Well, the BTL Lake Liner for the In-Door Pond is well on its way! Thats all we've been needing to get that sucker rolling so we're almost there! We've got plenty of video of the construction of the Fish Room and the In-Door Pond itself which will be made available after we get all of this done.
On an unrelated side note, I discovered a free unlimited web host which actually doesn't suck so far. Go figure. Very advanced cPanel and all they require for the hosting, is that you login to the forums at least once a month -- you don't even have to post, only login.
So you might be wondering "alright, whats the catch?" ... well, there is a method to their madness, but I really wouldn't call it a "catch" per say. It is actually quite ingenious.
They use a service called Solve Media. It is a replacement for that annoying CAPTCHA bull-crap and you can make money with it, just by your users signing in!
I could rant about how it works, but I'll let them explain it themselves.
Solve Media from Solve Media on Vimeo.
In my opinion, this is pretty slick for several reasons.
01) The spammer bots have absolutely no way around this to get in and clutter up your forums. NONE. They can't withstand security measures of that magnitude, Captain Ackbar!
02) The "phrase" you need to type is simple "human language". Its not like CyNBf$54F-fUcKtH1S.
03) Short of being drunk, stoned or just too tired so you shouldn't even be on the computer anyways: there is no way to screw this up to get the inevitable "you entered it in wrong!" as you pound your fist into the keyboard, damn near breaking it -- as you struggle to read those CAPTCHA Hieroglyphs and the "can't read it? hear it in audio!" thing is so garbled that a dog couldn't make it out.
Needless to say, I'm impressed -- and I'm not an easy one to impress! :)
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