Google acquires reCAPTCHA

Seems like a somewhat natural fit with Google’s “digitize the world” mission

Senators McCain and Coburn tried to kill the National Recreation Trails Program

Thankfully, the amendments were voted down, which means $82 million will go to fund trail building and maintenance in the country’s national parks.

Particularly illogical, although I suppose not for Republicans, is the support from Senator Coburn for killing trail funding. Coburn was one of the leading proponents of legislation allowing concealed weapons in national parks – so I guess the senator from Oklahoma is all for shooting handguns in parks, just not, you know, hiking in them.

Personally, I’m incredibly proud of our national park system. If you’ve never spent a day rebuilding a trail, I highly recommend the experience.

CrowdFlower looks like a pretty incredible crowd sourcing app

Nice UI and absolutely brilliant visualizations.

Adobe is buying Omniture for $1.8B

I’m struggling to understand exactly how this makes sense but at least tracking Flash apps should be easier in the future.

Moran ‘prematurely tweeted … before our editorial process had been completed.’

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ABC News’ official statement that co-anchor Terry Moran published an off-the-record President Obama calling Kanye West a “jackass”.

It’s cool, Terry, I hear it happens to lots of guys.

WebGL allows for native 3D rendering inside a browser. More details from Wolfire [via webkitbits]

NY Times gets pwnd by malicious adware advertiser

A scammer pretended to be a legit national advertiser, provided some legitimate ads for a week, then switched them to pop-up fake virus warnings over the weekend. The Times has suspended ads…

Google’s working on micropayments

Will work as an extension to Google Checkout, a distant second also-ran to the near ubiquitous PayPal.

Raleigh Denim screenprints hip bones inside the front pockets of their immaculate jeans. I love these details almost as much as I love the fact that the jeans are sourced and handmade in my beloved home state. [via A Continuous Lean]