2005 Readings

Ohio Senate Bill 9 (www.acluohio.org)
Torture's Long Shadow (Washington Post)
Computer Makers Cater to Big Business, Slight the Rest of Us (online.wsj.com)
What The Fuck is with Dell Technical Support?! (by Jeremy Zawodny) (jeremy.zawodny.com)
Scattered thoughts on the disappearance of the "traditional" family (Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon (1))
Tango project aims to clean up the desktop (www.linux.com)
Plugging memory leaks with weak references (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Hardware in Review - Computers, electricity, and you (www.hardwareinreview.com)
Solutions from PC Magazine: Create an Indestructible Shared PC (www.pcmag.com)
American global warming gas emissions accelerate to a record high (The Guardian)
George Monbiot: The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis (The Guardian)
EU launches satellite to rival GPS (The Guardian)
They Shoot Helicopters, Don’t They?: How journalists spread rumors during Katrina (www.reason.com)
What's in a Plea Agreement? - Does the government know what it's getting? By Daniel Engber (www.slate.com)
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (New York Times)
RIAA lawyers bully witnesses into perjury (arstechnica.com)
Why Are Journalists So Rich? (Mark R. Mitchell, CJR Daily : the audit)
Avoiding the no-win situation (Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon (1))
Ruby on Java = JRuby - Project to Watch -Java and Web Software Blog (blog.taragana.com)
Hanukkah - Still crazy after all these years (Douglas, rushkoff.blog)
Business is Good (Douglas, rushkoff.blog)
Project Shamrock (schneier, Schneier on Security)
A Different Argument for the Right to Bear Arms (David Friedman, Ideas)
A Different Argument Against the Death Penalty (David Friedman, Ideas)
A Veteran's Iraq Message Upsets Army Recruiters (New York Times)
Marginal Revolution: A simple public choice model of currency crises (www.marginalrevolution.com)
The Spring Experience, Day 1 (Justin Gehtland, Relevance)
Interfaces suck for public APIs (Software will save us) (www.netalive.org)
Eamonn McManus's Blog: Dealing with multiple serial forms of the same class (weblogs.java.net)
Java API Design Guidelines (Artima)
Shop 'Til They Lock (Wired)
Mark Reinhold's Blog: Mustang Release Contents (JSR 270): Early Draft Review (weblogs.java.net)
TIME.com: Best of 2005: Television -- Page 1 (www.time.com)
Defense Lawyers in Terror Cases Plan Challenges Over Spy Efforts (New York Times)
Big Labor's Big Secret (New York Times)
Labor's Huge Rubber Rat, Caught in a Legal Maze (New York Times)
Out of Cookies and Onto Labels: Bad Fat Steps Into the Daylight (New York Times)
Heavenly Lawns (www.gardenersnet.com)
The anti-American president (www.worldnetdaily.com)
Dog Bites Man - Not a story—a national crisis. By Jon Katz (www.slate.com)
Some megachurches closing on Christmas (www.cnn.com)
If this suite's a success, why is it so buggy? (The Guardian)
As a Disaster, a 'Little Strike That Couldn't' (New York Times)
Police blotter: Judge lets Feds track cell phones (news.com)
Of Dilbert and Torture (david, Quoderat)
Italy warrants for 22 purported CIA operatives - Dec 23, 2005 (www.cnn.com)
Lifting a Corner of the Regional Airline Rug (idlewild, enplaned)
Help judge the Codie Awards (software.newsforge.com)
Facing South: Why did people die in New Orleans? (southernstudies.org)
Pentagon's Intelligence Authority Widens (Washington Post)
Lawyers, Guns and Money: The Schmittian Libertarians (lefarkins.blogspot.com)
Mixing up being hardnosed with being right (Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon (1))
I'll blow up the entire world just to irritate one hippie (Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon (1))
Next Generation - 30 Greatest Games of 2005: Page 2 (www.next-gen.biz)
Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report (New York Times)
MI6 and CIA 'sent student to Morocco to be tortured' (The Guardian)
Climate change theory barks up wrong tree, study shows (The Guardian)
On the trail of the Borneo cat-fox (The Guardian)
St Andrews researcher questions belief in hell (The Guardian)
Man sues CIA over torture claims (BBC)
US general defends phosphorus use (BBC)
Tree-planting projects may not be so green (The Guardian)
Weiqi Gao's Observations - Java People, Stop Worrying and Start Coding! (www.weiqigao.com)
2theadvocate.com: News - White House fails N.O. homeowners 12/23/05 (www.2theadvocate.com)
Surveillance, New York Style (New York Times)
OUTSOURCING TORTURE (www.newyorker.com)
Promising Prospect: Tunatic (www.macworld.com)
Ezra Klein: Against Small Business (ezraklein.typepad.com)
The man chewing on the Big Apple (www.theglobeandmail.com)
MF Bliki: CommandQuerySeparation (martinfowler.com)
FluentInterface (Martin Fowler)
MF Bliki: DuckInterface (martinfowler.com)
Court Refuses U.S. Bid to Shift Terror Suspect (New York Times)
Media Ode to the City That Walks (New York Times)
A Brighter View Astern Than Over the Bow (New York Times)
Download Piaf, Go to Jail (Wired)
It will lunge towards you if you stray too close, or try to snatch anything you put in its mouth. Now it has become the most terrifying beast of all - this year's must-have Christmas toy. (The Guardian)
Anthropomorphizing Demons and Ideas (Julia Sweeney, Julia Sweeney)
Feministe » On Helping Women (www.feministe.us)
Brimming over with reproductive rights links (Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon (1))
Pensito Review » More Trouble on the Right for Bush - Bob ‘Impeachment’ Barr Says Domestic Spying Is a ‘Violation of Federal Laws’ (www.pensitoreview.com)
Abstinence is immoral (Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon (1))
Gonzales: Congress Gave President The Authority To Spy On Americans (www.dailykos.com)
'Pants on fire' press conference (Pam Spaulding, Pandagon (1))
Playlist: iTunes and the 7-burn limit (playlistmag.com)
The Poor Need Not Apply (New York Times)
Judge Rejects Teaching Intelligent Design (New York Times)
The new technology at the root of the NSA wiretap scandal (arstechnica.com)
Diebold Hack Hints at Wider Flaws (Wired)
Lawbreaker in Chief (Wired)
API Levels: How Low Can You Go? (www.metacase.com)
"JBoss At Work" Was Named Poorly (www.jaredrichardson.net)
The Absolute Bottom 50 Urban Legends (www.chickenhead.com)
In Final Hours, M.T.A. Took a Big Risk on Pensions (New York Times)
Net wiretapping plans under fire (news.com)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: The war on Christmas is over. Guess who won? (www.reason.com)
D.C. Stadium Deja Vu: The nation's capital rolls over for Major League Baseball--again (www.reason.com)
Safety is Freedom (James Gosling, James Gosling: on the Java Road)
F.B.I. Watched Activist Groups, New Files Show (New York Times)
Fishing Industry's Fuel Efficiency Gets Worse as Ocean Stocks Get Thinner (New York Times)
The Fog of False Choices (New York Times)
Rushing to Execute in Texas (New York Times)
ZNet |Corporate Globalization | Free Software as a Social Movement (www.zmag.org)
Robotic heroics at radiation lab - 'Mighty Mouse' machine stages rescue at US government facility. (www.nature.com)
Testing Drugs on India's Poor (Wired)
Why do some countries drive on the right and others on the left ? (users.pandora.be)
Ruby/Rails: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (Stuart Halloway, Relevance)
Rights Group Reports Afghanistan Torture (New York Times)
Book Review: 'The Republican War on Science,' by Chris Mooney (New York Times)
Crying Wolf With Keyguard (weblogs.java.net)
The departure of the hyper-enthusiasts (Bruce Eckel's Weblog)
What are those buttons doing in my class? (richardcowin.typepad.com)
Book Pyre » Blog Archive » Java Network Programming: Elliotte Rusty Harold (books.markearnest.net)
China: Rampant Violence and Intimidation Against Petitioners (Human Rights Watch, 8-12-2005) (www.hrw.org)
Software Pricing Models (David Crow - article)
Tabarrok on Feldstein on Capital Taxation (www.marginalrevolution.com)
David Crow: Simplicity Rules (davidcrow.ca)
Reviving native traditions (InfoWorld)
Perfection and Simplicity (Artima)
Power could cost more than servers, Google warns (news.com)
Secret ID Law Goes to Court (Wired)
The Rembrandt Code (Wired)
The Fishbowl: Humane Interfaces (fishbowl.pastiche.org)
Rendition prisoner 'invented Iraq-al-Qaida link' (The Guardian)
Brand as Communication (Douglas, rushkoff.blog)
It's Not Your Grandpa's Moral Hazard Anymore - The problem goes corporate (www.slate.com)
How Much Torture Is OK?: Ticking time bombs and slippery slopes (www.reason.com)
Hooded Progressivism: The secret reformist history of the Ku Klux Klan (www.reason.com)
The Dilbert Blog: Cloning (dilbertblog.typepad.com)
Python Sequence Types -- str, unicode, list, tuple, buffer, xrange (www.python.org)
Sit Happens - A search for the best desk chair. By Seth Stevenson (www.slate.com)
Did you know about Japex? (weblogs.java.net)
ContextualValidation (martinfowler.com)
Marshals Shoot and Kill Passenger in Bomb Threat (New York Times)
Professor in Terror Case May Face Deportation (New York Times)
Torture evidence inadmissible in UK courts, Lords rule (The Guardian)
BrooklynParrots.com: A Web Site About the Wild Parrots of Brooklyn (www.brooklynparrots.com)
Oil Deal With Venezuela (query.nytimes.com)
Not Guilty Verdicts in Florida Terror Trial Are Setback for U.S. (New York Times)
Lines Are Drawn for Big Suit Over Sodas (New York Times)
Sun to offer more free software (news.com)
Sun makes Niagara an open-source chip (news.com)
Itanium: A cautionary tale (news.com)
Music Man Cracks DRM Schemes (Wired)
Old Rips (Wired)
Pre-Katrina arrestees languish in system (dwb.newsobserver.com)
Hillary continues image building with more wingnut bootlicking (Pam Spaulding, Pandagon (1))
Macworld: Review: OmniGraffle Professional 4.0 (www.macworld.com)
Gone Spear-Phishin' (New York Times)
In Mongolia, an 'Extinction Crisis' Looms (New York Times)
Firm Allegedly Hiding Cisco Bugs (wired-vig.wired.com)
Democracy under threat (The Guardian)
A Peek Under the PR Mask (Washington Post)
Another Unfinished API: javax.comm (weblogs.java.net)
Case Against Zone Labs is 180 Degrees Off (www.gripe2ed.com)
NYC Subway Searches Upheld: A Critique of the Court's Decision (www.concurringopinions.com)
Google Analytics (Tim Bray)
Depolarizing the copyright debate (The Register)
Passion is blind (Kathy Sierra, headrush.typepad.com)
You're going to make a martyr of me whether you like it or not (Amanda Marcotte, www.pandagon.net)
'Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion' (The Guardian)
Angry BellSouth Withdrew Donation, New Orleans Says (Washington Post)
French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software (www.fsffrance.org)
Java Urban Performance Legends (blogs.sun.com)
WTF?! (norman.walsh.name)
This Season's War Cry: Commercialize Christmas, or Else (New York Times)
Are Lawyers Being Overbilled for Their Test Preparation? (New York Times)
:: Thought Virus #5: The Ben & Jerry's Syndrome (www.rushkoff.com)
New theory: Maureen Dowd just has Stockholm Syndrome (www.pandagon.net)
Poisonings From a Popular Pain Reliever Are Rising (New York Times)
Torture Is 'Widespread' in China, U.N. Investigator Says (New York Times)
High-tech retailers, low-tech rebates (www.computerworld.com)
The 100 Best Products of 2005 (www.pcworld.com)
To Boldly Go Where No Fan Has Gone Before (Wired)
I'm Tired Of Saving! (Artima)
Mike Loukides's Blog: The Problem with Scripting (weblogs.java.net)
Free Grows Revenue - Just Ask Your Carrier (blogs.sun.com)
Justice Staff Saw Texas Districting As Illegal (Washington Post)
Get Me the Head of the Hunt Scammer (New York Times)
Fuel Up with Banana Peels (Wired)
U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers (New York Times)
Louisiana's Levee Inquiry Faults Army Corps (New York Times)
Airline Security a Waste of Cash (Wired)
Where DRM takes you (www.cincomsmalltalk.com)
Sun Java JRE Sandbox Security Bypass Vulnerabilities (secunia.com)
Feeding the Beast for Light in New Orleans (New York Times)
Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to Be Evaded, Study Finds (New York Times)
Lawmaker Quits After He Pleads Guilty to Bribes (New York Times)
John Vlissides (c2.com)
The dogs of New Orleans / After all the human tragedy, pets left behind were an afterthought -- except to a pack of determined rescuers (www.sfgate.com)
For Category 5 Safety, Levees Are Piece of a $32 Billion Pie (www.theledger.com)
» if (Windows Rules) then (Linux fails) (blogs.zdnet.com)
CDC Proposal Would Help U.S. Track Travelers (Washington Post)
