2007 Readings

• Long Live Closed-Source Software! (DISCOVER Magazine)
• Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use (Washington Post)
• Agile Software Development at Scale (Scott Ambler)
• Leaner and Meaner Still (I, Cringely . The Pulpit)
• Connecticut governor plans opt-out system for personal info (Ars Technica)
• 3 down, 1 to go: Warner Music Group drops DRM (Ars Technica)
• The 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Crises (MSF-USA: Special Report)
• Is your staff empowered? (James Robertson)
• Opinion - Life after peak oil ( sacbee.com)
• Good news, bad news (blog.pmarca.com)
• The Once and Future King (I, Cringely . The Pulpit)
• E-mail users fight back (Megginson Technologies: Quoderat)
• Talk at Yale: Part 1 of 3 (Joel on Software)
• Code's Worst Enemy (Stevey's Blog Rants)
• Making a clean break from old gadgets with Second Rotation (Ars Technica)
• SPEC, Google pressure drive, network gear makers on power (Ars Technica)
• How to Cut Ph.D. Time to Degree (Inside Higher Ed)
• No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions (New York Times)
• Inside a GOP effort to rig the 2002 New Hampshire elections (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
• New legislation for telemarketers: Do Not Call. Ever. (Ars Technica)
• Upcoming standard to separate cameraphone wheat from chaff (Ars Technica)
• Christmas in South Carolina (Power From Truth)
• Gays Living in Shadows of New Iraq (New York Times)
• Corporate Enemy No. 1: State Attorneys General (Mother Jones)
• Are Proprietary Databases Doomed? (Allan Packer's Weblog)
• BGGA closures: The end of many Java careers (All things bright and distributed)
• 1,000 pages of bad news: Ohio e-voting report released (Ars Technica)
• Hands on with the new online version of OpenOffice.org (Ars Technica)
• Survey says ... Linux desktop is ever more popular (Desktop Linux)
• Lecture 9: Quantum (PHYS771)
• Crimson in Clover (Wall Street Journal)
• House Passes Ban On Waterboarding, Approves Intelligence Bill Outlawing Harsh CIA Interrogation Techniques - CBS News (CBS News)
• A first look at KDE 4.0 release candidate 2 (Ars Technica)
• Review: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon takes on Mac OS X Leopard for the OS of the Year (Linux Magazine)
• DNS poisoning used to redirect unwitting surfers (Ars Technica)
• Mike Huckabee: Women Should Submit To Their Husbands (Crooks and Liars)
• Bleak future for Antarctic penguins, report warns (Environment | Guardian Unlimited)
• Bob Cesca: The Lies Of John McCain And Mike Huckabee (Politics on The Huffington Post)
• U.S. Is No Haven, Canadian Judge Finds (New York Times)
• Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR (ABC News)
• Two perspectives on immigration, illegal and otherwise (blog.pmarca.com)
• Open source software package takes aim at high-cost math programs (NetworkWorld.com Community)
• Outcast Kasparov still squaring up to Putin ( Russia | Guardian Unlimited)
• Noncompete Agreements Are The DRM Of Human Capital (Techdirt)
• Even More "War on the Unexpected" (Schneier on Security)
• Judge refuses to entertain Lime Wire conspiracy theories against RIAA (Ars Technica)
• California's testing cracks ES&S evoting system wide open (Ars Technica)
• Sarbanes-Oxley rules of '02 reshape Silicon Valley boards of directors (SiliconValley.com)
• Microsoft wireless keyboards crypto cracked (The Register)
• Out of the box: Valley companies dump cubicles for open office spaces (San Jose Mercury News)
• Congress' "anti-extremist" bill targets online thoughtcrime ( The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com)
• The Open Road: Building the JDK (java.net)
• Google Calling: Inside Android, the gPhone SDK (ONLamp.com)
• The permanent Republican majority:<br>Part one: How a coterie of Republican heavyweights sent a governor to jail (The Raw Story)
• BSA, software giants target little guys (NetworkWorld.com Community)
• Garry Kasparov jailed over rally (BBC NEWS | Europe)
• Military Asks Wounded Soldiers To Return Portions Of Signing Bonuses (kdka.com)
• Accident Victims Face Grab for Legal Winnings (WSJ.com)
• Five problems with Google Android (Unqualified Reservations)
• Android (ongoing)
