May 11, 2004
Games for Infogeeks
Some sneaky librarian type got the idea that they could get average joe web user to help classify images. So they went about turning it into a game. Somehow, they managed to make indexing enjoyable! I've found the game to actually be pretty good practice for my job. Scary, eh?
And if you're ever stuck and don't know how to describe an image, check out this guy's Topical Word Lists (via boingboing). You know, just in case you needed to call someone an ailurophile.
And just because I know that all this indexing will make you hungry. Here's how you can get your unix on and your grub on. Have a Pizza Party via a command line pizza orderator (via boingboing). No geek should be without it. I guess Dominoes has figured out its market. After a long day of shell scripting you just gotta have some pie.
Posted by Keeper of the Blog at May 11, 2004 06:50 AM