US to Monitor All Travel, Detain at Will (WaPo) (www.dailykos.com)
Superman V: The Whole Sordid Saga (www.agonybooth.com)
'Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Corruption Endangers a Treasure of the Caspian (New York Times)
Writing the fastest code, by hand, for fun (news.com)
The Joel Test and Agility (www.agileprogrammer.com)
Help Wanted: Academic Economists, Pro-Bush (New York Times)
Abuse worse than under Saddam, says Iraqi leader (The Guardian)
A New Spice in the Gumbo - Newsweek Gulf Hurricane 2005 Coverage (msnbc.msn.com)
Should We Have Hidden Options? (photomatt.net)
Republicans Are Deeply Split Over How to Apportion New Tax Cuts (New York Times)
No-Flush Urinals Just Waiting for Plumbers (www.latimes.com)
Poland risks Russia's wrath with Soviet nuclear attack map (The Guardian)
Lost Amid the Rising Tide of Detainees in Iraq (New York Times)
Sea level rise doubles in 150 years (The Guardian)
Pacific Atlantis: first climate change refugees (The Guardian)
Secret British document accuses Israel (The Guardian)
TheElementsOfAntStyle (wiki.apache.org)
In Utah, Trying to Undo a Federal Claim Bit by Bit (New York Times)
Shift on Suspect Is Linked to Role of Qaeda Figures (New York Times)
Sometimes, a Tax Cut for the Wealthy Can Hurt the Wealthy (New York Times)
The Long Wait for the Chance to Empty Pockets and Shed Shoes (New York Times)
Why Gas Is Good for America (Wired)
Threads and Swing (java.sun.com)
How to Use Threads (java.sun.com)
Don't Confirm Me! (cafe.elharo.com)
Bush PLOT TO BOMB HIS ARAB ALLY (www.mirror.co.uk)
Something You Can Do (www.gripe2ed.com)
Dirty Bomb Suspect Padilla Indicted - Yahoo! News (news.yahoo.com)
Andrew Morton on kernel development (www.linuxformat.co.uk)
Louisiana Sees Faded Urgency in Relief Effort (New York Times)
Growth of Islam in Russia Brings Soviet Response (New York Times)
In Give and Take of Evolution, a Surprising Contribution From Islands (New York Times)
The Power of the Bump (New York Times)
WWOZ will be the talk of New Orleans (www.nola.com)
OSx86 Project - 10.4.3 Security Broken. And we're a little surprised... (osx86project.org)
Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : Tipping the Scale (Why the UI, Part 5) (blogs.msdn.com)
Meet Chet Haase, Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) Client Architect at Sun Microsystems (java.sun.com)
Barricaded in Paris (www.canada.com)
NO WORK AND NO PLAY (www.newyorker.com)
The New White Flight (online.wsj.com)
"The Hardest Logical Puzzle Ever" (vitanuova.loyalty.org)
Confrontation With Italy Looms at the Met (New York Times)
'Last Call Poker' celebrates cemeteries (news.com)
TiVo to transfer shows to iPods, Sony PSP (news.com)
The Bad Lieutenant (Wired)
Once a cheerleader, now Iraq makes him the BMOC (www.pandagon.net)
NetBeans Progress (www.tbray.org)
Hello, I'm Your Sister. Our Father Is Donor 150. (New York Times)
Judging a cover a by its book. (weblogs.java.net)
'They couldn't take away my dignity' (The Guardian)
Millions face glacier catastrophe (The Guardian)
Seeing Life Outside New Orleans Alters Life Inside It (New York Times)
2,500 Arrested Before Katrina Are Still in Limbo (ktla.trb.com)
Test Driven Development?! (Artima)
Tom Copeland of PMD & Rubyforge (codesnipers.com)
Price as Signal (www.joelonsoftware.com)
A Court Fight to Keep a Secret That's No Real Secret at All (New York Times)
I Vant to Drink Your Vatts (New York Times)
Negroponte (Wired)
chrs.me.uk: Welcome to East Germany (chrs.blogspot.com)
Televangelist Robertson warns town of God‘s wrath (www.leadingthecharge.com)
Iraqi Rift Grows After Discovery of Prison (New York Times)
Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit (Wired)
Judges Reject Cell-Phone Tracking (Wired)
I Forgot My Administrator Password! (pubs.logicalexpressions.com)
Graham Hamilton's Blog: My Favorite (Dead) Java Boilerplate (weblogs.java.net)
Sneaky, sneaky Log4J (weblogs.java.net)
Blu-ray group, HP at odds (news.com)
New Orleans Vote Near, but Who Will Go? (www.heraldtribune.com)
Politicos wary of changes to copyright law (news.com)
Apple Planning Intel-Ready iBook Debut for January (www.thinksecret.com)
New Orleans 'powerless' (www.news24.com)
Sony Numbers Add Up to Trouble (wired.com)
Deal to Replace Schools After Katrina Is Faulted (New York Times)
Hard Choices Seen in Efforts to Help Louisiana Wetlands (New York Times)
Senate Approves Limiting Rights of U.S. Detainees (New York Times)
France Faces a Colonial Legacy: What Makes Someone French? (New York Times)
Spyware spat makes small print a big issue (news.com)
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures (swiss.csail.mit.edu)
Secondhand Microsoft software goes on sale (news.com)
Dell Has Three Prices For One Part (www.gripe2ed.com)
EULAs and DRM Make Ugly Music Together (www.gripe2ed.com)
Amtrak Fires Its President in Dispute Over Future (New York Times)
An Organic Cash Cow (New York Times)
A chat with the brains behind Myst (www.macworld.com)
Amazon looks to solve problems that stump computers (news.com)
Microsoft's Secret Bug Squasher (Wired)
Upgrade Instructions Considered Necessary (cafe.elharo.com)
78%, or, It's Official: Texas Hates Gays (www.drunkandretired.com)
Battling Bugs (Wired)
Evolutionists Are Wrong! (Wired)
Money's Nice, but Freedom's Nicer (Wired)
Mac takes bite out of Windows (Seattle Times)
C.I.A. Asks Criminal Inquiry Over Secret (New York Times)
Evolution Slate Outpolls Rivals (New York Times)
History's Worst Software Bugs (wired.com)
Fliers Already Peg 2005 as the Year of Gritted Teeth (New York Times)
Doctors say ERs not ready for a disaster (www.nola.com)
A Tale of Disaster and Two Courts (www.law.com)
Don't sweat unit tests (JavaWorld)
Into the mist of serialization myths (JavaWorld)
And Now to 'Streamline' King Coal's Beheading of Appalachia (New York Times)
The Analog Hole in your Datacenter (blogs.sun.com)
Storm Over Brockes' Fakery (counterpunch.org)
The FBI's Secret Scrutiny (Washington Post)
The Forgotten of Africa, Wasting Away in Jails Without Trial (New York Times)
The Shy, Egg-Stealing Neighbor You Didn't Know You Had (New York Times)
And Sometimes, the Island Is Marooned on You (New York Times)
Apple sounds alarm over QuickTime flaws (news.com)
Next-Gen "Analog Hole" Legislation Proposed (www.extremedrm.com)
Fatal Flaw Weakens RFID Passports (Wired)
Corruption May Have Helped Undermine City Levees (www.latimes.com)
Teenager finds sperm donor dad on internet (The Guardian)
Alienware Sucks! (www.badsoftware.com)
10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers (New York Times)
Boing Boing: Hollywood after the Anal. Hole again (www.boingboing.net)
Chat Room That Built the World (Wired)
Ross doesn’t trust Microsoft’s approach to Web (scobleizer.wordpress.com)
12 reasons MS doesn't cut it for web development (Loud Thinking) (www.loudthinking.com)
po-ru.com: OS X Trojan (po-ru.com)
Removing Sony's CD 'rootkit' kills Windows (The Register)
NetBeans 5.0 Beta...ouch (weblogs.java.net)
Tool Smells (edgibbs.com)
Throw another skirt on the Barbie (www.nola.com)
New Orleans priest recalls harrowing ministry after Katrina (www.catholic.org)
A New Look at Test Driven Development (blog.daveastels.com)
Test Anti-Pattern: Proving The Code is Written Like the Code Is Written (pezra.barelyenough.org)
Write GUI Code Last (homepage.mac.com)
Emma Brockes interview: Noam Chomsky (The Guardian)
Doubts Cast on Vietnam Incident, but Secret Study Stays Classified (New York Times)
Comments on the tread pool example in "Java Network Programming" by Harold (knight.cis.temple.edu)
FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations (Washington Post)
Dual-core chips: Twice as nice? (www.macworld.com)
Arctic Map Vanishes, and Oil Area Expands (New York Times)
Ensuring Speed and Openness at the Java Community Process: A Conversation With Onno Kluyt (java.sun.com)
Did you know about Japex? (weblogs.java.net)
Blanco lifts ban on evictions (www.nola.com)
FEMA aide says pleas unheeded or FEMA aide says SOS disregarded (www.sfgate.com)
:: Interviews : OpenOffice.org 2.0: An Office Suite With No Horizons (madpenguin.org)
Old Ways of Life Are Fading as the Arctic Thaws (New York Times)
Furor Grows Over Internet Bugging (Wired)
Sue Companies, Not Coders (Wired)
DVD Jon Lands Dream Job Stateside (Wired)
Inspirational Linux Posters (www.arouse.net)
Creating Passionate Users: Making happy users (headrush.typepad.com)
After weathering storm, many tenants are evicted (www.nola.com)
Sun hits the books (news.com)
Forrester: Blu-ray winning drawn-out format war (news.com)
Sun releases Jini with open-source license (news.com)
QTJ 10/16/05: WTF? (www.onjava.com)
Official: Swing is the Dominant GUI Toolkit (weblogs.java.net)
CSP for Java programmers, Part 1 (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Hunting Habits of Wolves Change Ecological Balance in Yellowstone (New York Times)
BitTorrent: The Great Disrupter (www.fortune.com)
Make groceries, catch a movie, walk the dog (www.nola.com)
Loggers, Scorning the Law, Ravage the Amazon (New York Times)
Critical Windows patch may wreak PC havoc (news.com)
DUI Defendants Skip Charge By Asking How Test Works (tampatrib.com)
The Microsoft Protection Racket (www.pcmag.com)
Diagnostic Tests with Ant (www.onjava.com)
Seeing Is Believing (PBS)
Courts' Slow Recovery Begins at Train Station (New York Times)
Creditors' Role in Counseling Draws Critics (New York Times)
Unexpected Downside of Wind Power (Wired)
King Midas returns to Big Easy aquarium (www.nola.com)
Plant life among the ruins (www.nola.com)
F.D.A. to Weigh At (New York Times)
Expert: Hold developers liable for flaws (news.com)
Animal rescue work enters a grim phase (www.nola.com)
= Set Your Priorities (www.joelonsoftware.com)
Forced From New Orleans, but Neighbors Still (New York Times)
African Food for Africa's Starving Is Roadblocked in Congress (New York Times)
Machine Makes Dishes on Demand (Wired)
£200,000 payout for couple blighted by bypass (The Guardian)
End of the vine (The Guardian)
Executive Privilege and Privileged Executives (www.louisianaweekly.com)
Security pros savage Tsunami hacker verdict (The Register)
Resentment Flares Over Fees for Internet Access at Hotels (New York Times)
Liberal Hopes Ebb in Post (New York Times)
A convicted hacker debunks some myths (www.cnn.com)
Big Car, Big Tax Credit (Wired)
ArticleS.UncleBob.TheThreeRulesOfTdd (www.butunclebob.com)
As others profit, Katrina survivors suffer (www.suntimes.com)
Taking on software liability (BBC)
You need not be paranoid to fear RFID (www.boston.com)
Want Social Condemnation With Your Justice? Tune In Judge Judy (New York Times)
How the City Sank (New York Times)
FEMA Pet Peeve: PETS Legislation? (www.bayoubuzz.com)
Do-It-Yourself MIDP on Mac OS X (developers.sun.com)
Louisiana Coast No Longer as Nature Intended (www.kxtv10.com)
Experts Unlock Clues to Spread of 1918 Flu Virus (New York Times)
F.B.I. Widens Investigation in New Jersey Espionage Case (New York Times)
Senate Moves to Protect Military Prisoners Despite Veto Threat (New York Times)
Microsoft's Linux-related patents rejected (news.com)
Apache's Beehive 1.0 generates buzz (news.com)
The Player (Wired)
Code Coverage, Feedback and Open Source (www.procata.com)
Security fears as flu virus that killed 50 million is recreated (The Guardian)
Why I Might Switch Back… (www.russellbeattie.com)
Fact and fiction in the Microsoft-SCO relationship (news.com)
» Is desktop Linux stuck on stupid? (blogs.zdnet.com)
Serenity - Uncle Orson Reviews Everything (www.hatrack.com)
Some Experts Say It's Time to Evacuate the Coast (for Good) (New York Times)
Google, Sun plan partnership (news.com)
Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery Unraveled (Wired)
Agile Project Planning: Are Acceptance Tests an Agile Specification? (www.extremeplanner.com)
Partisan politics storms in wake of Katrina's fury (www.herald-mail.com)
Locked Away Forever After Crimes as Teenagers (New York Times)
Ubuntu carves niche in Linux landscape (news.com)
Code Coverage Analysis (www.bullseye.com)
9th Ward has history, but does it have a future? (msnbc.msn.com)
Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends, revisited (IBM DeveloperWorks)
A Skeptic Under Pressure (www.latimes.com)
The Peace of Mind of Home Insurance, Unless You Use It (New York Times)
Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon (www.time.com)
'Serenity' earns director Whedon spot on sci-fi's Mount Rushmore (www.sfgate.com)
Serenity's a Smarter Space Opera (Wired)
Top Ten Arguments Against Gay Marriage (linuxintegrators.com)
Accidental tyranny (The Guardian)
FBI to get veto power over PC software? (news.com)
New Orleans cops among looters (www.cnn.com)
