The CAPTCHA process is famous for preventing spam and helping translate books. So, Jeffrey Augustine went back to third grade arts and crafts to create the Dream Captcha. It’s inspired by Native American dream catchers and the “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” used by many online sites to inhibit automated software from posing as you or I. Say goodbye to CAPTCHA nightmares and hello to sweet dreams.
Unlike the MLB or NHL, the NFL understands the importance of a perfectly good game of sports playing on the Internet. Without cable or satellite, you’re going to be missing a lot of games or making plenty of trips to your local sports bar. But now, thanks to the webs, you can sit at home in your underwear with a bag of chips and watch games for free.
This is a joint venture between NBC Universal and the NFL, so don’t expect any ESPN Monday Night Football or FOX broadcasts. Still, any football is good football.
If you’ve ever signed up for a bank account or Paypal account online, you’ve probably noticed how they deposit a small amount of change into your checking account for verification purposes. It’s usually under 50 cents and doesn’t amount to much. But what if someone programmed a way to automate the enrollment process with these sites and used false names to generate multiple accounts
That is exactly what one Michael Largent from California did. Largent set out to scam Google, E-Trade, Paypal and a slew of other companies for their cash. In the end, he ended up netting over $50,000 from verification deposits. If he hadn’t used false information, Michael wouldn’t be facing wire fraud charges. Currently, he’s free on bail and there’s no word if he has been ordered to pay the money back.
So earlier this month, we let you know about a little website called The Something Store. In case you missed it, you pay $10 and receive a random, unknown item in the mail. A simple, yet, genius idea.
Well, I placed my order on May 16th and it came this morning. The box was small as shit, as you can see in the above picture. After taking a piss and getting some coffee, I decided to open the box. What did I find? Hit the jump to find out…
Why spend a ton of money on eBay for someone else’s crap when you can blow $10 and be done with it? That’s probably the concept behind SomethingStore.com, a new website that will send you something for ten bucks.
So far, customers have gotten items like a gourmet coffee maker, a wall clock, kitchen knives, a pair of designer jeans and lots of other wacky items. Nearly 7000 orders have been placed so far and I for one am intrigued. I’ll order an item today and we’ll see how it turns out. Shipping is included, so if you have a little extra cash sitting around, it might be worth checking out.
I just ordered a Domino’s Pizza actually and while the whole Pizza Tracker idea is cool and all, I don’t really like the eyesore of the cheesy (pun intended) graphics flooding my screen real estate. I like to keep things simple, like my pizza. No BaconMozzzerellaTacoLovers Pie for me! Just a plain or one-topping pie in an ordinary box will do the trick.
Seems someone else felt the same way and decided to use the programing language of the gods, Python, to convert Domino’s Pizza Tracker for Terminal use. All you need to do is download the Python script and run it. Fill out the necessary information and voila, you’re tracking slices Linux/OS X/UNIX-style. About as exciting as a bento box with album art on the packaging to some. Awesome for pizza aficionados like myself.
Most GPS units come with a stock robotic voice which dictates directions to you in an awkward and mispronounced fashion. YourPND is a service which allows you to record your own voice, and than download the audio files to use for your GPS device.
So far, the service only works for TomTom devices, but so many people who use GPS already use TomTom anyway. Garmin, Mio, and MyGuide are expected for the future. It’s cool because now I can hear the voice of the one person I truly love all of the time. I have such a sweet tenor tone and a face made for radio. It would be a shame to let my voice go to waste. — Andrew DobrowÂ
As if you are not sick of Samsung’s propaganda in real life yet, the company is opening an island on the online virtual space Second Life to promote their phones. And since Samsung was trying to tell us how thin those phones they developed with Softbank were, they got this phone-raining effect on. If you would like to use these cool looking phones in Second Life, you would need to answer some of the easy questions… in Japanese. Well, at least you don’t have to pay. More pics after the jump.
The PSP has built-in WiFi, you can browse the internet with it but online gaming is not officially supported. We only get to set up wireless sessions with users ad-hoc in a radius of 10 meters, wouldn’t it be great to be able to play with your friends in other countries just like on large consoles? Well, a group of enthusiasts have set up this Xlink Kai online gaming network, so that you can connect your PSP (and DS) game session with players around the world via your PC. We’ve started hearing that the network would get set up a year ago, but nobody has really tried that out on the PSP until PCI started selling the first WiFi adapter that officially supports Xlink Kai. Some guy in Japan has brought us a review.
News update for all of you gamers who love all things Tolkein. Some information has been released regarding the Lord Of The Rings Online game. This game has the pontential to go great places, considering the rabit fan base that it will start off with. Take a look at the quotation here and you will learn some pretty interesting facts regarding pricing:
Turbine, Inc. and Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY) today announced the details of the revolutionary pre-order Founder’s Program for The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar.
This exciting Founder’s Program rewards all players who pre-order The Lord of the Rings Online with special $9.99 monthly subscription pricing, early access to the game (beta version), character roll-over and unique in-game bonus items. Players can become a Founder by pre-ordering the title at www.lotro.com/preorder or at retail stores nationwide beginning February 1, 2007. This limited-time offer is exclusively available to pre-order customers.
The Lord of the Rings Online Founder’s Program* offers players two different membership options: Only $9.99 per month subscription price! OR Just $199 for a Lifetime Membership!
– Nik Gomez
Official LOTR Online info released [Destructoid]
