a mix of links i find interesting related to music; technology; design; and the environment, personal content, and pictures of life in florida (south of the south). put that in your blog and post it. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-5744701-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @southofthesouth)http://southofthesouth.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6cgdgbalL1qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://southofthesouth.com/post/877278839http://southofthesouth.com/post/877278839Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:08:05 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6c9uhx1Lj1qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>You know you’re out of South Florida and in Martin County dri</p>http://southofthesouth.com/post/876781419http://southofthesouth.com/post/876781419Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:47:09 -0400<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6c32gqZCt1qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://southofthesouth.com/post/876251119http://southofthesouth.com/post/876251119Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:20:42 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6amgbUdpe1qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://southofthesouth.com/post/872847339http://southofthesouth.com/post/872847339Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:24:16 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6ah93CGFJ1qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Miami office. Lame.</p>http://southofthesouth.com/post/872451695http://southofthesouth.com/post/872451695Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:31:53 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l68c35nH2w1qzq3mwo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.bitterfilms.com/ok.html">everything will be ok</a></p>http://southofthesouth.com/post/867008557http://southofthesouth.com/post/867008557Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:45:03 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6834saaii1qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://southofthesouth.com/post/866381041http://southofthesouth.com/post/866381041Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:31:39 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l66uvyLYeN1qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://southofthesouth.com/post/863360087http://southofthesouth.com/post/863360087Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:35:59 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l66nn8LXz11qzq3mwo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Not cool. And this was my second* favorite person in the company from another office.</p> <p>*first favorite is Josh in Charleston, of course.</p>http://southofthesouth.com/post/862786272http://southofthesouth.com/post/862786272Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:59:00 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l61j7u5xdw1qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://southofthesouth.com/post/852099592http://southofthesouth.com/post/852099592Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:35:55 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l61b6wTFd81qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hobe Sound Beach</p>http://southofthesouth.com/post/851500443http://southofthesouth.com/post/851500443Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:42:34 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5z3qwJi6F1qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>business cat from Russia.</p>http://southofthesouth.com/post/846148970http://southofthesouth.com/post/846148970Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:06:31 -0400<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5yy2o0bv01qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>EXCUSE ME</p> <p>I WAS LOOKING AT THE WATER</p> <p>via <a href="http://i.imgur.com/gTNuM.jpg">i.imgur.com</a></p>http://southofthesouth.com/post/845751951http://southofthesouth.com/post/845751951Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:03:59 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5vzbtKq6e1qzq3mwo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>It never even crossed my mind that I was doing something <em>good</em>, like helping to archive human knowledge that predates the Internet, each time I solved a reCAPTCHA to post a snide message board comment. This is without a doubt the most practical/amazing use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing">crowdsourcing</a> I’ve seen to date. Web 3.0 is here.</p> <blockquote> <p>A <a href="http://www.captcha.net/">CAPTCHA</a> is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.</p> <p>About 200 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that’s not a lot of time, but in aggregate <strong>these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day.</strong> What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into “reading” books.</p> <p>To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using “Optical Character Recognition” (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.</p> </blockquote>http://southofthesouth.com/post/838901531http://southofthesouth.com/post/838901531Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:38:00 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5tszlOdDn1qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://southofthesouth.com/post/833684620http://southofthesouth.com/post/833684620Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:26:10 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5rg9jQ0Xk1qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Every year, IAC puts their future failed investments on a t-shirt.</p>http://southofthesouth.com/post/828158858http://southofthesouth.com/post/828158858Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:56:09 -0400<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5qccvOaf21qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>McDevil’s</p>http://southofthesouth.com/post/825740755http://southofthesouth.com/post/825740755Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:34:08 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5ntzlgVhv1qcajtro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://cleveridiot.tumblr.com/post/820016735/real-life-meme">cleveridiot</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Real Life Meme</p> </blockquote>http://southofthesouth.com/post/824185367http://southofthesouth.com/post/824185367Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:33:06 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5m000vQk61qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Work.</p>http://southofthesouth.com/post/815825298http://southofthesouth.com/post/815825298Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:16:49 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5j1tu5rGJ1qzq3mwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>$1.50 frame worked perfectly for the free 12x18 lithograph!</p>http://southofthesouth.com/post/809144561http://southofthesouth.com/post/809144561Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:03:31 -0400