Phantom Constituents in the Census (New York Times)
Nun Terrorized by Terror Watch (Wired)
Battling Google, Microsoft Changes How It Builds Software (online.wsj.com)
Record haul of 20,000 new species expected (The Guardian)
3 in 82nd Airborne Say Beating Iraqi Prisoners Was Routine (New York Times)
This is turning into the ethnic cleansing of New Orleans (The Guardian)
Suspicious behaviour on the tube (The Guardian)
Aha! Video Straight to a Computer (New York Times)
Kill the Light, Save a Bird (New York Times)
Paper Trail Urged as E-Voting Fix (Wired)
Evacuees Without Cars (www.metroactive.com)
Future uncertain for flooded, impoverished area of city (www.clarionledger.com)
Javalobby Launches Subversion-based Collaboration Platform (www.javalobby.org)
TiVo Users Fear Recording Restrictions (Washington Post)
Sturgeon Stocks Are in Decline Around World, Survey Reports (New York Times)
The Dark Side of the Moon (New York Times)
Gaming the Price of Leadership (New York Times)
The New Orleans Shotgun: Down but Not Out (New York Times)
Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb (blog.outer-court.com)
Towards a better dongle (www.macdevcenter.com)
Eminent domain on Senate's agenda (www.newsobserver.com)
Haitian children sold as cheap labourers and prostitutes for little more than £50 (The Guardian)
Lawsuit Filed by Inmates Held in N.O. Prison During Katrina (www.wafb.com)
Workers Race to Fix New Orleans Levees (www.newsradio610.com)
NOPD officer who worked Convention Center describes the days after Katrina (blogs.citypages.com)
Saddam's Revenge (www.time.com)
Doctor says FEMA ordered him to stop treating hurricane victims (www.2theadvocate.com)
California Wants to Serve a Warning With Fries (New York Times)
House Bill Would Limit U.S. Power to Protect Species (New York Times)
A Wimp on Genocide (New York Times)
The Chumbawamba Factor (www.pitchforkmedia.com)
Understanding Unit Testing (jflowers.blogspot.com)
Why User Errors Are Your Fault (www.extremeplanner.com)
Study Attributes Stronger Storms to Warmer Seas (New York Times)
Neighboring town denied evacuees (www.sptimes.com)
Mississippi Sues Insurers Over Damage From Storm (New York Times)
The XStream library offers clean, easy XML serialization of POJOs. (weblogs.java.net)
A Chicago Alderman's Proposal to Ban Foie Gras Stirs Up a Debate (New York Times)
Sun upgrades servers with UltraSparc IV+ debut (news.com)
The Law of Unintended Consequences (www.fortune.com)
A Bridge Too Far (www.washingtoncitypaper.com)
Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses' Teeth (www.theonion.com)
WIND ON CAPITOL HILL (www.newyorker.com)
General: Guard Deployment in Iraq Hurt Katrina Response (www.truthout.org)
iPod nano Stress testing (arstechnica.com)
The Big Uneasy (www.sistermachinegun.com)
Think Piece: Blasphemy About New Orleans (www.blackcommentator.com)
Aging Nuclear Power Plants May Affect Emissions Pact (New York Times)
The Very Cold Case of the Glacier (New York Times)
Toyota Says It Plans Eventually to Offer an All (New York Times)
A Set of Unit Testing Rules (Artima)
Java systems target China market (english1.people.com.cn)
An early look at JUnit 4 (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Legislating creativity--feds plan patent reform (news.com)
Sierra Club Gets Behind the Wheel (Wired)
Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan (Washington Post)
Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp (Wired)
OOPSLA 2005 (weblogs.java.net)
Earned-Value and Burn Charts (alistair.cockburn.us)
Preemptive Nuclear Strikes by USA - Now Only A Matter of Time (blog.taragana.com)
The New Orleans hostage crisis (xymphora.blogspot.com)
Sun Microsystems Returns to Its Roots to Determine a New Direction (New York Times)
A Rush of Stories (New York Times)
Levees Failed Nature Refuge Just as They Did Humans (New York Times)
Don't dumb me down (The Guardian)
Emergency Services, Web Services and Industry Standards (blogs.sun.com)
On being a "Microsoft shop" (www.cincomsmalltalk.com)
Schneier on Security: Katrina and Security (www.schneier.com)
Community Bank Depends on Clients Who Lost All (wb32tv.trb.com)
FEMA'S FAILURES (www.washingtonmonthly.com)
A 'borrowed' car -- and she's out (www.suntimes.com)
For those cut off, a life primeval (www.sptimes.com)
The real heroes and sheroes of New Orleans (www.socialistworker.org)
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security (www.ranum.com)
Flooding Puts Universities in a Bind Regarding Tuition (New York Times)
These Urban Cyclists Know When to Fold 'Em (New York Times)
Business, Though Not as Usual, Starts Stirring in New Orleans (New York Times)
Bush Cronies to Mop Up Katrina (Wired)
Java Research License Update (weblogs.java.net)
The meaning of 'city' A lesson New Orleans taught us, lost on Crescent City's rebuilders? (www.al.com)
Microsoft tries to recruit me (esr.ibiblio.org)
Holdouts on Dry Ground Say, 'Why Leave Now?' (New York Times)
Police Begin Seizing Guns of Civilians (New York Times)
Astrodome Radio Station Blocked (Wired)
Blood Feud (Wired)
Power to the victims of New Orleans (The Guardian)
Hunger strikers pledge to die in Guantánamo (The Guardian)
$5,000 Fine for EULA Violation (www.gripe2ed.com)
Money Flowed to Questionable Projects (Washington Post)
The Deadly Bigotry of Low Expectations?: Did the rumor mill help kill Katrina victims? (www.reason.com)
The Big Easy vs. the Last Frontier: How America's piggiest state can help get New Orleans back on its feet (www.reason.com)
Terrorists Don't Do Movie Plots (Wired)
Officials foresee long, risky job in 'toxic gumbo' (www.courier-journal.com)
Voice of Reason: Exorcisms, Fictional and Fatal (livescience.com)
Flooding Recedes in New Orleans; U.S. Inquiry Is Set (New York Times)
Putting Down New Roots on More Solid Ground (New York Times)
Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are Reprimanded (New York Times)
Same Sex Marriage Wins Vote in California (New York Times)
New Orleans mayor threatens forced evacuations as flood waters slowly seep away (wire.jacksonville.com)
Still alive amid the chaos: rescuers arrive at last to discover the forgotten survivors (The Guardian)
E-voting plans shelved after extensive trials (The Guardian)
When Auditors Go Astray, What Director Dares Say So? (New York Times)
The Larger Shame (New York Times)
Powering a new generation of cars (news.com)
Criminals to 'adapt to ID cards' (BBC)
Too Many People in Nature's Way (Wired)
HEADS UP: scrambling binaries in CVS and source download - gone tomorr (www.netbeans.org)
Israeli soldiers tell of indiscriminate killings by army and a culture of impunity (The Guardian)
In Tale of Two Families, a Chasm Between Haves and Have-Nots (New York Times)
Receding floodwaters expose the dark side of America - but will anything change? (The Guardian)
Empty, ruined and desperate (The Guardian)
Law Officers, Overwhelmed, Are Quitting the Force (New York Times)
In Manhattan, Poor Make 2¢ for Each Dollar to the Rich (New York Times)
EFF: The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User's Guide to DRM in Online Music (www.eff.org)
Court docs: Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Google (news.com)
Mirror, mirror, staring into space (news.com)
Dinosaurs may have been a fluffy lot - Sunday Times - Times Online (www.timesonline.co.uk)
Hollywood, Microsoft align on new Windows (news.com)
You're on your own, Britain's victims told (The Guardian)
New Orleans Left to the Dead and Dying (www.chronicleonline.com)
They Knew What to Expect (Wired)
Intricate Flood Protection Long a Focus of Dispute (New York Times)
Designing Perl 6 (slack.yak.net)
From Margins of Society to Center of the Tragedy (New York Times)
A Can't (New York Times)
Government Saw Flood Risk but Not Levee Failure (New York Times)
The Interdictor (mgno.com)
Banished Whistle (New York Times)
The Storm After the Storm (New York Times)
A message to Sun engineers: Please stop making my code ugly (joust.kano.net)
Why city's defences were down (The Guardian)
One side can be wrong (The Guardian)
Software is too expensive to build cheaply...: JUnit Architecture Redux (twasink.net)
NOLA.com: Times-Picayune Breaking News Weblog (www.nola.com)
In Bangalore, India, a Cuddle With Your Baby Requires a Bribe (New York Times)
Slowing growth at Dell raises concerns (news.ft.com)
Rules to Warm Detroit's Heart (New York Times)
As School-Building Plan Fails, New Jersey Is Left With Slums (New York Times)
Top Official Urged Change in How Parks Are Managed (New York Times)
Ahh, the good ol' days (dailykos.com)
Arctic could see ice-free summers in 100 years (news.com)
Microsoft Research DRM talk (www.dashes.com)
Secular Iraqis Say New Charter May Curb Rights (New York Times)
The Swing Connection: Swing Sightings (java.sun.com)
Creating an "Absolute Singleton" (surguy.net)
Kirill Grouchnikov's Blog: How single can your singleton instance be? (weblogs.java.net)
Looking for Friendly Skies? Stay on the Ground (New York Times)
Grasping the Depth of Time as a First Step in Understanding Evolution (New York Times)
The $10,000 Question (New York Times)
In Explaining Life's Complexity, Darwinists and Doubters Clash (New York Times)
Don't Prettify Our History (New York Times)
Sun launches open-source digital rights plan (news.com)
Mac OS X Hints: Watch file system activity in real time (www.macworld.com)
Under US noses, brutal insurgents rule Sunni citadel (The Guardian)
In breakthrough, cloned wildcats prove ability to reproduce (www.physorg.com)
Sun sets up open-source office (news.com)
Extreme Programming vs. Interaction Design (www.fawcette.com)
Police knew Brazilian was 'not bomb risk' (The Guardian)
Is Your Boss a Psychopath? (www.fastcompany.com)
Interview with John Gruber (www.guidebookgallery.org)
Sun's Linux killer shows promise (The Register)
Take with a pinch of sodium chloride (The Guardian)
Chinese Cryptologists Get Invitations to a U.S. Conference, but No Visas (New York Times)
Olympics bill comes under attack (BBC)
New claims emerge over Menezes death (The Guardian)
Leaks raise sharp questions about police tactics (The Guardian)
Asian men targeted in stop and search (The Guardian)
Does SBC Play Good Cop/Bad Cop With Customers? (www.gripe2ed.com)
Deal in Turkey (New York Times)
Fighting the Last Hijackers (New York Times)
Fuel Economy Plan Seen Omitting Rule for Big S.U.V.'s (New York Times)
In the Hospital, a Degrading Shift From Person to Patient (New York Times)
Microsoft rejects Visual Studio delay request (news.com)
Creepy Cams Abound in NYC (Wired)
Not Invented Here? (weblogs.java.net)
FCC wants to tap into wireless (news.zdnet.com)
Scary Legals, Redux (www.tbray.org)
Fat Chance (New York Times)
Data Dumped in Secure Flight Test (Wired)
Just say 'no' to police searches (www.flexyourrights.org)
An Interview with Douglas Adams, Winter 1998-1999 (www.americanatheist.org)
Reformer Without Results (New York Times)
The Terrorist and the Grid (New York Times)
Pro Tells Why the Little Guy Just Can't Win (New York Times)
Trying a New Sport? Sign a Waiver, Then Hope for the Best (New York Times)
When meat is not murder (The Guardian)
Global-Warming Discrepancy Solved (Wired)
The Gloves Come Off (PBS)
The Fishbowl: The Head First Girl's Double Life (fishbowl.pastiche.org)
Don't blame the locusts (The Guardian)
Eight year jail term for Israeli who shot Briton (The Guardian)
HP calls on IBM, Sun to nix OS licenses (www.cbronline.com)
Database ACIDity (weblogs.java.net)
We deserve a better proxy support! (weblogs.java.net)
Ant and XML Build Files (web.archive.org)
Warming hits 'tipping point' (The Guardian)
Messages of fear in hi-tech invisible ink (The Guardian)
Ohio Critics of G.O.P. Start Battle to Change Election Process (New York Times)
U.S. Defends Detentions at Airports (New York Times)
GPL3 first public draft due early 2006 (news.com)
Leaving Features Out (www.userscape.com)
Why Python Unicode Sucks (blog.ianbicking.org)
Court Rules for Jury Trial in Audit Suit (New York Times)
Debunking the Drug War (New York Times)
Hacknot - Beware The GUI Builder (www.hacknot.info)
Brit License Plates Get Chipped (Wired)
Xiaobin Lu's Blog: Perception == Reality (weblogs.java.net)
Creating Passionate Users: Does college matter? (headrush.typepad.com)
Creating Passionate Users: Does college matter? (headrush.typepad.com)
Secret courts for terror cases (The Guardian)
FCC schizo on DSL, wiretapping (news.com)
The New Robber Barons (PBS)
Will the Flight Be on Time? It's Anybody's Guess (New York Times)
The Canaries Had Their Coal Mines (New York Times)
A Richer Life Beckons Congress (New York Times)
Fossil Poachers Find Easy Pickings on Remote Federal Land (New York Times)
