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Friday, August 15, 2008

Surprise! YOU have been volunteered...

Did you know that most likely, if you use the internet much, that you have been volunteering to help the digitization process of many of the nation's libraries?! You know those annoying little boxes of scrambled letters that you have to decipher at many websites to prove that you are a human? Well, the scientist that invented that technology decided that it wasted so many hours of human life, that he teamed up his technology with the book-digitization project, so that when you now see TWO words to unscramble or decipher, one of them is most likely a word that the computer digitized but didn't understand, due to aged or printing irregularities!!!

Read the whole story at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93605988

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