp]

Are you kidding me? That should *be* his business card :P

[The Windows Fix]

Interesting Leo...soon you'll be spamming people too somehow. The price of fame.

[Joe]

Small world huh? lol!

[jonbrown]

Wow Leo, that's funny! Seriously, make that your business card...it's pretty unique!

[fool]

You have a whole county named after you in Indiana.... :)

[seotest]

its good, because it allow the unauthorized to make some comment

[perumal]

ggff

[redfearnb]

As the discoverer of this interesting thing, I have since found several Laporte's in older works, but like has been mentioned, its also very possible that it was added as a dictionary word into their database by a grateful fan. Either way, I've found myself almost doing Leo's family tree out of curiosity!

[sex toys]

thanks!