• In zombies we trust | Ryan Naraine’s Zero Day (ZDNet.com)
• California sues e-voting vendor over hardware changes (Computerworld)
• QOTD: Google's license for the Android SDK (robilad)
• OpenJDK++ (robilad)
• Sooo, what about Google Android and phoneME? (Terrence Barr's Blog)
• On Torture Hypotheticals--Conservative Perspective (Obsidian Wings)
• Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (Wired)
• Google and Sun may butt heads over Android (wireless.itworld.com)
• Sun eyes consumer focus for upcoming Java kit ( InfoWorld | News | 2007-11-07 | By Paul Krill)
• What Is the State of U.S. Disaster-Preparedness? A Freakonomics Quorum (Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog)
• Sun CEO keeps making friends with enemies (MarketWatch)
• Ron Paul distortions and smears (Glenn Greenwald - Political Blogs and Opinions - Salon)
• Suicide Epidemic Among Veterans, A CBS News Investigation Uncovers A Suicide Rate For Veterans Twice That Of Other Americans (CBS News)
• FBI Hoped to Follow Falafel Trail to Iranian Terrorists Here (CQ Politics)
• Waterboarding Is Torture, Says Ex-Navy Instructor (washingtonpost.com)
• Google enlists help for Google Phone ( USATODAY.com)
• Java theory and practice: Introduction to nonblocking algorithms (developerWorks)
• AT&T engineer: NSA built secret rooms in our facilities (Ars Technica)
• We're only Human after all: a review of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon (Ars Technica)
• What is the Google Collections Library? (JavaLobby)
• So Long Apple. The Party's Over (JavaLobby)
• ZFS Puts Net App Viability at Risk? (Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog)
• Sun Reports Modest Profit, but Revenue Disappoints Investors (New York Times)
• Prostates and Prejudices (New York Times)
• Secure This (Worse Than Failure)
• Programming the World in a Browser Real Men Don't Do JavaScript Do They? ! (JOT: Journal of Object Technology)
• The War on the Unexpected (Schneier on Security)
• Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being Passé ( New York Times)
• War on Iraq: Low Morale Has U.S. Troops in Iraq Pretending to Patrol (AlterNet)
• Flight Mitosis: Delta splits your nonstops into two (Upgrade: Travel Better)
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review: Page 6 (Ars Technica)
• Introduction to JSR-275: Measures and Units (Java World)
• Multicore processing for client-side Java applications (Java World)
• Bloated terrorist list may contribute to security problems (Ars Technica)
• Hottest act in town, and on BitTorrent: Mac OS X Leopard (Ars Technica)
• The next best thing to OS X (Ahead of the Curve | Tom Yager | InfoWorld)
• Solaris and OS X (James Gosling: on the Java Road)
• As Leopard Day nears, third-party devs request patience (Ars Technica)
• Indies Roll the Dice on Final Leopard (stevenf.com)
• Has the Drug War Created an Officer Liars' Club? (Joseph D. McNamara)
• Testilying (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
• Forest fans howl over plans to raze 20 acres in Ridgewood Reservoir (New York Daily News)
• Becoming a Better Programmer: A Conversation With Java Champion Heinz Kabutz (SDN)
• Oh, and We Also Saved the World (I, Cringely . The Pulpit .)
• Rails 2.0: Preview Release (Riding Rails)
• Ruby on Rails 2.0 Preview Released (Ruby Community News Forum)
• Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus (New York Times)
• Diseconomies of Scale and Lines of Code (Coding Horror)
• Where's the Bottleneck? (Bruce Eckel)
• Avoiding Development Disasters (Worse Than Failure)
• Distribution of Nets Splits Malaria Fighters (New York Times)
• Chimps choose more rationally than humans (UPI.com)
• David Brooks and the deceitful tactics of the Beltway pundit (Glenn Greenwald - Political Blogs and Opinions - Salon)
• The Law of the Leaked Memo ([JavaSpecialists 151])
• The latest revelations of lawbreaking, torture and extremism (Glenn Greenwald - Political Blogs and Opinions - Salon)
• Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience (New York Times)
• Pogue’s Picks (New York Times)
• OpenJDK Mercurial Transition Update 4 (Kelly O'Hair's Blog)
• Amazon's Dynamo (All Things Distributed)
• Four Myths Government and Media Use to Scare Us About 'Dictators' (AlterNet:)
