I have been recently asked how to create one of these web form verifications things (CAPTCHA images) which will confirm that a real human is sending your form, rather than a bot sending you ads for Viagra and other happy pills.
Archive for April, 2009
At my local grocery store, they have a unique setup allowing you to pick up your grocery purchases at a drive-thru, where the groceries are loaded into your car for you. (Old and/or lazy people love it, but I digress!) Each of the little bins they put your groceries in has a three letter code. [...]
How to make a faux iced latte for a few pennies which will rival what you get at Starbucks for $4.
The Shit List: Top 10 Shittiest Gifts… Only the shittiest gifts imaginable!
Is it just me, or are all these verification things swearing at me?
See also previous post, FAIL Blog Contribution.
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Yahoo! Domains charges for domains you have transferred to other services, if you do not “cancel” the nonexistent service.
“Lessons in Adsense Sensitivity”, or, “How Not to Get the Dreaded PSAs (Public Service Announcements).” As a webmaster, I learned some good lessons recently about Adsense’s over-sensitivity to certain words. Immediately upon publishing a page about mesothelioma, a specific type of cancer, the Adsense ads were replaced with PSAs. No matter what I did, it seemed that I was getting the PSAs.
Here is my contribution to the FAIL Blog.
This code really came up in one of those verification boxes on a site I was recently browsing. After I took the screenshot, I refreshed the code about fifty times to see if some smartass programmer did it on purpose, but all the other codes were the normal [...]
