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FIGHT THE KIPPLE!
Friday, 13 June 2008

    "Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more"

The internet is the greatest modern kipple agent. When nobody is around, junk reproduces itself in comment posts or indeed any unprotected form on your site. I had not checked the site for a month or so, and when I finally did, the comment sections were full of url's for everything from viagra to penis enlargement to "meet hot women". So I had to install the contemporary equivalent of a Voight-Kampf test - a program that can distinguish between a bot and a human.

    I found this great script called reCAPTCHA which was really easy to integrate into the site code, so now every time you write a comment - you have to type in 2 words presented to you in a distorted image. It's a little annoying, but the cool thing is that they are using words that people type to digitize books. That alone made me overlook the relative ugliness of the form they provide.     By the way, I can't believe that kipple is not in my computer's spelling dictionary. It's one of the coolest concepts, introduced in Phillip K. Dicks story "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" (that's where the quote is from).
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