Good article in the Post today about CAPTCHAs and Spam

Publish.com has a short article about the forthcoming update, Acrobat 9.
Better forms, video comments are the 2 key items listed so far.


Adobe loses top Photoshop guy to Microsoft
From Publish.com...
Microsoft lured Adobe's chief architect for Photoshop, Mark Hamburg, to its
team.

KENTUCKY DERBY SUCKS
The 134th running of the Kentucky Derby is stained by tragedy on Saturday when runner-up Eight Belles is euthanized on the track after breaking both front ankles. Here, track personnel try to hold down the suffering filly following the race.
I hate the Kentucky Derby and won't watch. T
hey run the horses to their death. Uncivilized Money Grubbing Breeders. Breaking BOTH ANKLES at the finish line. WTF??
The horse was running in pain - Her feet were breaking until she fell. Then THEY KILL HER. Yes kill her on the track!!
What is this stupid race about. Why are they allowed to race horses to death for money. Why are horses, living creatures, made into objects of meat abused for money. It is revolting. Anyone who participates in this event in anyway is barbaric!  and killed this horse - it disgusts me! <karen>
They killed the filly on the track.
With the memory of Barbaro still fresh, Eight Belles' catastrophic breakdown Saturday put increasing focus on a sport already trying to overcome a decline in popularity.



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Font Game: Test your font identification skills


Pew Internet Releases Writing, Technology and Teens Report
The state of writing among teens today is marked by an interesting
paradox: While teens are heavily embedded in a tech-rich world and craft
a significant amount of electronic text, they see a fundamental
distinction between their electronic social communications and the more
formal writing they do for school or for personal reasons.

*    87% of youth ages 12-17 engage at least occasionally in some
form of electronic personal communication, which includes text
messaging, sending email or instant messages, or posting comments on
social networking sites.
*    60% of teens do not think of these electronic texts as
"writing."

Teens are utilitarian in their approach to technology and writing, using
both computers and longhand depending on circumstances. Their use of
computers for school and personal writing is often tied to the
convenience of being able to edit easily. And while they do not think
their use of computers or their text-based communications with friends
influences their formal writing, many do admit that the informal styles
that characterize their e-communications do occasionally bleed into
their schoolwork.

*    57% of teens say they revise and edit more when they write using
computer.
*    63% of teens say using computers to write makes no difference in
the quality of the writing they produce.
*    73% of teens say their personal electronic communications
(email, IM, text messaging) have no impact on the writing they do for
school, and 77% said they have no impact on the writing they do for
themselves.
*    64% of teens admit that they incorporate, often accidentally, at
least some informal writing styles used in personal electronic
communication into their writing for school. (Some 25% have used
emoticons in their school writing; 50% have used informal punctuation
and grammar; 38% have used text shortcuts such as "LOL" meaning "laugh
out loud.")

All of this matters more than ever because teenagers and their parents
uniformly believe that good writing is a bedrock for future success.
Eight in ten parents believe that good writing skills are more important
now than they were 20 years ago, and 86% of teens believe that good
writing ability is an important component of guaranteeing success later
in life.

These are among the key findings in a national phone survey of 700 youth
ages 12-17 and their parents conducted by the Pew Internet & American
Life Project and the National Commission on Writing. The survey was
completed in mid-November and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5
ercentage points. The report also contains findings from eight focus
> groups in four U.S. cities conducted in the summer of 2007.