• The Code C.R.A.P. Metric Hits the Fan - Introducing the crap4j Plug-in (Artima)
• Vista Rants (Chris Pirillo)
• The Bug That Shut Down Computers World-Wide (Worse Than Failure)
• Programming message services in Java ( Reg Developer)
• BEA balances VMware with Xen (Reg Developer)
• Report Says Firm Sought to Cover Up Iraq Shootings ( New York Times)
• Report Details Shooting by Drunken Blackwater Worker (New York Times)
• Gary Kasparov: Gazprom can have its own army (Transatlantic Politics)
• "Nazis" and "Hitler" -- the Right's casual, trivializing political insults (Salon)
• Consumer group blasts binding arbitration clauses (Ars Technica)
• What's So Precious About Bad Software? (Carla Schroder)
• Why I don't use Swing hacks (in production code) (Alexander Potochkin's Blog)
• Why Rich Internet Apps Will Fail (Simon Morris's Blog)
• Dan Rather vs. CBS, and the truth about George W. Bush (Salon.com)
• Soldier tells of shooting unarmed Iraqi ( Yahoo! News)
• The Open Road: Looking Ahead to Java 7 (java.net)
• Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself (Tech news blog - CNET News.com)
• Read it and weep: Europeans can now travel by train between London and Paris in just about two hours flat (Travel Talk)
• The New College Try (New York Times)
• For Gaza’s Young at Play, Fields Can Be Deadly (New York Times)
• Secure Flight Investigation (UnSecureFlight.com)
• Study: Acupuncture Works for Back Pain (The Associated Press)
• Watch and record live television (Macworld: Feature)
• Desktop deliverance: an overview of GNOME 2.20 (Ars Technica)
• Diluting the scientific method: Ars looks at homeopathy (Ars Technica)
• Linux's Free System Is Now Easier to Use, But Not For Everyone (Personal Technology - WSJ.com)
• WF II: Erlang Blues (ongoing)
• The busy Java developer's guide to db4o: Introduction and overview (Ted Neward)
• OSI Calls for Major Revisions to Microsoft Permissive License (eWeek)
• Tens of thousands of CCTV cameras, yet 80% of crime unsolved (This is London)
• First U.S. GPL lawsuit filed (Linux Watch)
• Microsoft updates Windows without users' consent (WindowsSecrets.com)
• Windows Updates and Software Ownership (Ed Foster's Gripelog)
• Dogs on the Trail, Even on a Leash, Give Birds a Fright (New York Times)
• TD AMERITRADE Releases Results of Client SPAM Investigation (TD AMERITRADE - Press Releases)
• Big Brother is watching us all (BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent)
• Greenspan: Ouster Of Hussein Crucial For Oil Security (washingtonpost.com)
• Update: SCO files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (Computerworld)
• John Resig on JavaScript API Design (Java Community News)
• An open letter to Guido van Rossum: Mr Rossum, tear down that GIL! (SnapLogic Blog)
• How the EU saves, and kills, the lynx (BBC NEWS | Europe)
• Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction (Salon.com)
• Jonesin' for a Soda (Mises Institute)
• NetApp hits Sun with patent-infringement lawsuit (ComputerWorld)
• Big Gifts, Tax Breaks and a Debate on Charity (New York Times)
• Sun response to NetApp lawsuit (On The Record)
• Sun delays results, cites new accounting software (CNET News.com)
• Why windows takes so long to start up. (IntelliAdmin.com)
• Silverlight goes 1.0, adds Linux support (CNET News.com)
• Admin Hack ( HackMac.org)
• Dirty Secret: Green Cars Automakers Won't Sell You (MSN Autos)
• OpenSolaris will challenge Linux says Sun (Computerworld UK)
• Welcome, Stranger. Here’s a Speeding Ticket. (New York Times)
• Ubuntu 7.04 -- it's not all bad | APC Magazine(apcmag.com)
• Forcing Larry Craig's resignation while embracing David Vitter (Glenn Greenwald - Political Blogs and Opinions - Salon)
• Flight of the honeybees (Fortune)
• Sorry Charlie: Bluefin Tuna Ready to Become Dodos of the Sea (grrlscientist)
• How our seedy, corrupt Washington establishment operates (Salon)
• Jim Hoagland - Bush's Vietnam Blunder (Washington Post)
• Security Theater: TSA Confiscates Pudding, Misses Knife - (consumerist.com)
• Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog: The Rise of JAVA - The Retirement of SUNW (blogs.sun.com)
• Backlog leaves disabled in limbo (www.democratandchronicle.com)
