Tue. 08/10 - A New Carnivorous Flower CAPTCHAs Its Prey
Why are CAPTCHA’s so frustrating and, in a way, so grim and disconcerting? Plus, botanists have identified the first carnivorous plant in twenty years, but don’t go calling it Audrey III just yet. And, a new development in the McFlurry Cold War....
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Show Notes
Why are CAPTCHA’s so frustrating and, in a way, so grim and disconcerting? Plus, botanists have identified the first carnivorous plant in twenty years, but don’t go calling it Audrey III just yet. And, a new development in the McFlurry Cold War.
Links:
- Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing (Clive Thompson)
- How to Solve Captchas—and Why They've Gotten So Hard (Wired)
- 1st Carnivorous Plant Identified In 20 Years Grows Near Vancouver (NPR)
- This Flower Hides a Secret: It’s Actually a Carnivore (New York Times)
- A Carnivorous Plant Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight in North America Triantha occidentalis is picky (Gizmodo)
- McFlurry Machine Maker At the Center of Right-to-Repair Fight (Gizmodo)
- Why the McFlurry Machine Company Just Got Hit With a Restraining Order (Motherboard)
- Did the Company That Makes McFlurry Machines Get Hit with a Restraining Order? (Snopes)
- Fri. 04/23 - A McShake Up: The Battle Over McDonald's Ice Cream Machines (Kottke Ride Home)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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