Hope for Hungry Children (New York Times)
What is Consulting? (Artima)
The Early History of Ant Development (codefeed.com)
Looking at 'findbugs' (weblogs.java.net)
Sun chiefs collect bonuses despite missed targets (news.com)
Author backs forced-marriage ban (The Guardian)
Birth of the Lisa (braeburn.ath.cx)
A New Hope for Dreams Suspended by Segregation (New York Times)
On Farthest U.S. Shores, Iraq Is a Way to a Dream (New York Times)
Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents (New York Times)
Immigration Raid at Plant Leaves Children in Limbo (New York Times)
How Wall Street Wrecked United's Pension (New York Times)
You'll Never Do Research in This Town Again (New York Times)
All Worked Up and Wondering Why (New York Times)
Tow Trucks Prowl, and Authorities Crack Down (New York Times)
A Hacker Games the Hotel (Wired)
Usability Testing with Morae (www.joelonsoftware.com)
The little rock causing a galactic storm (The Guardian)
How I learnt to love the bargain basement break (The Guardian)
Scientists Warn Fewer Kinds of Fish Are Swimming the Oceans (New York Times)
Ruling Sets Off Tug of War Over Private Property (New York Times)
Joi Ito's Web: Similarity between contracts and open source code (joi.ito.com)
Whitedust: Interview: Paul Watson (www.whitedust.net)
Java theory and practice: Be a good (event) listener (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Check Cracked under 24 hours (blog.taragana.com)
When engineers (sort-of) read licenses - a cautionary tale (weblogs.java.net)
Military's Opposition to Harsh Interrogation Is Outlined (New York Times)
Study Says Echinacea Has No Effect on Colds (New York Times)
Project Matisse: An update (weblogs.java.net)
I prefer my JARs sunny-side up (weblogs.java.net)
Transcendental Meditation (blogs.sun.com)
Things That Make You Smart (www.blainebuxton.com)
EFF: DeepLinks (www.eff.org)
Motherhood and Apple Pie (lesscode.org)
In Search of a New Energy Source, China Rides the Wind (New York Times)
Sun Earnings Beat Forecasts, but Sales Continue to Slip (New York Times)
Rant: I found Subversion immature (weblogs.java.net)
Tip: Javadoc as XML (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Radio Payoffs Are Described as Sony Settles (New York Times)
South Africa Puts the Unemployed to Work, Restoring Land and Water (New York Times)
The Problem with SUVs - Drive Clean Only - Sierra Club (www.sierraclub.org)
Tragedy should not blind us to what has changed (The Guardian)
Hitting the High Notes (www.joelonsoftware.com)
Security Violation Disclosures (www.gripe2ed.com)
Butterfly unlocks evolution secret (BBC)
Scaring Us Senseless (New York Times)
Man shot in terror hunt was innocent young Brazilian (The Guardian)
Vista, the station-wagon of operating systems (oreillynet.com)
Advanced Synth (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Big iron lessons, Part 1: FPU architecture, now and then (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Government Defies an Order to Release Iraq Abuse Photos (New York Times)
When Just Putting It Out on the Curb Isn't Enough (New York Times)
Endangered Ferret Needs Its Prey, Furthering Ranchers' Woes (New York Times)
In New York, It's Open Bag or Find Exits (New York Times)
How Costco Became the Anti (New York Times)
Congress (Wired)
Everybody loves Eric Raymond (geekz.co.uk)
Interview with Dan Kaminsky on Microsoft's security (www.securityfocus.com)
Interview: Richard Thieme (www.whitedust.net)
Collapsed Ice Shelf Exposes Life (Wired)
IBM steps into open-source Java project (news.com)
Police ask for tough new powers (The Guardian)
Riot control ray gun worries scientists (news.com)
Collection overused as an argument in Java Libraries? (Artima)
Ken Arnold's Blog: Generics Considered Harmful (weblogs.java.net)
Georgia's Undemocratic Voter Law (New York Times)
TestingGUIApplications (wiki.java.net)
Accessibility for test automation (weblogs.java.net)
Building Cocoa-Java Apps with Eclipse (www.macdevcenter.com)
Britons face Iraq war crime trials (The Guardian)
For Some, the Tax Cut on Investment Income Is Not as Sweet as Advertised (New York Times)
Whose Oil Is It? Property Rights at Issue in China (New York Times)
Reporter Says He First Learned of C.I.A. Operative From Rove (New York Times)
Jail for Nigerian bank fraudster (BBC)
Intel to cut Linux out of the content market (www.theinquirer.net)
Ron Moore's Deep Space Journey (New York Times)
Perl.com: Ten Essential Development Practices (perl.com)
Tube bombs 'linked to Iraq conflict' (The Guardian)
Taking property is bad economics (www.washtimes.com)
Lucky Paris: Why would you want to host the Olympics? (www.reason.com)
A Pass on Privacy? (New York Times)
Ruling Lets U.S. Restart Trials at Guantánamo (New York Times)
What to Do After Your Data Is Stolen (New York Times)
Immigration Sting Puts 2 U.S. Agencies at Odds (New York Times)
Dell falls off the Cluetrain (news.com)
David Buck - Blog: Eclipse - The Programmer's Tamagochi (www.cincomsmalltalk.com)
Finger Scanning At Disney Parks Causes Concern (www.local6.com)
A Defining Moment for Spyware EULAs (www.gripe2ed.com)
Schwarzenegger Is Drawing Fire for an Ad Deal (New York Times)
F.B.I. Message Says Agency Lacked Evidence in Terror Arrest (New York Times)
All Rock, No Action (New York Times)
'Write once, run anywhere' not working for phones (news.com)
IBM officially kills OS/2, suggests switch to Linux (theinquirer.net)
Sun Opens Up (www.informationweek.com)
Shiites bring rigid piety to Iraq's south (www.christiansciencemonitor.com)
Sun's CIO backs blogs despite lawyer worries (ZDNet)
10 Sunnis Suffocate in Iraqi Police Custody (New York Times)
New H-1B visas still available (news.com)
SUV Redemption Sticker (Wired)
British suicide bombers carried out London attacks, say police (The Guardian)
Microsoft Hall of Innovation (www.vcnet.com)
Cancer Drugs Offer Hope, but Expense Worries Doctors and Patients (New York Times)
Forget Legroom. Our Backs Are Killing Us. (New York Times)
Exxon Mobil Becomes Focus of a Boycott (New York Times)
In Hawaii, a Chance to Heal, Long Delayed (New York Times)
At White House, a Day of Silence on Rove's Role in C.I.A. Leak (New York Times)
All eyes on new DVDs' format war (news.com)
Next Generation - Doomed: How Id Lost its Crown (www.next-gen.biz)
Eclipse vs. NetBeans Celebrity Deathmatch! (kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu)
Sword Play (www.sptimes.ru)
US imposes controls on a new security threat - birdwatchers (The Guardian)
"The Myth of Open-Source" (www.businessweek.com)
Feds Fear Air Broadband Terror (Wired)
For Time Reporter, Decision to Testify Came After Frenzied Last (New York Times)
Israeli Barrier in Jerusalem Will Cut Off 55,000 Arabs (New York Times)
Londoners, Remembering Crises Old and New, Just 'Get On With It' (New York Times)
Unnecessary Powers (New York Times)
Bus bomb clues may hold key to terror attack (The Guardian)
Blair's blowback (The Guardian)
Report Says Mitterrand Approved Sinking of Greenpeace Ship (New York Times)
Few Wealthy Farmers Owe Estate Taxes, Report Says (New York Times)
It's All Happening at the Tulsa Zoo (New York Times)
U.S. Says It Will Release American Held in Iraq (New York Times)
Body scan machines to be used on Tube passengers - Personal Tech - Times Online (technology.timesonline.co.uk)
Oracle to offer JDeveloper tool for free (InfoWorld)
Email spying 'could have stopped killers' (The Guardian)
Eminent Disdain (New York Times)
Newspaper Withholding Two Articles After Jailing (New York Times)
Online Data Gets Personal: Cell Phone Records for Sale (Washington Post)
Wired subscriber gets a jolt (sfgate.com)
DaveAstels.com » A New Look at Test Driven Development (daveastels.com)
Going to a Trade Show (software.ericsink.com)
GripeLog Poll: Box Office Blots (www.gripe2ed.com)
If It's a Muslim Problem, It Needs a Muslim Solution (New York Times)
Free to Choose Obesity? (New York Times)
One Family's Tale of Tax Shelter Gone Awry (New York Times)
Sunbeltblog: Microsoft sets Claria to "Ignore" (sunbeltblog.blogspot.com)
Microsoft's personnel puzzle (news.com)
E-Vote Guidelines Need Work (Wired)
Who's to Blame for Valerie Plame? (Wired)
Microsoft Faces Old Antagonist (Wired)
European Patent Law Rejected (Wired)
The Food Industry Empire Strikes Back (New York Times)
When Entrepreneurs Risk It All and Lose (New York Times)
Straight, Gay or Lying? Bisexuality Revisited (New York Times)
In the stolen-data trade, Moscow is the Wild East (www.globetechnology.com)
Many hurt as blasts rock London (The Guardian)
Free Willie: An Environmental Studies Class Fights for Fontenot (www.emagazine.com)
Is it Academic? (www.artima.com)
JavaOne 2005, Day 2: Hitting the Jackpot! (www.artima.com)
Eclipse's Culture of Shipping (www.artima.com)
Schools in Thailand Under Ethnic Siege (New York Times)
European Parliament Fails to Agree on Computer Patents (New York Times)
» Might JavaOne have been NetBeans' last stand? (blogs.zdnet.com)
Apache Geronimo passes Java test | CNET News.com (news.com)
Sun taps Java for RFID (news.com)
Sun's foes renew Java vows (news.com)
Your Land Is My Land (New York Times)
How Quantum Physics Can Teach Biologists About Evolution (New York Times)
Bill Would Reduce Government's Role in Protecting Species (New York Times)
The sobering of America (The Guardian)
Increase in the Number of Documents Classified by the Government (New York Times)
UK aid funds Iraqi torture units (The Guardian)
Entering a dark age of innovation (www.newscientist.com)
Lost Newton manuscript rediscovered at Royal Society (www.royalsociety.org)
Make prejudice history (The Guardian)
The Lawyer Companies Love to Hate (New York Times)
Gosling: A closer look at Java (news.zdnet.com)
The Nontaxpaying Affluent Grew by 15% in One Year (New York Times)
British Scientists Say Carbon Dioxide Is Turning the Oceans Acidic (New York Times)
Fired Officer Is Suing Wal (New York Times)
ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore" (www.onlamp.com)
Perl's Chip Salzenberg Sued, Home Raided (yro.slashdot.org)
Insane - The postmortem memory leak analysis tool (performance.netbeans.org)
_System of the World_ illuminates _Cryptonomicon_ (www.talkaboutsciencefiction.com)
Paper Describes Potential Poisoning of Milk (New York Times)
Case of Mad Cow in Texas Is First to Originate in U.S. (New York Times)
Java to appear in next-gen DVD players (news.com)
Will Java spec shake up integration market? (news.com)
Sun to buy integration outfit SeeBeyond (news.com)
Sun faces open-source swarm (news.com)
BEA plans chip-based Java speed boost (news.com)
Sun cools down Linux desktop plan (news.com)
Sun makes case for open-source schooling (news.com)
An Interview with Jack Kelliher of pcHDTV (digitalmedia.oreilly.com)
Building My MythTV Box, Part 1: Hardware (digitalmedia.oreilly.com)
What Happens to BitTorrent After Grokster? (blog.ericgoldman.org)
Congress to Get Raise (New York Times)
Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time (New York Times)
Sun Buys Software Maker (New York Times)
The Court Has Ruled So Enter the Geeks (New York Times)
Medical Marijuana? Rhode Island Says Yes (New York Times)
Gay Marriage Is Extended Nationwide in Canada (New York Times)
I.B.M. Agrees to Modify Its Software for Sun Line (New York Times)
The Not (New York Times)
Bureaucrats and Indians (New York Times)
Court Declines to Rule on Case of Reporters' Refusal to Testify (New York Times)
Supreme Court rules against file swapping (news.com)
Lawsuit seeks disclosure in credit card heist (news.com)
Smaller outfits look to Java (news.com)
Theft by any other name (news.com)
Beyond Wi-Fi: Laptop heaven but at a price (news.com)
McNealy on message (news.com)
Rich states told to stop poaching doctors (The Guardian)
Music industry victory will spark file-sharing lawsuits (The Guardian)
Adventures With Microsoft Security Update Support (www.gripe2ed.com)
Two Groups Charge Abuse of Witness Law (New York Times)
Leave My Child Alone! (leavemychildalone.org)
Advertisers Pour More Money Into the Big Screen (New York Times)
Housing Contractor Contracts Filled With Sneakwrap, Too (www.gripe2ed.com)
Experts Doubt C.I.A. Operatives Will Stand Trial in Italy (New York Times)
In Battle to Pick Next Justice, Right Says, Avoid a Kennedy (New York Times)
Mocks Aren't Stubs (martinfowler.com)
Stubs aren't Fakes (www.jnsk.se)
The Race to Alaska Before It Melts (New York Times)
Maybe Saving Money Is Just for Chumps (New York Times)
Endangered Species Act Faces Broad New Challenges (New York Times)
Safer Vehicles for Soldiers: A Tale of Delays and Glitches (New York Times)
