Many of you have see the colourful or distorted words around the net which you have to enter to prove you are really human and not some machine trying to take over the world. These are called Captcha's. The boys over at reCAPTCHA have hit upon a novel idea whereby all this wasted energy can be put to good use.
"reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher." [more]
Pretty cool eh? Now if there were only a way of getting tea made without all the energy wasted i'd be a happy man.
An expertly assembled video of this monday's climbing activties by our very own dempo.
