KittenAuth. Prove you’re human by clicking the kittens. I want Blogger and Yahoo and the rest to implement this now. (This is actually a very good and sensible idea.) (via)
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
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Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
Awwwwww.
Now I want a kitten :)
Is this some sort of inter-webby in-joke or something, cos it’s going right over my head.
Sorry Gary. I often erroneously assume this stuff is obvious.
When you sign up for services like Yahoo mail or post comments on Blogger you often have to solve a CAPTCHA puzzle by identifying the letters in a mussed up graphic, the idea being a computer can’t solve it but the human mind can. This prevents spammers and evil folk from automatically signing up. See Wikipedia for more, naturally.
The problem with CAPTCHAs is they can be hard to solve if you’re slightly dyslexic or have visual problems. This KittenAuth idea, while on the surface quite silly, is a better one because pretty much anyone can identify a kitten on sight. And it features kittens, which is always a good thing.
That is brilliant.
I quite often find those CAPTCHA doo-dars difficult to desipher, myself despite not having any sort of dyslexia or visual problems.
… he says, spelling ‘decipher’ incorrectly.
cool! Thanks for that Pete, it all makes perfect sense now. I find those captcha things quite troublesome sometimes myself. You can’t go wrong with kittens really.