In Italy, Anger at U.S. Tactics Colors Spy Case (New York Times)
Testing Changes Ordered After U.S. Mad Cow Case (New York Times)
Tax Cheats at the Government Trough (New York Times)
Thirteen With the C.I.A. Sought by Italy in a Kidnapping (New York Times)
On Autism's Cause, It's Parents vs. Research (New York Times)
Chemically misting hard drives and other remote data security solutions (www.engadget.com)
Property rights have become the new sacred cow (www.hcn.org)
Unclear on American Campus: What the Foreign Teacher Said (New York Times)
Cutting here, but hiring over there (news.com)
The red herring of data protection (news.com)
Looking at FreeBSD 6 and Beyond (www.osnews.com)
You say Eclipse, I say IBM (weblogs.java.net)
Software piracy 'seen as normal' (BBC)
Gunning for the Puzzle Title (Wired)
13 teens face felonies (www.berksmontnews.com)
Intellisense Based Programming (www.cincomsmalltalk.com)
Cruel to be kind? (The Guardian)
Scripting Java: The BeanShell JSR (www.artima.com)
Arrests Follow Searches in Medical Marijuana Raids (New York Times)
In Ohio Vote, Woes, Yes, Fraud, No (New York Times)
Tales of the Poor, Working to Survive in America (New York Times)
Law Backfires, Stranding Orphans in Romania (New York Times)
Former judge defends his bid to break up Microsoft (news.com)
Dell's N.C. plant the target of a lawsuit | CNET News.com (news.com)
Indian cracks Microsoft's anti-piracy program (inhome.rediff.com)
Patterns and Practice (www.artima.com)
Beware your contract (codebetter.com)
Desktop Java with SWT: an interview with Steve Northover (www.osnews.com)
The simple things are hardest (The Guardian)
Investigation into call centre breaches (The Guardian)
Iraq May Be Prime Place for Training of Militants, C.I.A. Report Concludes (New York Times)
Sun tries sharing Java again; still not open source | CNET News.com (news.com)
New supercomputers overhaul top ranks (news.com)
JBoss servers comply with standards (news.com)
Driving Big Brother (Wired)
The tech exec who broke federal law (and why the law is broken) (www.darknet.com)
Open Source Smack-Down (www.forbes.com)
Opting Out in the Debate on Evolution (New York Times)
In Chess, Masters Again Fight Machines (New York Times)
Putting the DMCA on trial (news.com)
Patent absurdity (The Guardian)
21st Century Slave Labor - in the United States of America (www.codebetter.com)
Open letter to Adobe (www.aquick.org)
Interview with Bosatsu Consulting's Brian Sletten (www.vanwardtechnologies.com)
Lost Credit Data Improperly Kept, Company Admits (New York Times)
Someone Else's Child (New York Times)
Libraries Say Yes, Officials Do Quiz Them About Users (New York Times)
The lost boys, thrown out of US sect so that older men can marry more wives (The Guardian)
For Illegal Immigrants, a Harsh Lesson (New York Times)
It's Getting Cheaper to Tap the Sun (New York Times)
Gateway Won't Honor Its Published Specs (www.gripe2ed.com)
The Osborne Effect (PBS)
What's the Matter With Ohio? (New York Times)
Questions, Bitterness and Exile for Queens Girl in Terror Case (New York Times)
Apple co-founder says innovation is no longer the driving force for PC firms (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Death by Tech Support (www.mobilemagazine.com)
Your ISP as Net watchdog (news.com)
Lawyer Says Military Tried to Coerce Detainee's Plea (New York Times)
Schiavo Autopsy Says Brain, Withered, Was Untreatable (New York Times)
Lawyers Fought U.S. Move to Curb Tobacco Penalty (New York Times)
Brendan's Roadmap Updates: JavaScript 1, 2, and in between (weblogs.mozillazine.org)
Why Java is Not My Favorite Language — Reason #16. (pezra.barelyenough.org)
Core Java Technology Features in Mustang (java.sun.com)
Technical Careers @ Microsoft : The talent landscape, and why I'm ready to lose it (blogs.msdn.com)
Mini-Microsoft: Bob Herbold, The "Fiefdom Syndrome," and Bob's Message to Microsoft (minimsft.blogspot.com)
Solaris engineers offer personal source-code tours (news.com)
Java flaws open door to hackers (news.com)
Selling Open Source (Dr. Dobbs)
Mmmmmm VM..... (weblogs.java.net)
New and Improved CVS support in NetBeans (weblogs.java.net)
Firing Clients (www.codebetter.com)
JUnit 4.0 in 10 minutes (www.instrumentalservices.com)
The Madrassa Myth (New York Times)
Raped, Kidnapped and Silenced (New York Times)
Less cursing, better pictures: 10 suggestions (news.com)
Mac OS X Tiger: For Developers (maczealots.com)
Microsoft censors Chinese blogs (BBC)
Sun opens the Jini Licensing Model (www.artima.com)
Free trade, the new con trick (www.smh.com.au)
Xen getting multiprocessor support (news.com)
While no longer taboo, body art still can be a sticky issue at work (www.detnews.com)
A clean set of wheels (The Guardian)
A Rubric For IT Analysis Papers (www.zedshaw.com)
Don't Follow the Money (New York Times)
Yes, Virginia, There Is an Answer (New York Times)
Microsoft bans 'democracy' for China web users (news.moneycentral.msn.com)
Why do you Hate Maven? (blogs.codehaus.org)
The Circus Maximus Syndrome (New York Times)
Scott Violet's Blog: Matisse: one step closer to cross platform layout nirvana (weblogs.java.net)
Core Java Technology Features in Mustang (java.sun.com)
.NET Undocumented: COmega (wesnerm.blogs.com)
Conscription of the past (The Guardian)
Britain accused of creating terror fears (The Guardian)
Matisse Demo (www.netbeans.org)
JUnit 4 overview (beust.com)
mindstorm: JUnit 4.0 (themindstorms.blogspot.com)
Lucrative Drug, Danger Signals and the F.D.A. (New York Times)
Keeping Up With Uncle Sam (Wired)
Bundling Java/SWT Applications for Mac OS X (www.borderlandconsulting.com)
Bundling SWT Apps for MacOSX (blogs.bytecode.com.au)
Legalization Now!: War-weary Colombia--and its Conservative Party--consider ending the drug war (www.reason.com)
How Schools Cheat: From underreporting violence to inflating graduation rates to fudging testscores, educators are lying to the American public. (www.reason.com)
Going for Broke (PBS)
Did Apple Sue the Rumor Blogs to Keep Intel Deal Quiet? (www.gripe2ed.com)
DEEP THROAT'S CRIMES: Mark Felt, Constitution-shredder (direland.typepad.com)
A fix for a broken patent system? (news.com)
'Biggest hacker' fights extradition (The Guardian)
The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: Transitive (news.com)
Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming (New York Times)
Erich Gamma on Flexibility and Reuse (www.artima.com)
Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush (The Guardian)
Why Intel is Bad for Apple (roderickmann.org)
In County Made Rich by Golf, Some Enclaves Are Left Behind (New York Times)
Intel deal may mean end to OS 9 support (news.com)
No West Side stadium? Fine (www.newsday.com)
Apple developers cautiously upbeat on Intel (news.com)
Films Capture Iraq's Brutal Truth (Wired)
CitiFinancial Data Goes Poof (Wired)
Apple and Intel OK With Coders (Wired)
Apple throws the switch, aligns with Intel (news.com)
Putting an end to the SWT/Swing nonsense (beust.com)
Plan Would Expand Ocean Fish Farming (New York Times)
What's Right About the PowerPC? (www.eweek.com)
Latest spectacle in movie watching (www.nydailynews.com)
The Mobility Myth (New York Times)
What was Sun thinking? (news.com)
Maybe it Meant Something, After All (powerlineblog.com)
After Hurricanes, an Unclear Future for 'Lake O' (New York Times)
Refugees in Limbo: Ordered Out of U.S., but With Nowhere to Go (New York Times)
Rights Group Defends Chastising of U.S. (New York Times)
New wrinkle in movie swapping | CNET News.com (news.com)
Magic with Merlin: Just another plain Frame (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Scheduling: Losing the Light (www.shirt-pocket.com)
Creating Passionate Users: Tell Microsoft it's YOUR passion (headrush.typepad.com)
The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software (www.gotw.ca)
RatioFrame: A Swing window that maintains its size ratio. (www.ditchnet.org)
In Tasmania, the Devil Now Faces Its Own Hell (New York Times)
Steroid Tests Ignore the 4th Amendment (New York Times)
joustlog » Sun produces another poorly designed API for Mustang: SystemTray (joust.kano.net)
Missing GPL detail may make it harder to enforce - ZDNet UK News (news.zdnet.co.uk)
United We Stand (in Line) (New York Times)
I was Deep Throat, says top FBI man (The Guardian)
C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights (New York Times)
In Rising Numbers, Lawyers Head for Guantánamo Bay (New York Times)
Microsoft security guru: Jot down your passwords (news.com)
Metaphor, Morality, and Politics (www.wwcd.org)
A Gamers' Manifesto (www.pointlesswasteoftime.com)
Why smart people defend bad ideas (www.scottberkun.com)
Petroleum Joyride Almost Over? (Wired)
Disrespecting Women Soldiers (New York Times)
Karl's New Manifesto (New York Times)
Honor Thy Teacher (New York Times)
Using Java compiler in your Web Start application (weblogs.java.net)
Chris Adamson's Blog: New Platforms, No Java (weblogs.java.net)
Ray Gans's Blog: Java Internal Use License (JIUL) released for JDK 5.0 (weblogs.java.net)
Developing GNOME Applications with Java (www.linuxjournal.com)
Windows rapidly approaching desktop usability (os.newsforge.com)
For Security, the Eyes Have It (Wired)
Bill Would Lift Dallas Limit on Southwest Air (New York Times)
Plan to Gather Student Data Draws Fire (New York Times)
Homeland Eyes, Right and Left (New York Times)
Surrogate Mothers' New Niche: Bearing Babies for Gay Couples (New York Times)
Government Shirked Its Duty to Wild Fish, a Judge Rules (New York Times)
Taming Tiger: AWT grows up (IBM DeveloperWorks)
The Future of Free Software Lies in The Past (Internet News)
Revenge of the Suckage (www.cincomsmalltalk.com)
Scandal of 'phantom' aid money (The Guardian)
Will the Channel Tunnel Rail Link restore our faith Britain railways? (The Guardian)
Pakistan shrine bomb kills 20 (The Guardian)
Evergreen Defense (www.gripe2ed.com)
HP Smart Chips Are Just Dumb (www.gripe2ed.com)
Phishers get personal (news.com)
OmniGraffle 4 updates interface, adds features (www.macworld.com)
The Farm-Subsidy Model of Financing Academia (New York Times)
With the Gloves Off (New York Times)
U.S. 'Thumbs Its Nose' at Rights, Amnesty Says (New York Times)
Wired 13.06: The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea (Wired)
U.S. Jacks Torrent Site (Wired)
Guantánamo is gulag of our time, says Amnesty (The Guardian)
Does an object exist if you can't test its identity? (JavaWorld)
Object Responsibility (www.developer.com)
Java Turns 10 (Internet News)
Afterlife for Old Computers Is Envisioned in Council Bill (New York Times)
Who Benefits from Outsourcing? Not the Line of Business (www.esj.com)
Evolving the Java Platform (68.236.189.240)
How to Use Design Patterns (www.artima.com)
What Women Want (New York Times)
To Save Its Canal, Panama Fights for Its Forests (New York Times)
Bypass found for Windows piracy check (news.com)
Balkan question (The Guardian)
Feds to fight the zombies (news.com)
Map Reveals Airstream Potential (Wired)
Want the Sith DVD? Go to Usenet (Wired)
Volez ce MP3! (Wired)
Dirty Secret: Coal Plants Could Be Much Cleaner (New York Times)
Bundling Java/SWT Applications for Mac OS X (www.borderlandconsulting.com)
Plan to Let F.B.I. Track Mail in Terrorism Inquiries (New York Times)
Galloway v The US Senate (blog.taragana.com)
how do I select Java 1.5 instead of 1.4 in MacOSX-Tiger? (lists.apple.com)
Thought Policeman (www.mactech.com)
Write Sweet-Smelling Comments (www.stickyminds.com)
Dolphin release of Java swimming into view (InfoWorld)
Interview with PMD's Tom Copeland (www.vanwardtechnologies.com)
Plan Would Broaden F.B.I.'s Terror Role (New York Times)
Who's Your Daddy? (New York Times)
Give Your DVD Player the Finger (Wired)
Product Choices and IT (www.gripe2ed.com)
Out-of-State Wine Sales Upheld (Wired)
US 'backed illegal Iraqi oil deals' (The Guardian)
I am not your neo-nazi spammer (linuxintegrators.com)
Rebuffing Bush, 132 Mayors Embrace Kyoto Rules (New York Times)
Who's Preying on Your Grandparents? - New York Times (New York Times)
Meet the Poor Republicans (New York Times)
'Hundreds shouted at me, roll over and die' (The Guardian)
Waking up to the morning after pill (The Guardian)
World's Easiest Explanation of Anamorphic 16:9 Widescreen Enhancement in DVDs (gregl.net)
Borland NOT Open Sourcing JBuilder! (osdir.com)
Steve Jobs Buys a Washing Machine (Wired)
Terror Suspects Sent to Egypt by the Dozens, Panel Reports (New York Times)
Army to Spend Day Retraining Recruiters (New York Times)
Computer Economics: research on strategic and financial management of information systems (www.computereconomics.com)
Bruce Schneier on Cryptography (www.securityfocus.com)
