Morning Linkage (Apr 21) The Shearing Day Edition

Kind of icky because it’s about bugs (ants) but the pho­tos are fab.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24826

Can any­one tell me what I am being warned against? “Cause that’s the
scari­est squir­rel I have ever seen.
http://sleepmachine.tumblr.com/post/98430660/tsuyatsuya

Two from the tech news.

Oracle to buy SUN. The MySQL forums will be utter­ly use­less for at
least a week. Let the wail­ing begin.
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/oracle-acquires-sun-ars-explores-the-impact-on-open-source.ars

More tech for devel­op­ing coun­tries. Portable cell phone based ultra-sound.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/20/winmo-smartphones-now-work-as-medical-tricorders-with-usb-based-imagers/

Oblig LEGO post. Visual pun ahead.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/20/lego-photo-box-lego.html

I love the idea of guest cura­tors and now a musi­cian (Brian Eno) is
being giv­en the chance to curate a music fes­ti­val. Very high cool
factor.
http://www.bonnaroo.com/news/2009/04/20/david-byrne-first-artist-to-curate-stage.aspx