The Best of the Internet: Friday Links Edition for July 31, 2009

Here’s John Gruber with a poignant analysis of Microsoft’s current state of the union. No fanyboyism here, just some astute between-the-lines interpretation.
Michael Pollan, one of my favorite authors, explains the strange juxtaposition of the decline of American household cooking and the rise of watching people cook on TV.
I could not agree more with David Pogue’s grassroots movement to Take Back the Beep, which opposes the blatant money-grab by wireless carriers to have mandatory 15-second voicemail instructions. At this point, if you don’t know how to use voicemail, you probably shouldn’t be operating a phone.
The good news: women are getting more beautiful. The bad: men aren’t. But it doesn’t seem to matter, evolutionarily-speaking.
Tom Insam: “It’s hard to like Android.” (thx John Gruber)
TechCrunch’s MG Siegler asks “Can AT&T Handle the iPhone?” The only mistake in his excellent post is phrasing the title as a question.
Flarf is a form of postmodern poetry made by stringing together phrases from web searches. As kottke notes, it began as a joke, and then evolved from bad to ‘sort of great’.
Finally, here’s a heckler I find amusing. A jerk, yes, but an amusing jerk.