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Papa Oz Documentary in the Works
Jack Osborne, son of shock rocker Ozzy Osbourne, is working on a new documentary about his papa that he expects will rectify the damage done to Papa Oz's reputation as an artist that Jack believes resulted from the family's MTV reality series. Ozzy refuses to write an autobiography, so Jack said he is making "a talking book" about his father's life (yeah, Jack, a lot of us call that a movie or a film - we got it).
Many people who watched The Osbournes came away with the impression that papa Oz was a nearly senile, aging rocker who was suffering from the effects of abusing his brain with too many drugs and too much alcohol for way too long. Jack told RollingStone.com, "I think The Osbournes, to a degree, tarnished the public’s perception of my dad as a bit of a senile, funny, bumbling guy...I think that almost discredited who he is as an artist."
Papa Oz was, arguably, one of the first goth rockers, following in the Doc Martined, animal eating footsteps of Alice Cooper. Though not the first musician to push the envelope, he pushed the envelope in a completely different direction in the era of peace, love, and hippiness thus paving the way for the musicians of today who scream at you instead of singing to you (did I forget to thank you for that one Ozzy?)
Jack wants start turning the "public's perception" of papa Oz around starting with a preview portions of the film, entitled John (papa Oz's first name in real life) for concert goers at OzzFest in 2009.
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I choose to think of Ozzy in a positive light. Songs like "Mama I'm Coming Home" and "Close My Eyes Forever" are fantastic! I will always see the artist in Ozzy- not the frustrated bumbling father with annoying bratty kids.
What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books.A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them Ñ colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books.
To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct.
Currently, we are helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive and old editions of the New York Times.