I’ve started grabbing screen-shots of the challenge-response CAPTCHAs I see as I browse the Web. I’m only saving real English words, not the randomised alphanumeric strings. Mostly it’s stuff from the reCAPTCHA Project, which I’m a big fan of. Here’s what I have to date: (if you can’t see anything below, blame WordPress and Vodpod: set is here on Flickr)
Why am I doing this? Not entirely sure – I have some vague notion of using the lexicon to create poetry, but I write worse poems than a Vogon so that probably won’t fly. Maybe I’ll create a contest, award a prize to the most beautiful piece created using or inspired by the collection. Either way, it’s a hobby :)
Thanks to Gavin Wray for the tip on using Vodpod to generate the slideshow above, it’s ridiculous that WordPress choose not to let you embed Flickr sets directly – shame on you guys!