Help Classpath (lists.gnu.org)
Apache eyes open-source Java project (news.com)
No Real Debate for Real ID (Wired)
Two ‘Extremely Critical’ Bugs Found In Firefox (blog.taragana.com)
The Response to Why Don't you Ship Swing Apps (weblogs.java.net)
Issue in China: Labor Camps That Operate Outside the Courts (New York Times)
Case of Cuban Exile Could Test the U.S. Definition of Terrorist (New York Times)
Before the Flood (New York Times)
Sri Lankan Maids Pay Dearly for Perilous Jobs Overseas (New York Times)
Under New Medicare Prescription Drug Plan, Food Stamps May Be Reduced (New York Times)
U.S. to Spend Billions More to Alter Security Systems (New York Times)
Comma before "and" (www.getitwriteonline.com)
In a Reverse, Microsoft Says It Supports Gay Rights Bill (New York Times)
Sun Microsystems to double Indian R&D staff (news.com)
Sun: Loss is deeper than thought (news.com)
GCC 4.0 Review (www.coyotegulch.com)
Experts work to aid compiler behind open source (news.com)
Twenty-Five Years of Post-it Notes (rakemag.com)
Building and Running Java PathFinder with NetBeans (www.netbeans.org)
Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up! - John Taylor Gatto (www.johntaylorgatto.com)
Getting Flat, Part 2 (www.linuxjournal.com)
FAQ: How Real ID will affect you (news.com)
The Law of Standards (www.jfsowa.com)
Court says FCC's 'broadcast flag' is toast (news.com)
Why Google Scares Bill Gates (www.fortune.com)
Deployment: Understand the JRE Download Size (weblogs.java.net)
In Kansas, Darwinism Goes on Trial Once More (New York Times)
DHS chief floats idea of collecting private citizens' information (www.govexec.com)
Scanners: You're the Shopper and the Cashier (New York Times)
Routine License Check Can Mean Jail and Deportation (New York Times)
An Open Letter to Howard Dean | Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (www.thenation.com)
The Man Who Brewed Up Java (www.businessweek.com)
White House Is Pressured by Press Corps Over Sourcing (New York Times)
Making the wrong move against spyware (news.com)
Spying on the spyware makers (news.com)
Lawmaker Rips RFID Passport Plans (Wired)
Congress May Require Closer Scrutiny to Get a Driver's License (New York Times)
With Potbellies Back In, Buffet Pots Are Humming (New York Times)
Tracking the Imperiled Bluefin From Ocean to Sushi Platter (New York Times)
Found in Arkansas: Hope on Wings (New York Times)
Measure test coverage with Cobertura (www-128.ibm.com)
Beware of F.B.I. Agents Bearing Small Nail Files (New York Times)
Revelation! 666 is not the number of the beast (it's a devilish 616) (The Independent)
Teach-yourself computing for kids (BBC)
A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand. (www.acmqueue.org)
Ad Execs Want to Track Every Move (Wired)
Playing the loyalty card (The Guardian)
Unmentioned Energy Fix: A 55 M.P.H. Speed Limit (New York Times)
U.S. Recruits a Rough Ally to Be a Jailer (New York Times)
Contrarian Minds: Guy Steele (www.sun.com)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Douglas Adams (filmforce.ign.com)
Sun to go private? No way, says McNealy (news.com)
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (arstechnica.com)
A New Dawn For Sun Microsystems? (www.businessweek.com)
Graham Hamilton's Blog: J2SE 5.0 Update 3: the Third Tiger Cub (weblogs.java.net)
Firefox doubles market share as IE slips (The Register)
From Apple, a Tiger to Put in Your Mac (New York Times)
Swing vs. SWT? (www.ahmadsoft.org)
Bird Watcher's Digest: Ivory-billed Woodpecker by Julie Zickefoose (www.birdwatchersdigest.com)
Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Rediscovered in Arkansas (www.npr.org)
Longhorn security gets its teeth kicked out (www.vnunet.com)
Subject Need help polishing up the Windows Look and Feel. (winlaf.dev.java.net)
New Sun priorities could speed Niagara servers (news.com)
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is Rediscovered in Arkansas (www.birdingamerica.com)
A Trip in the Way-Back Machine (weblogs.java.net)
New NASA Software Detects 'Bugs' in Java Computer Code (www.nasa.gov)
Security for the Paranoid (www.securityfocus.com)
Nuclear fusion on the desktop ... really! (msnbc.msn.com)
Naming Classes - Do It Once And Do It Right (www.hacknot.info)
SWT Happens (www.hacknot.info)
Comments Are More Important Than Code - The thorough use of internal documentation is one of the most-overlooked ways of improving software quality and speeding implementation. (acmqueue.com)
Ozone layer most fragile on record (The Guardian)
Boxing Conversion in J2SE 5.0 (today.java.net)
The Truth about Linux and Windows (www.businessweek.com)
Environmental Heresies (www.technologyreview.com)
RMS: BitKeeper bon-voyage is a happy ending (software.newsforge.com)
Any Kerry Supporters On The Line? (www.time.com)
Five Favorite Features from 5.0 (www.onjava.com)
Threading lightly, Part 3: Sometimes it's best not to share (www-128.ibm.com)
Interviewing your employer (codebetter.com)
Florida Planning Son of Matrix (Wired)
Hello, Ogg (weblogs.java.net)
GCC 4.0.0 Released, Supports Free Software Java (www.weiqigao.com)
Anti-TV guerrillas wield their new zapper (The Guardian)
Blacks, Whites and Love (New York Times)
The New York Times > National > Charities Are Silent on Loss of Estate Tax (New York Times)
POLICE PAYOFF PROBE (www.nypost.com)
Pope 'obstructed' sex abuse inquiry (The Guardian)
Good Tests for Bad Parameters (blogs.msdn.com)
Nikon tries (and fails) to respond to RAW WB concerns (radar.oreilly.com)
C++ creator upbeat on its future (news.com)
Four Top Officers Cleared by Army in Prison Abuses (New York Times)
Derivative Works (www.linuxjournal.com)
Borland open sources JBuilder (The Register)
Why Do Web Server APIs Suck So Much? (www.mnot.net)
Lack of testing 'threatening stability of Linux' (news.zdnet.co.uk)
MSN search guru 'stole AltaVista code' (The Register)
How to Contribute Code to Mustang (java.sun.com)
Apple releases Java Update for Mac OS X v10.3.9 (www.macworld.com)
CSI: Wendy's Restaurants (New York Times)
A National Hero One Day, an Enemy to Some the Next (New York Times)
TAKE ACTION: Microsoft abandons gays (americablog.blogspot.com)
Developer Spotlight: Kent Beck (builderau.com.au)
Kernel Changes Draw Concern from Open-Source Community (www.eweek.com)
For Business Travelers, Fees and Taxes Everywhere (New York Times)
Psst...Justice Scalia...You Know, You're an Activist Judge, Too (New York Times)
Israel, on Its Own, Is Shaping the Borders of the West Bank (New York Times)
Java glitch hits OS X update (news.com)
Writing Memory Leak Regression Tests with INSANE (weblogs.java.net)
Ludovic Champenois's Blog: Java 10 years... (weblogs.java.net)
Swing Painting Improvements: No More Gray Rect! (weblogs.java.net)
Azul's first-generation Java servers go on sale (news.com)
U.S. Military's Elite Hacker Crew (Wired)
Time to Buy a New Shirt, Dave (Wired)
Building a Semantic Web Portal for Cancer Research (blogs.ittoolbox.com)
Some notes on the building of CodeZoo (37signals.com)
Beyond Balco: How One Pill Escaped the List of Controlled Steroids (New York Times)
contrib: OSX Native Installer (contrib.netbeans.org)
Devshed and iGrep are f*cking spammers (www.wormus.com)
Java Floating-Point Number Intricacies (www.concentric.net)
Getting Rid of EULAs While Keeping the GPL (www.gripe2ed.com)
Eclipse Performance (eclipse.org)
MIT students pull prank on conference (www.cnn.com)
House Passes Bankruptcy Bill; Overhaul Now Awaits President's Signature (New York Times)
A Time When Less Was Indeed More (New York Times)
Big-ticket software gets a trim (news.com)
Sun misses revenue, profit targets (news.com)
IBM car tech to nab speeders (news.com)
Comcast sued for disclosing customer info (news.com)
Sun gets second Microsoft patent payment (news.com)
Student tracker proposed (www.fcw.com)
java.net: Getting Started with Java and Bluetooth (today.java.net)
One Small Change for a Page, One Giant Leap for J2SE (weblogs.java.net)
Junk Fax Prevention Bill of 2005 will LEGALIZE junk faxes! (www.junkfax.org)
Tip: Javadoc as XML (www-128.ibm.com)
Concerns raised about 1997 U.S. mad cow tests (www.cbc.ca)
For Betrayal by Swiss Bank and Nazis, $21 Million (New York Times)
Guantánamo Detainee's Suit Says Prison Guards Beat Him (New York Times)
Z Zeropaid Interview: Michael Weiss, CEO of Morpheus (www.zeropaid.com)
Dabblers and Blowhards (www.idlewords.com)
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas (www.paulgraham.com)
Five reasons not to buy an HDTV with CableCard (news.com)
Technology's 10 most inexcusable failures (news.com)
Anti-Pattern: Design Around the Water Cooler (www.openxource.com)
Microsoft and Gateway to Settle Antitrust Suit (New York Times)
The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin (www.blogmaverick.com)
Kill Bill (clevescene.com)
Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention Unrest (New York Times)
Optimize a Swing App by Slowing It Down (weblogs.java.net)
Sidelining Homeland Security's privacy chief (news.com)
Rethinking the DMCA (news.com)
Torvalds looking for new Linux home (news.com)
IBM calls for patent reform (ZDNet)
Open Source Whoring (blogs.cocoondev.org)
The high price == stable company fallacy (blogs.atlassian.com)
She never hated men (The Guardian)
Medical Usability: How to Kill Patients Through Bad Design (www.useit.com)
Economic View: A Tax Increase That Bush Didn't Mention (New York Times)
Let Fathers Be Fathers (New York Times)
Stores Say Wild Salmon, but Tests Say Farm Bred (New York Times)
U.S. Seeks Access to Bank Records to Deter Terror (New York Times)
Piercing the peer–to–peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience (firstmonday.org)
JMF, wherefor art thou? (weblogs.java.net)
VideoLAN: The end draws near... (www.videolan.org)
The Scientist Is Gone, but Not His Book Tour (New York Times)
G.M. to Halt Ads in The Los Angeles Times (New York Times)
At the Center of an Academic Storm, a Lesson in Calm (New York Times)
GNU licenses and small startups (weblogs.java.net)
WS Authors: You Can't Hide from XML Schema (weblogs.java.net)
An embedded view of the Mac Mini, Part 1: Apple's new PowerPC BSP (www-128.ibm.com)
The Pope and Hypocrisy (New York Times)
A Side Order of Human Rights (New York Times)
Can a New Disposable Battery Change Your Life? Parts of It, Maybe (New York Times)
Why Eclipse Developers Are Moving To NetBeans (cld.blog (cld.blog-city.com)
Eclipse On MacOS X : Broken - Another SWT-Related Story (cld.blog (cld.blog-city.com)
Slick PR operation accompanies Pope's passing (The Guardian)
An Academic Question (New York Times)
Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions (New York Times)
Four Java IDEs duke it out (InfoWorld)
J2SE 5.0 Performance White Paper (java.sun.com)
Memoirs of Self Publishing (weblogs.java.net)
TestNG: The next generation of unit testing (JavaWorld)
'Strange marks of violence' (The Guardian)
JUnit Primer (www.clarkware.com)
The U.N. thinks about tomorrow's cyberspace (news.com)
Amazon gives up deepest secrets (The Guardian)
Test your tests with Jester (www-128.ibm.com)
A Desktop Java "Killer Application" (weblogs.java.net)
Help Wanted: China Finds Itself With a Labor Shortage (New York Times)
Parks in Peril (New York Times)
Hybrid-Car Tinkerers Scoff at No-Plug (New York Times)
Dolphins flourish in North Sea (The Guardian)
Big Easy riders (www.nola.com)
FAQ: Forty years of Moore's Law (news.com)
What Dell Support Thinks of Dell Support (www.gripe2ed.com)
Intel to stop using open (news.com)
Beware the product death cycle (news.com)
The Bitter Pill (Wired)
The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part IV (www.joelonsoftware.com)
Talking tech with Bill Joy (news.com)
Some Pay for a TV Service That They Didn't Choose (New York Times)
Strains on Nature Are Growing, Report Says (New York Times)
Passport Chip Criticism Grows (Wired)
Return of the Mac (paulgraham.com)
Misunderstandings (www.kimbly.com)
NetBeans vs. Eclipse (benjaminbooth.typepad.com)
Sun Plans To Make Java Enterprise System Open (www.crn.com)

Fish Farms Tied in Study to Imperiling Wild Salmon

Suit by Detainee on Transfer to Syria Finds Support in Jet's Log (New York Times)
Brazil: Free software's biggest and best friend (news.com)
Secure Flight Faces Uphill Battle (Wired)
JunitNewInstance (martinfowler.com)
ErraticTestFailure (martinfowler.com)
Java fallout: OpenOffice.org 2.0 and the FOSS community (software.newsforge.com)
Security no match for theater lovers (searchsecurity.techtarget.com)
The rabbi who pricks Israel's conscience (The Guardian)
A mobile page turner (www.cnn.com)
Movement in the Pews Tries to Jolt Ohio (New York Times)
Even as Doctors Say Enough, Families Fight to Prolong Life (New York Times)
