Book recommendations

Just had a lunchtime conversation about how you find new music that then turned to how you find new books.  There are lots of differences, with obvious reasons, but there’s one that is interesting and related to stuff I’m interested in work-wise.
For music, there’s things like LastFM, where social network effects help tell you that [...]

Neat hack: reCAPTCHA

I’m not a huge fan of CAPTCHAs – those annoying prove-you’re-not-a-spam-bot thingummies where you have to type some disguised letters.  Even if you can deploy them without the outrageous accessibility issues, they’re at best a necessary evil.  (At worst, they don’t even fox sophisticated spam tools.)  It’s fundamentally wrong for a computer to be setting a [...]