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Check out these articles:

http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/0319-csun-m3m/slide1-0.html

http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/

http://burbia.com/index.php?q=img_assist/popup/2668

I will never, ever live in an allotment with rules like this.  Darn it, if I want to put up 10 foot inflatable animals then I will.  And if those animals happen to be life-size rhinoceros…well, then so be it.

You know what Captcha is – even if you didn’t know what it was called.

Captcha are spam filters – designed to keep bad users away.

Here is an example of a captcha form:

That example is a good one. I hate the ones that have the letters so jumbled that I have to try 5 or 6 times in order to get it right.

There were some points to this article that are very important:

1. Server side form validation.  While it is great to have the nice little JavaScript alert boxes come up when a field is missed, you cannot rely on those completely.

2. Log everything.  I log absolutely everything on my sites. It is almost scary to see the kind of information you can get.   But figure out if people are trying to use your form and are not able to, then debug from there. This includes another point of the article – timing the user response.  If it takes the user 5 minutes to enter the captcha characters something is obviously wrong.

You can read the rest of the article here: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/05/14/captcha-alternatives/

I love to buy domain names and then do absolutely nothing with them.

Out of boredom I decided to look up silly domain names to see if any were taken already.

I was surprised by how many are indeed registered:

But good news, whats for dinner is available:

Have you came across any silly domain names that are actually taken – and if so is the content any good???