Ok, I have a few random comments on child-rearing and then suddenly I am hawking some websites you never heard of, right? Assuming anyone is actually reading this....Well, I am a victim of Mechanical Turk, a nifty relatively new feature run by the folks at Amazon whereby you do on-line tasks that can't be easily done by computers, for small amounts of Amazon credit.
Yes, we humans are still better at some things, like identifying features in aerial photos. They had a huge effort recently whereby people scanned air photos in the search for Steve Fossett's plane for example.
Some tasks pay only a few cents but sometimes they'll pay $1 or more. Why do people bother with such menial things? I don't know, why do I? The amusement or interest, and quick easy Amazon credit perhaps? Some other typical tasks are transcribing podcasts, locating obscure information on the web, writing reviews of websites and so on.
Otherwise, back to our regularly scheduled ranting.
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