Bar Stories

What happens when a local screenwriter steps up to the bar to tell a few stories? Bar Stories is a rib tickling, crowd pleasing, gin soaked, seat of the bar stool ride through movies, pop culture, and fiction.

Category: Storyteller

■ 02 July 2009 | 5:53 AM

RECAPTCHA

We've all seen those funny little boxes with the crazy lettering on our favorite websites like Facebook and so on. These little boxes are responsible for sorting the humans and the computers and keeping out bogus comments.

Turns out those boxes are called CAPTCHA. And now with RECAPTCHA the boxes have a purpose ---helping to digitize books. You can read about RECAPTCHA here.

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