CAPTCHA Poetry

Heather Moore, the talented proprietor and blogger of Skinny Laminx, recently wrote a couple of CAPTCHA security code poems that speak to the wordsmith inside me. The comments about them are pretty interesting and creative as well. Here’s one of Heather’s poems:

Aingee
Chedge criestme orstsper!
Shanesto...
Foref, myrac, munmanc,
Torse?
Hanim equin padwo?
Picar!
Mingin!
Corses aingee...

--Shawn

Skinny Laminx Security Poetry

(Shawn Connally and Bruce Stewart are guest bloggers)

[#1 posted by Shay , January 4, 2009 4:54 PM]

Heh, those are cool.

Reminds me of these nifty CAPTCHA t-shirts I keep meaning to get.

[#2 posted by Brandon Heyer , January 4, 2009 6:22 PM]

Modern Dadaism anyone?

[#3 posted by laureltree , January 4, 2009 7:20 PM]

I have been making capcha poetry except not smithing words, but just writing re-Captcha poetry by putting two words per line.

chezlaurel.blogspot.com

[#4 posted by stratosfyr , January 4, 2009 7:23 PM]

It's like a Rorschach test in words...

[#5 posted by Anonymous , January 4, 2009 7:30 PM]

Courtesy of the BB CAPTCHA:

Fire tingly, her dreamed.
Rigging the anyway 1598,
CROSMAN Johir Hardwick.
Weight princeps cutters?
Germs- 19.

[#6 posted by Takuan , January 4, 2009 7:32 PM]

is there a test that computers can use to make sure they aren't talking to a human?

[#7 posted by membrain , January 4, 2009 7:34 PM]

Hitting the chords of language processing in a nonsense, yet stimulating way has always been fun for me! This is a great post! It made my day.

[#8 posted by marmorek , January 4, 2009 8:01 PM]

I got this great political insight from Ticketmaster:

http://i39.tinypic.com/idhm9t.jpg

[#9 posted by Anonymous , January 4, 2009 8:09 PM]

Brillig!

[#10 posted by Johnny Cat , January 4, 2009 9:00 PM]

I'd just like to say Endenhausen 1912, and furthermore Ghind ROOSEMONDE.

[#11 posted by David , January 4, 2009 9:08 PM]

I'm sure one could qualify this as experimental, but I'm gonna say it's not poetry.

[#12 posted by gHurley , January 4, 2009 9:09 PM]

I've discovered something similar. It's called UTF-16 poetry. The method is as follows:

1. Go to an English website
2. Switch the Character Encoding to UTF-16
3. Copy some of the resulting Chineese gibberish and run it through a translate engine (Google Translate or Altavista)
4. Arrange the results into poetry.

Some results to get you started can be seen at http://utf16poetry.wordpress.com/

[#13 posted by WebWeasel , January 4, 2009 9:28 PM]

I do believe you've summoned Cthulhu.

[#14 posted by tgjerusalem , January 5, 2009 8:41 AM]

Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee

[#15 posted by MajorD , January 6, 2009 10:11 PM]

Thank you #14! As I read this post, the first thing I thought of was also "lurgid bee".

When I find myself with awful poets
One thing comes to rescue me
Humming lines of gibb'rish
Lurgid Bee! Lurgid Bee!

And when they keep on reading verses
Chanting 'til my ears implode
Silently I'm singing,
Lurgid Bee! Lurgid Bee!

Lurgid Bee! Lurgid Bee!
Lurgid Bee! Lurgid Bee!
'Til I'm all gruntbuggly
Lurgid Bee! Lurgid Bee!