links for 2010-06-02

One of the reasons I continue to like xkcd is the continuous stream of trivia in it, like the Old River Control Structure on the Mississippi. And the result is that thousands of people that have lived their lives in other regions of the U.S. and know nothing about the Mississippi will look it up and learn that the river switches its route to the Gulf from time to time. What other cartoon educates as much as it amuses?

This testing device is interesting. However, I can't imagine why folks like AT&T wouldn't just take their QoS and make all traffic out of these things high-priority.

Tor is evil. Quit using it.

If you aren't reading The Oil Drum you are missing out on a lot of good stuff about the Gulf oil spill.

"An SQL statement walks into a bar and sees two tables. It approaches, and asks “may I join you?”" Oh these are terrible. I love them.

Dude, this thing decompiles and recompiles Flash (.swf) files and plays them as Javascript. It's 100% Javascript. This is going to be SWEET, essentially protecting everybody's investment in their Flash stuff but making the iPad/iPhone/etc. work fine.