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September 18, 2007

 

Tuesday Links: Power, ReCaptcha, Junot Diaz

  • Experience "THE POWER OF BOOKS"
  • You know those annoying puzzles where you type in the letters so the computer knows you're not a computer creating a fake account or sending spam? A group from Carnegie Mellon is using these "Captchas" to help digitize books. ReCaptcha is a special type of Captcha that displays words that book digitization software is having trouble deciphering. So, by letting the computer know you're not a computer, you can help some other computers digitize our books.
  • I missed Junot Diaz's appearance at the Free Library of Philadelphia where he read from his new novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but Season Evans was there.

- C. Max Magee @ 7:36 AM ~ comments: 1 ~ Links to this post

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Check out an exclusive interview with Junot Diaz about his life before becoming a successful writer in Slice, a new literary magazine, which is available now. www.slicemagazine.org
# posted by Blogger Celia @ September 23, 2007 10:46 AM
 

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