BEADS OF SWEATSHOPS (www.vueweekly.com)
Pentagon Will Not Try 17 G.I.'s Implicated in Prisoners' Deaths (New York Times)
Google 20% Time (www.eightypercent.net)
TSA Work Sloppy, but Not Illegal (Wired)
Privacy Surrender Palmed Off As Support (www.gripe2ed.com)
Me and My Hybrid (New York Times)
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk (news.zdnet.co.uk)
A CAPPS by Any Other Name (Wired)
George W. to George W. (New York Times)
India Alters Law on Drug Patents (New York Times)
Programmers bypass Red Hat Linux fees (news.com)
Technology Retracted at MIT mag (business.bostonherald.com)
Good Java Style: Part 1 (www.developer.com)
Miguel de Icaza Explains How to "Get" Mono (www.ondotnet.com)
Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene (New York Times)
Texas Attorney General (www.oag.state.tx.us)
Counting Characters (weblogs.java.net)
Cartoonist faces Greek jail for blasphemy (The Guardian)
Developing with Maven (www.onjava.com)
Anybody Using This First Amendment? Greg Palast interviewed by Eric Bosse for AlterNet (www.gregpalast.com)
The Screwing of Cynthia McKinney (www.alternet.org)
Hugo Chavez is Crazy! (www.gregpalast.com)
Cheaper phone bills on the horizon? (news.com)
Be a Good Husband (weblogs.java.net)
Exploring the Mac OS X Firewall (www.macdevcenter.com)
The Credit Card Prank II (www.zug.com)
A GPL Win in Michigan - DrewTech v. SAE (www.groklaw.net)
Pupils make more progress in 3Rs 'without aid of computers' (www.telegraph.co.uk)
At NASA, Clouds Are What You Zoom Through to Get to Mars (New York Times)
Minority Rules (New York Times)
An Investigation of Therac-25 Accidents (www.computer.org)
Software is too expensive to build cheaply...: Unnecessary dependencies are at least midly naughty (twasink.net)
When Cute Deer Go Bad (New York Times)
Revenge of the Perturbed II: Readers Offer Tactics (New York Times)
Sun open-source diva departs for Intel (news.com)
Sun looks to sweeten Java (news.com)
Pulsating LED on a Powerbook: A case of UI Effects Gone Overboard (weblogs.java.net)
'One huge US jail' (The Guardian)
TestingGUIApplications (wiki.java.net)
Choosing a Java scripting language: Round two (JavaWorld)
AspectJ and AspectWerkz to Join Forces (dev.eclipse.org)
Army Details Scale of Abuse of Prisoners in an Afghan Jail (New York Times)
Ten Years of Java Technology (SYS-CON) (www.sys-con.com)
Guantánamo jail switch planned (The Guardian)
Deportation Case Focuses on Definition of Torture (New York Times)
Chess master Kasparov to retire (BBC)
Hackers Nab U.S. Citizens' Data (Wired)
ChoicePoint files found riddled with errors (www.msnbc.msn.com)
JBuilding Easy Java GUIs with Thinlet, Part 1 (javaboutique.internet.com)
Why I will not help some companies use Open Source (veillard.com)
hitormiss.org: TiVo to DVD (or VCD) via Mac OSX (www.hitormiss.org)
The enemy within (The Guardian)
Schools special reports | It's time to junk the junk food (The Guardian)
Microsoft MVPs Say They Want Old VB Back (www.eweek.com)
Linux creator Torvalds switches to an Apple Mac (ZDNet)
Take Action: Blogger Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison in Iran (action.humanrightsfirst.org)
BBC probes Net leak of 'Doctor Who' episode (news.com)
TheStar.com - Say no to Big Brother plan for Internet (www.thestar.com)
Software Testing 6: Good Tests for Bad Parameters (blogs.msdn.com)
Too Darned Big to Test - Testing large systems is a daunting task, but there are steps we can take to ease the pain. (www.acmqueue.com)
Why Your Broadband Sucks (Wired)
Are Confirmation Dialogs Harmful? (www.artima.com)
For Iraq's Great Marshes, a Hesitant Comeback (New York Times)
Better Profiling through Code Hotswapping: A Conversation with JFluid Project Lead, Misha Dmitriev (java.sun.com)
DVHS on a Budget (forum.ecoustics.com)
A French Quarter excavation yields some tantalizing history (www.nola.com)
In the ID Wars, the Fakes Gain (New York Times)
Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails (New York Times)
The Spam Assassin Behind SpamAssassin (osdir.com)
Test your tests with Jester (www-128.ibm.com)
How to track a PC anywhere it connects to the Net (ZDNet)
Codd's 12 Rules (www.itworld.com)
New OSI President Seeking Proactive License Simplicity (osdir.com)
Tipping Off the Tax Collector About Games Companies Used to Play (New York Times)
Censor Services Push Forward (Wired)
Build your TV! (www.sfbg.com)
Shipping Software (mark-lucovsky.blogspot.com)
The Best days of Voice-over-IP Telephone Service May Already Have Passed (PBS)
Gonzo Gone, Rather Going, Watergate Still Here (New York Times)
GameSpot Presents: GameSpotting - GameSpot (www.gamespot.com)
Judge dismisses spam conviction (www.cnn.com)
Jef Raskin, brains behind the user-friendly Macintosh / Early Apple developer wanted computers built for people, not just for programs (sfgate.com)
Groovy's A Lost Cause (www.pyrasun.com)
Proposed Law on Bankruptcy Has Loophole (New York Times)
The ups and downs of life with Linus (news.zdnet.co.uk)
Penrose: The Answer's Not 42 (Wired)
A Dangerous Loophole in Airport Security - If Slate could discover it, the terrorists will too (slate.msn.com)
Authentic Behavior in User Testing (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) (www.useit.com)
Known Hole Aided T-Mobile Breach (Wired)
A hard day's night (The Guardian)
Audit: U.S. lost track of $9 billion in Iraq funds (www.cnn.com)
Stallman calls for action on Free BIOS (www.fsf.org)
Buy Blue (www.buyblue.org)
Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore stays close to home while making a point about privacy (www.postgazette.com)
Avoiding Checked Exceptions (www.oreillynet.com)
Time out for bad behaviour (The Guardian)
The Academy Likes Itself! It Really Likes Itself! (New York Times)
Ruby on Rails Koolaid (jroller.com)
Smalltalk v. Java: Which is More Productive? (www.whysmalltalk.com)
Wine maker relaxed over Microsoft's 'blockade' (news.zdnet.co.uk)
Kansas on My Mind (New York Times)
Senator Says Data Service Has Lax Rules for Security (New York Times)
The reality of l'affaire du foulard (The Guardian)
Solar Tower of Power Finds Home (Wired)
No Encryption for E-Passports (Wired)
Diary for robilad (www.advogato.org)
ID Theft Victims Could Lose Twice (Wired)
Sun lays off software employees (news.com)
Lawsuit Says HP Printer Cartridges Die Before Use (story.news.yahoo.com)
Controlling code in your open source project (weblogs.java.net)
Code Coverage Analysis (www.bullseye.com)
Conn. residents fight for homes (story.news.yahoo.com)
Wag-the-Dog Protection (New York Times)
Without meat children are damaged, say scientists (The Guardian)
Installing Tomcat5.5 and integrating it with Apache 1.3 (technology.amis.nl)
This Thread is Dedicated to Making Up Silly Jim Steinman Song Titles (ilx.p3r.net)
Our Unnecessary Insecurity (New York Times)
Plan for Patenting Software Stalls in Europe's Parliament (New York Times)
In a British Mobile Phone Suit, the Color of Money Is Orange (New York Times)
Administration Is Warned About Its 'News' Videos (New York Times)
Intelligence Nominee Comes Under Renewed Scrutiny on Human Rights (New York Times)
Schwarzenegger vs. Gerrymander (New York Times)
When Child Support Is Due, Even the Poor Find Little Mercy (New York Times)
Xen lures big-name endorsements (news.com)
N.J. to hit Blockbuster with fraud lawsuit? (money.cnn.com)
Royal Mail loses its monopoly on letters after 350 years (The Guardian)
Papers reveal Bagram abuse (The Guardian)
Apple Mac Mini: Smaller, More Stylish - and Cheaper Than a PC? (www20.tomshardware.com)
Adding Classes to the JAR File's Classpath (java.sun.com)
Sun bumps back Opteron servers (news.com)
The White House Stages Its 'Daily Show' (New York Times)
No Defense (New York Times)
Open-source board eyes fewer licenses (news.zdnet.com)
Napster hack leads to free downloads (news.com)
Bill Gates and other communists (news.com)
SHA-1 Broken (www.schneier.com)
Libel law review over McDonald's ruling (The Guardian)
Vonage Complaining Of VoIP 'Blocking' (advancedippipeline.com)
Database giant gives access to fake firms (www.msnbc.msn.com)
Adam Bosworth's Weblog: ISCOC04 Talk (www.adambosworth.net)
Things to say when you are losing a tech argument (web.archive.org)
The Typing of the Dead Review (www.gamespot.com)
The Engadget Interview: Michael Malcolm, CEO and founder of Kaleidescape (www.engadget.com)
TiVo Deathwatch (www.engadget.com)
"Ring Species: Unusual Demonstrations of Speciation" (www.actionbioscience.org)
Linspire Five-0 First Look (www.osnews.com)
US denies patent for part-human hybrid (www.boston.com)
Torture, American Style (New York Times)
I've written my last Swing app... (SWT is *so* the business...) (blogs.bytecode.com.au)
R.I.P. Microsoft? (abcnews.go.com)
Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild (The Guardian)
Fraud and corruption (The Guardian)
Hands off our Wi-Fi network! (news.com)
House approves electronic ID cards (news.com)
Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor (interviews.slashdot.org)
U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Findings (www.latimes.com)
School RFID Plan Gets an F (Wired)
Annotations in Tiger, Part 1: Add metadata to Java code (IBM DeveloperWorks)
JAX-RPC 2.0 Early Draft 2 (weblogs.java.net)
Passionately Curious (weblogs.java.net)
Open-Source Practices for Biotechnology (New York Times)
Canadian Was Abused at Guantánamo, Lawyers Say (New York Times)
Court of First Resort (New York Times)
Vegas casino bets on RFID (news.com)
Tablet OS glitch has fans crying over spilled ink (news.com)
Judge slams SCO's lack of evidence against IBM (news.com)
It's time to integrate open source graphic applications (software.newsforge.com)
Strife inside Microsoft prevents source code release? (www.techworld.com)
SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: Of Dog Sniffs and Packet Sniffs (www.securityfocus.com)
Genetic barcodes will identify world's species (www.reuters.com)
Star Wants Out of Milky Way (Wired)
What about focusing on the right discussions? (weblogs.java.net)
James Gosling Q & A (www.builderau.com.au)
Taste for the Web (www.xach.com)
In the Valley of Life, oil is death to the art of a lost civilisation (The Guardian)
A Conversation with Alan Kay - Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk—and much more. (acmqueue.com)
The flip side of database snooping (news.com)
Sun's open-source gamble (news.com)
Up to 480 U.S. Nuclear Arms in Europe, Private Study Says (New York Times)
he Everymigrant's Guide to Crossing the Border Illegally (New York Times)
Customer Service: Admit You Have a Problem (www.ecommerce-guide.com)
The Big Picture May Seem Rosy, but the Deficit Is in the Details (New York Times)
Asylum Seekers Treated Poorly, U.S. Panel Says (New York Times)
Hate Messages on Google Site Draw Concern (New York Times)
How Wall Street Learns to Look the Other Way (New York Times)
Mr. President, Let's Share the Wealth (New York Times)
PlayStation 3 chip has split personality (news.com)
C4 lines up Guantánamo-style torture show (The Guardian)
KMake your builds always available (weblogs.java.net)
Tokyo court orders popular word processor off market (BBC)
U.S. Drops Criminal Inquiry of C.I.A. Antidrug Effort in Peru (New York Times)
Mac Mini: The Emperor's New Computer (www.divisiontwo.com)
Revealed: Britain's role in Guantanamo abduction (The Guardian)
Silicon Valley's China syndrome (news.com)
Java 5 - "final" is not final anymore (www.javaspecialists.co.za)
Spamhaus Accuses MCI of Hosting Spam Gangs (Internet News)
Corporate Desktop Linux - The Hard Truth (osdir.com)
Small is Beautiful (PBS)
The Problem with Scripting (weblogs.java.net)
EU Microsoft ruling shuns open source, critics say (www.macworld.com)
What's Bugging the High-Tech Car? (New York Times)
A Short History of Deanism (New York Times)
Blogger says Iraqi elections no 'magic pill' (news.com)
Few bugs in MySQL database (news.com)
Gates pours Elixir for Office developers (news.com)
Huge security hole in .NET: Java creator (ZDNet)
Bad Design (weblogs.java.net)
What the #$*! is Ramtha (www.wweek.com)
Farewell to one of the great ones (weblogs.asp.net)
Deceased woman named in file-sharing suit (wvgazette.com)
Biologists Planning to Study Pelicans (abcnews.go.com)
IDE lockdown - give my Java back (weblogs.java.net)
Sun floats open-source database idea (news.com)
Group aims to drastically up disc storage (news.com)
Creating Passionate Users: Users aren't dangerous (headrush.typepad.com)
Canadians Fight for Privacy (Wired)
Scientists warn growing acidity of oceans will kill reefs (The Guardian)
Olympics 2012: Athens offers bleak vision of future (The Guardian)
