Posts tagged book
Jun 16th
Ted Dekker’s Skin is the story of Wendy, a young adult who has escaped from a cult. Her family abused her, and she now has trouble with men. She is unable to touch them, and has trouble talking to them at all, due to her horrid childhood experiences. Now Wendy is on a trip to meet up with her long lost mother, but is side tracked in a freak storm. After she barely escapes crashing into a truck in the middle of the highway, she picks up a woman, who has passed out after having been bitten by a poisonous snake, and also picks up her brother. She invites the siblings into her car and they drive toward Summerville, a small town five miles away from the highway. She gets trapped in Summerville with Colt, a cop from L.A. who moved to Summerville to calm down his rough life, and Pinkus, a hardcore gamer, who was to enter a tournament in L.A. Wendy and her friends then have to survive not only a F6 tornado, but a lunatic killer by the name of Red.
Skin is edge of your seat entertainment. It will keep you turning pages hour after hour, and you will be unable to put down the book until you have finished. Again Ted Dekker delivers with a killer thriller with its own personal twist on good vs. evil. Get to your local library and pick up your copy today, or buy it now.
May 14th
This isn’t new stuff by any means, but I thought I would write about it because of its total awesomeness. What reCAPTCHA does is it displays 2 words that are randomly taken from the scanned books of the Internet Archive and asks you to type in what the words are. This does a couple things: A) It displays essentially impossible-to-read words to you as a deterrent to bots, and B) one of the two words are already known, and by answering the known word correctly, it then confirms both words are right. 150,000 hours a day are spent by humans reading CAPTCHA’s, so why not put that time to good use by digitizing books? You can see by the image below how a typical computer scan reads a book:

So if you are a web developer, go and signup for reCAPTCHA and start using it on your site and help digitize the world’s books one word at a time.