A couple of days ago, my dear friend Karan shared with me an idea about making a CAPTCHA that forced the user to choose amongst the photos of several women and identify the attractive one. This is a decent CAPTCHA algorithm because bots would be hard-pressed to know what an attractive women looks like in order to defeat it. Karan was being facetious, but the idea intrigued me. It quickly became apparent that it could never be a particuarly effective CAPTCHA because of the limitation of the number of pictures that could be reasonably displayed at once. For example, if nine pictures are shown, a bot has a one-ninth chance of guessing the correct image, which is far higher than for traditional text-based CAPTCHAs.

But, I was not to be deterred. Instead of a CAPTCHA, I along with my friend Noah decided to make a high quality flash game based on the concept of picking out the one “hot chick” from a set of 9 images. The faster you pick the right image, the more points you get. I went and registered a domain, and setup a server. We are currently polishing and improving the game, but you can see our progress at findthehotties.com.

The question is, “Am I losing my integrity by creating the game?” I view it as harmless fun, but maybe others would view at sexist, and degrading. To counteract that, we’ve decided to make a male version as well. If people are really opposed to it, we’ll take it down. Have I gone to far?

Wow, it’s 2:40 AM, and I’m still up setting up my blog.  I got class tomorrow at 10.  Goodnight.