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What a great work of art! I've got to say though, it is hard for me to read your squiggly CAPTCHAs.
Dear Handle,
The admittedly-tortuous CAPTCHA is currently zapping ~25 Chinese spam turds per hour.
Yours,
-Stanislav
Speaking of captcha, I love this concept better than the squiggly ones:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/asirra/
I was under the impression that blogspam was mostly being posted by sweat-shop workers these days.
While I think of it, reCaptcha, which started off improving the digitisation of books, appears to have moved on to "digitising your street number", to better "monetise" Google's streetview stuff.
Unfortunately, it's relatively easy to guess which of the two sides of the captcha need to be correct, and which can be left as anything you like, thus adding a few bits of entropy to google's ever-expanding database of everything about everyone.
It's less fun than deliberately adding misinformation to Wikipedia, but hey.