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Gallery of horrible CAPTCHAs

By Nick Morrisson | Published: 5 November, 2008
Check out this gallery of the "Worst CAPTCHAs Of All Time on docstoc. Some are funny while others are so bad they could be jokes. (CAPTCHAs are those pictures of distorted text that you sometimes have to re-type to prove you’re human instead of a spambot.)
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mozilla.org’s human-proof CAPTCHAs

By Nick Morrisson | Published: 28 July, 2008
The CAPTCHAs (those pictures of distorted text that you sometimes have to enter to confirm that you’re human) used on the account registration for Firefox Add-Ons page are human-proof:   ← wtf!  The letterforms are ambiguous, the font is a distressed/grunge face that leaves orphaned blobs that might be part of letters, might be periods, and might just [...]
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Drag-and-drop download

By Nick Morrisson | Published: 19 June, 2008
At first it seems like gratuitous "Web 2.0" lipstick, but software maker Panic’s home page is actually pretty clever. There’s an icon for each application they offer. If you click one, it takes you to the product info page, but if you drag and drop it onto the green arrow on the top left of [...]
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Jakob Nielsen answers "how little do users read"?

By Nick Morrisson | Published: 6 May, 2008
Jakob Nielsen’s current Alertbox column looks at how much users actually read on the web: Summary: On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely. We’ve known since our first studies of how users read on the Web that they typically don’t read [...]
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