While you anxiously await the next links roundup, how about a snack?

This is just cool, a vegetable that looks like it was invented by a computer graphics hacker: Romanesco broccoli. Thanks to Morgan McGuire for pointing this thing out (which he calls a “cone-flake”), and for his photo below (appropriately enough, snapped at a farmer’s market in Sunnyvale, CA). Click on the photo for the full image.