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Captcha Advertisements: Brilliantly Evil

I hate Captcha systems and find them extremely irritating. It's not only the act of having to type out the characters on screen, but the fact that deciphering some Captcha systems can be immensely difficult makes me feel less of a human somehow. (Because you know, the whole point of having Captcha systems in place is to weed out the bots.) Enter Solve Media, a start-up based in New York. Solve has decided that Capcha systems are not annoying enough on their own — they must be supplemented by another major annoyance of the web: online ads. As Solve sees it, their new Captcha advertisements will not only benefit advertisers by forcing visitors to look at — and comprehend — the ad, but will...

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So I Guess This Is My Version of a Birth Plan…

I never intended on writing out a birth plan. I know some women go all-out and prepare pages-long documents full of their wishes, desires, and "what-if" scenarios regarding the birth of their children (one doctor friend even told me about a birth plan that filled an entire binder, complete with a table of contents), but I know that ANYTHING can happen during birth. And by my meticulously writing out a birth plan — keeping my type-A personality in mind — I will most likely become upset if everything doesn't go as I intended. As such, I have been reading and researching and have a very loose, general idea of what I would PREFER, but I do not have anything set...

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