Gosling questions Sun-Microsoft pact (news.com)
Rewriting GPL No Easy Task (www.eweek.com)
Sun to revamp blade servers in 2006 (news.com)
Zombie trick expected to send spam sky-high (news.com)
Congress Balks at Hubble Repairs (Wired)
Backroom Tussling Over Biodiesel (Wired)
Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill (Wired)
Inside TiVo's new Java SDK (weblogs.java.net)
Study Ties Bankruptcy to Medical Bills (New York Times)
College Cancels Speech by Professor Who Disparaged 9/11 Attack Victims (New York Times)
Source Control: A Primer (odetocode.com)
A proposal: Coalition Against Open Sores (CAOS) projects (blog.taragana.com)
Gosling on JVM Scripting (cardboard.nu)
The Final Word On the final Keyword (renaud.waldura.com)
Law Barring Junk E-Mail Allows a Flood Instead (New York Times)
Evolution Takes a Back Seat in U.S. Classes (New York Times)
Judge Extends Legal Rights for Guantánamo Detainees (New York Times)
The open-source patent conundrum (news.com)
Lawyers ride shotgun for open source (news.com)
Sun makes bite-size Java server suites (news.com)
Carnivore redux (news.com)
Skype creeps under phone giants' radar (news.com)
Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing (www.moolenaar.net)
Apple bumps PowerBooks to 1.67GHz, lowers price (www.macworld.com)
Top Ten Technology Predictions (jroller.com)
Sun's no-op announcement (trends.newsforge.com)
TiVo seeks new ideas from developers (news.com)
Home PCs Predict Hotter Earth (Wired)
Nuclear Now! (Wired)
Area Codes Blur Boundaries (Wired)
Passenger Screening, Take 10 (Wired)
Why Apple Makes a One Buttoned Mouse (www.gearlive.com)
Global warming may kill off polar bears in 20 years, says WWF (The Guardian)
God is not the puppet master (The Guardian)
I'd rather see a headscarf ban than Muslim ghettoes (The Guardian)
Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs (www.asktog.com)
There Goes the Old Neighborhood, to Revitalization (New York Times)
C.I.A. Said to Rebuff Congress on Nazi Files (New York Times)
Creating Passionate Users: Giving a damn about customers... (headrush.typepad.com)
Politics-Oriented Software Development (www.kuro5hin.org)
an API to bite one in the arse (acroyear.blog-city.com)
Pictures of Miguel (nat.org)
Why I love the GPL (trends.newsforge.com)
Freevo: Freedom For Your TV (www.linuxdevcenter.com)
Third Journalist Was Paid to Promote Bush Policies (New York Times)
Graduate Cryptographers Unlock Code of 'Thiefproof' Car Key (New York Times)
Security Nominee Gave Advice to the C.I.A. on Torture Laws (New York Times)
Australian's Long Path in U.S. Antiterrorism Maze (New York Times)
Patent Questions About the CDDL (www.groklaw.net)
Sun's 1600 Patents, OpenSolaris, and CDDL (www.groklaw.net)
Will Sun's 1600 patents suck the life out of Linux? (blogs.zdnet.com)
JHymn Goes Behind Atoms and Apple To Bring DRM-Free Music (osdir.com)
Java 6.0 Mustang release dates posted (joust.kano.net)
City Of New Orleans Launches High Tech Assault On Crime (www.digitalvideoediting.com)
The Lock Busters (Wired)
Chris Adamson's Blog: Hasty conclusions (weblogs.java.net)
Mobile virus infects Lexus cars (www.infosecnews.com)
Britain 'sliding into police state' (The Guardian)
Mini-Macs: it's a small world, after all (The Register)
Apple website points to PowerBook G5 (The Register)
Violence: Across Baghdad, Security Is Only an Ideal (New York Times)
HOW-TO: Turn your Mac mini into a media center (engadget.com)
Are Tests First Class Clients? (www.artima.com)
If you smoke (even at home), you're fired (www.adapdev.com)
Questionable String.valueOf implementation (nerddawg.blogspot.com)
My Experiences With Subversion (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk)
Microsoft: Legit Windows or no updates (news.com)
Isolation, breakdowns and mysterious injections (The Guardian)
Palestinians Fear East Jerusalem Land Grab (New York Times)
Sun poised to take open-source Solaris step (news.com)
Driven from their land (The Guardian)
Some Louisiana Politicians Need Ticket To Reality (www.bayoubuzz.com)
How to Stop Spam (www.circleid.com)
What is the largest text file that Java can read into a String? (www.oreillynet.com)
How to Read a Column (New York Times)
Liquefied Natural Gas: How Safe? (Wired)
Stem Cell Lines Compromised? (Wired)
Mac Mini Review (www.macintouch.com)
Opensource Code versus Open Access to Data (www.openxource.com)
No-Votings for JDO2 on JCP (www.logemann.org)
Choosing an open source license (linuxintegrators.com)
Few but Organized, Iraq Veterans Turn War Critics (New York Times)
Commandos Get Duty on U.S. Soil as Antiterrorism Efforts Expand (New York Times)
Sharpening the Axe or Shaving the Yaks? (weblogs.java.net)
Shell Scripting on OS X with ECMA / JavaScript (www.markme.com)
Does Not Compute (New York Times)
THE PRESS AND THE PRESIDENT (www.washingtonmonthly.com)
Mini Me The New Mac Mini is All About Movies (PBS)
FAQ: CableCard? What's that? (news.com)
Wired News: Solving the Enigma of Kryptos (Wired)
How to do Conditional Compilation with Java (weblogs.java.net)
Leo Benedictus profiles the immigrant communities of London (The Guardian)
Sorry, Virginia, There is No tools.jar (blogs.fivesight.com)
The death knell: The JCP EC rejects JDO 2.0 (rmh.blogs.com)
The Free Lunch Bunch (New York Times)
Annals of Torture: Iraqi Refugee's Tale of Abuse Dissolves Upon Later Scrutiny (New York Times)
Open Mind Common Sense Information (commonsense.media.mit.edu)
'Evil twin' threat to Wi-Fi users (www.cnn.com)
"No Irish Need Apply": A Myth of Victimization (tigger.uic.edu)
The Coming DVD Format War (New York Times)
Federal Judge Deals Setback to Guantánamo Bay Detainees (New York Times)
Mini Options (www.macworld.com)
Exploring the deep structure of code (InfoWorld)
Getters/Setters/Fuxors (naeblis.cx)
State bill could cripple P2P (news.com)
Darwin flaws survive in Apple's Mac OS X (news.com)
Sun license gets open-source nod (news.com)
Worried about Wi-Fi security? (news.com)
Wireless broadband (www.economist.com)
Wired News: FBI Tosses Carnivore to the Dogs (Wired)
MacCentral: The Mac mini: Comparing Apples and Oranges (www.macworld.com)
Java XPath Engine Comparison (www.k2.dion.ne.jp)
java.util.UUID mini-FAQ (www.asciiarmor.com)
Does anybody actually like Circus Peanuts? (www.straightdope.com)
Durability of Usability Guidelines (www.useit.com)
Visions of Ancient Night Sky Were Hiding in Plain Sight for Centuries (New York Times)
Making Votes Count: One Last Election Lesson (New York Times)
India's Choice (New York Times)
Nine Servings of Fruit and Vegetables? (New York Times)
Linux fights off hackers (www.vnunet.com)
A Sneak Peek at GNOME 2.10 (www.gnome.org)
A Free JDK Really Is Coming (www.weiqigao.com)
Fun With Floating Point Arithmetic, Part Three (weblogs.asp.net)
High-Ranking Officers May Face Prosecution in Iraqi Prisoner Abuse, Military Officials Say (New York Times)
A New Kind of Evil (Wired)
Apache Tomcat - The Shine is Gone (carlsbadcubes.com)
Open-Source Context (www.sdtimes.com)
Mike Spille wants to take over Groovy? (www.blueskyonmars.com)
Creating Passionate Users: Users shouldn't think about YOU (headrush.typepad.com)
Creating Passionate Users: Rubberducking and Creativity (headrush.typepad.com)
Developer spotlight: James Gosling: Builder AU: Web Development (www.builderau.com.au)
High street shoppers face hi-tech wireless marketing (The Guardian)
Together in electric dreams (The Guardian)
Rebellion of the States: Red, Blue and Angry All Over (New York Times)
The New York Times > Technology > Sun Posts Small Profit but Disappoints Investors With a Decline in Revenue (New York Times)
U.S.-Led Troops Have Damaged Babylon, British Museum Says (New York Times)
Working with Automator (developer.apple.com)
China Promotes Another Boom: Nuclear Power (New York Times)
Free Microsoft Program To Battle Spyware Has Some Serious Flaws (ptech.wsj.com)
Best of Show: Macworld Expo San Francisco (www.macworld.com)
Zap bugs with PMD (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Planners Ferret Out Urban Risks (Wired)
FBI's failed $170M project (www.toolshed.com)
US soldier guilty of Iraq jail abuse (The Guardian)
The Numbers Guy (online.wsj.com)
Chess Players Give 'Check' a New Meaning (New York Times)
Red Hat tries again with Linux enthusiasts (news.com)
Iceland buses come clean with hydrogen (news.com)
At the heart of the open-source revolution (news.com)
Soldiers Testify on Orders to Soften Prisoners in Iraq (New York Times)
ITLS! (www.artima.com)
White House Fought New Curbs on Interrogations, Officials Say (New York Times)
Apple's latest efforts are the triumph of software over hardware. (weblogs.java.net)
How Groovy Lost its Groove Thang (www.pyrasun.com)
Investors Supporting Spyware (www.benedelman.org)
The Mac mini preview (arstechnica.com)
MacWorld 2005: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (www.mikeindustries.com)
Bones of contention (The Guardian)
Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems (www.securityfocus.com)
Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit (www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com)
Open Source Agent Systems Written In Java (manageability.org)
The AskTog Bug House: Three New Persistent Design Bugs (www.asktog.com)
Keyboard vs. The Mouse, pt 1 (asktog.com)
I.B.M. to Give Free Access to 500 Patents (New York Times)
Central Figure in Iraq Abuse Goes on Trial (New York Times)
Security researcher to be jailed for finding bugs in software? (ZDNet)
Your Call (and Rants on Hold) Will Be Monitored (New York Times)
Earlier Disasters: For Honduras and Iran, World's Aid Evaporated (New York Times)
On the Thought: Thinking in Ruby ... not (onthethought.blogspot.com)
The war on copyright communists (The Guardian)
City of ghosts (The Guardian)
To Try to Net Killer, Police Ask a Small Town's Men for DNA (New York Times)
German's Claim of Kidnapping Brings Investigation of U.S. Link (New York Times)
EFF's Review of Elgato's EyeTV 500 (www.eff.org)
The white stuff (The Guardian)
TV Host Says U.S. Paid Him to Back Policy (New York Times)
Captured Insurgents: U.S. Said to Hold More Foreigners in Iraq Fighting (New York Times)
Kenosis and the World Free Web (freshmeat.net)
Your software rights or the best tools: often a sad choice (trends.newsforge.com)
FreeBSD's Secretary/Treasurer: Java License Troubles Being Worked Out (osdir.com)
Why Your Code Sucks (www.artima.com)
Developer Testing Is 'In' (SYS-CON) (www.sys-con.com)
Newly Released Reports Show Early Concern on Prison Abuse (New York Times)
With Cameras on the Corner, Your Ticket Is in the Mail (New York Times)
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Don't Torture Yourself (That's His Job) (New York Times)
We Are All Torturers Now (New York Times)
Windows XP Service Pack 2: The Inside Story (www.winsupersite.com)
Senators should object to Ohio vote (www.suntimes.com)
Human-Computer Interface Design (www.usask.ca)
Bells dig in to dominate high-speed Internet realm (www.usatoday.com)
How NOT to Have Your Talk Accepted for the JavaOne Conference (blogs.sun.com)
Diet and Lose Weight? Scientists Say 'Prove It!' (New York Times)
After Retreat, G.O.P. Changes House Ethics Rule (New York Times)
Interview: Debian Project Leader Martin Michlmayr (www.newsforge.com)
HP Plays Grinch (www.gripe2ed.com)
Steaming About DRM (www.gripe2ed.com)
Finding the Right Balance Between Power and Weight (New York Times)
HOWTO: Make that palmOne Treo 650 Even Better! (www.palminfocenter.com)
Empires prefer a baby and the cross to the adult Jesus (The Guardian)
Hertford, home of the Holy Grail (The Guardian)
Java theory and practice: Dynamic compilation and performance measurement (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Flying Gets a Lift (www.time.com)
French toast (www.stratsplace.com)
Licensing Law Poses Hurdles for Gun Buyers (New York Times)
US plans permanent Guantanamo jails (The Guardian)
$2bn pledged, but will the world keep its promises? (The Guardian)
Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM (www.boingboing.net)
New Year, New Scraps for Sun's Feisty Chief (New York Times)
G.I. Families United in Grief, but Split by the War (New York Times)
Guantanamo Briton 'in handcuff torture' (The Guardian)
Villagers say foreigners get priority (The Guardian)
Justice Dept. Toughens Rule on Torture (New York Times)
Fresh Details Emerge on Harsh Methods at Guantánamo (New York Times)
alt.lang.jre: Twice as Nice (IBM DeveloperWorks)
p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media news site (p2pnet.net)
Exception When Writing To A Full Disk? Not In Java! (weblog.janek.org)

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