joke
Jeremy Raines tweeted a link to this cartoon my new filing technique is unstoppable, showing how scotch tape can be used to create a new super-database. Very funny in a Dilbert sort of way, but definitely not NSFW... For more on Twisted Tuesday, you may enjoy: * Hilarious Video: Relational Database
Strategy
This is a hilarious presentation by Josh Berkus, called Scale Fail, given at O'Reilly MySQL CE 2011. Josh is entertaining, well spoken, and cleverly hides insight inside chaos. And he makes some dang good points along the way. Josh has a problem, you see Josh has learned how
humor
This is so funny I laughed until I cried! Definitely NSFW. OMG it's hilarious, but it's also not a bad overview of the issues. Especially loved: You read the latest post on HighScalability.com and think you are a f*cking Google and architect and parrot
nosql
Brian Aker gave this 10 minute lightning talk on NoSQL at the Nov 2009 OpenSQLCamp in Portland, Oregon. It's incredibly funny, probably because there's a lot of truth to what he's saying. Here are the slides and here are the notes. Found though #nosql.
humor
Another fun one... Should I be Worried About Scaling? What happens when the comfortable SQL world of yesterday changes out from under you? You feel like this (it uses some language picante so be advised): Here's a link to the source: http://browsertoolkit.com/fault-tolerance.png A great