Here is a pretty cool twelve-minute talk by Luis von Ahn. If you hate typing in those squiggly "words" you see all over the Internet, he may make you feel better about them -- you're contributing to a massive and worthwhile project. Pay attention near the end for the part about the NY Times archives. Staggering.
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Hats off to the geek who dreamed this one up. Now how about something to do while we're in a half hour queue waiting for tech support in Indonesia to come on line and answer a question.
Already done. That's why Microsoft put Solitaire and Minesweeper on your computer.
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