I have noticed lately that Captchas, those ubiquitous letter-images designed to fool computers (but supposedly readable by humans) have been getting absolutely incomprehensible. Take this one from Google. It took me a full five minutes to make sure I got the letters correctly; and this one isn't the worst I've seen lately. Yahoo! delivered a captcha to me that I couldn't get after 3 tries. I realize it's possible I'm just going blind (and yeah, yeah, I should be wearing my glasses, Sean) but the captchas these days do seem to be longer, more compressed, and way harder to read. Am I the only one who's noticed?

Please feel free to mock me, if it really is just me. I can take it.