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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