Thursday, 26 February 2009

• Use somebody

  Youtube video 91, and amazingly a song chosen by me. It was time for a bit of selfishness. I've been hearing a song for a while, but haven't really paid that much attention to it until recently. Then when I did get around to having a sing-a-long, I discovered that it was pretty simple to sing, and very enjoyable at the same time. So I had to give it a go. The title is "Use somebody" originally performed by the band "Kings of leon".

  Check it out:

  I thought I'd use the video opportunity to pump a website I made. It all started with answering my comments on YT. If you try to write more than four comments in ten minutes, you normally get challenged by Captcha. Some of the word challenges that the Youtube Captcha made up were really very amusing. I kept on clicking "Can't read" to make it generate loads of different alternatives, to find all the funny ones. Virtually all the words do not exist in real life, and pretty soon i started dreaming up dictionary definitions for those words. I was thinking of how amusing it would be if someone made a website with the fake Captcha words and fake definitions in a disctionary. It would be so funny. So I made just that website and called it "Captchionary".

  I sat down for a day going through some of the captcha images I've collected and added them to the site with definitions. I've made it so that anybody can submit their own captcha definitions. The more I get the better. I can't wait to see what other people come up with.

  So keep an eye out for those amusing Captcha words. If you see one that brings an amusing definition to mind then right click on the Captcha image and save it to your computer. Then visit the Captchionary website at:

  The Captchionary

  Fill out the form at the bottom and upload your image, or just provide another definition for one of the existing words. Then wait to see if your entry gets accepted. While you're there, you can check out the other entries. My cheeks already hurt from some that I've read.

  Now down to the Youtube business. Here's the state of play with the stats.

  Subscribers = 1,208

  Channel views = 28,081

  Total video views = 537,056

  Until my next post...

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