Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 8/13/2010

It’s Friday the 13th, and I need to show you something terrifying.

Behold:

(Click to enlarge.)

What you’re looking at is a 6 foot tall plant with a flower as big as an NBA player’s head.  It’s not cute.  It’s not amazing.  It’s awful and terrible and horrible, and I’m pretty sure you can watch it breathe if you’re crazy enough to get close.  There is nothing natural about this.  Plants with saliva are not okay.

Am I the only one that thinks plants are fine if they stay below a certain size?  Once they grow past this, they become monsters capable of staging an uprising against man.  Who’s with me in this fear of super-sized zombie plants?  Who’s got my back?  Who knows that it’s not the machine/Skynet uprising we should fear, but the one with mega-sized vegetation?

The only thing that quells my unease with these things is a bunch of random links on the internet for some weekend reading.  So here you go — your therapy awaits.

Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android. (Here’s a full rundown on Oracle’s complaint and the patents they claim Google is violating.)

Paul Graham talks about what went wrong at Yahoo.

NatGeo photographer Mark Thiessen talks about fighting the rapant wildfires in Russia.

Unsuck It: finally, a good business jargon to plain English translator.

Google announces Voice Actions for Android.  One of the great things about the Android OS is that it’s voice-enabled throughout.  With voice actions, you can now give commands to Android-based devices so they execute a command instead of merely speaking data into data fields.  And the cool thing is that the processing doesn’t happen on-phone, but instead on Google’s servers.  Very cool.

Have a good weekend, everyone.

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