Google Gnash and Swfdec; they're coming along nicely, but aren't 100% replacements as of yet.

The advantage is on the typical user side. As a Mac user over two architecture transitions, I've really appreciated just being able to pull down a single executable from a site and have it "just work". Disk space is cheap and my tolerance for pointless frustration decreases steadily with age. A distribution mechanism like fat binaries makes it so the user really has to go out of their way to get it wrong.

Continents are not composed of one piece. We in California are reminded of that periodically as the ground beneath us is moving NNW at 35mm per year. Asia is composed of at least the main Asian landmass plus the Indian subcontinent, which is moving northward, developing the Himalayas.

Fastest way to organize a lot of infrequently used but difficult to relocate resources I've accumulated over the years. Hence, the improbably named "personal home page."