• Windows Is Free (A TLUG Article) (tlug.jp)
• Capitol Records Ordered to Pay Attorney Fees (www.slyck.com)
• AlterNet: Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren't Listening (www.alternet.org)
• The Bright Side of Spite Revealed (www.livescience.com)
• 3.5% raise too much for Bush (the.honoluluadvertiser.com)
• A New French Revolution’s Creed: Let Them Ride Bikes (New York Times)
• FBI lied to get ISPs to turn over data (www.theinquirer.net)
• Marine says officers ordered to 'crank up' violence in Iraq - USATODAY.com (www.usatoday.com)
• raganwald: Which theory fits the evidence? (weblog.raganwald.com)
• Ruby's easy but Java is quicker (www.gcn.com)
• The Observer (The Guardian)
• Fatigue cripples US army in Iraq (The Guardian)
• Helping enemies in Iraq (news.cincypost.com)
• SOA - No silver bullet (blog.cravenfamily.com)
• Designing Collaborative Spaces for Productivity (www.infoq.com)
• Unpaid Teens Bag Groceries for Wal-Mart (www.msnbc.msn.com)
• ADD / XOR / ROL (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
• Nerds (New York Times)
• The Under (New York Times)
• In the ’60s, a Future Candidate Poured Her Heart Out in Letters (New York Times)
• The Observer (The Guardian)
• Threat Level - Wired Blogs (blog.wired.com)
• Sanity check: How Microsoft beat Linux in China and what it means for freedom, justice, and the price of software (blogs.techrepublic.com.com)
• Yet Another Operator Overloading Abuse (worsethanfailure.com)
• Is your bottled water coming from a faucet? (www.msnbc.msn.com)
• Monsanto Patents Asserted Against American Farmers Rejected By Patent Office (www.pubpat.org)
• FBI's Secret Spyware Tracks Down Teen Who Made Bomb Threats (Wired)
• Will security firms detect police spyware? (news.com)
• Sun says Java flaw has been patched (news.com)
• API: Design Matters: Should the authors of lousy APIs be held accountable for their crimes? Why changing APIs might become a criminal offense (acmqueue.com)
• In Economics Departments, a Growing Will to Debate Fundamental Assumptions (New York Times)
• A Behind-The-Scenes Look At How DRM Becomes Law (www.informationweek.com)
• Let the Chips Fall (PBS)
• The Fishbowl: posting top like don't still I (fishbowl.pastiche.org)
• FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act Abuse (Wired)
• Road to New Life After Katrina Is Closed to Many (New York Times)
• Surgeon General Sees 4 (New York Times)
• Lance Mannion: Why we can't all just get along (lancemannion.typepad.com)
• This Land is My Land by Barbara Ehrenreich... (davidmquintana.blogspot.com)
• 'Supporting the troops' means withdrawing them (www.niemanwatchdog.org)
• Australia 'has Iraq oil interest' (BBC)
• BobGeiger.com: GOP Senators Who Voted For Clinton Impeachment Dead Silent On Libby (bobgeiger.blogspot.com)
• Cay Horstmann's Blog: JSF Support in Eclipse Europa and NetBeans 6.0m10 (weblogs.java.net)
• The “Project Zero FAQ” FAQ (diveintomark.org)
• Commuting Prison Term Is Implicit Critique of Sentencing Standards (New York Times)
• Forget about the WGA! 20+ Windows Vista Features and Services Harvest User Data for Microsoft - From your machine! - Softpedia (news.softpedia.com)
• NetBeans still doesn't get it (www.pushing-pixels.org)
• The long and winding road where? (chefcdb.livejournal.com)
• The Art and Craft of Great Software Architecture and Development: How to spot the dreaded non-coding architect (softarc.blogspot.com)
• Was campaigning against voter fraud a Republican ploy? (www.mcclatchydc.com)
• FSF - iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them (www.fsf.org)
• Strong Laws, Smart Tech Can Stop Abusive 'Data Reuse' (Wired)
• Billionaire Thinks in Trillions for His Computer Designs (New York Times)
• Hell on air (scobleizer.com)
• Files on Illegal Spying Show C.I.A. Skeletons From Cold War (New York Times)
• Outsourcing: How to Skirt the Law (www.businessweek.com)
• Everyone we fight in Iraq is now "al-Qaida" (Salon)
• 'A Different Understanding With the President' | Cheney (Washington Post)
• Lowering Flag for War’s Dead Brings a New Rift (New York Times)
• EMI says DRM-free music is selling well (arstechnica.com)
• Lawrence Lessig Required Reading: the next 10 years (www.lessig.org)
• Army Mom Goes AWOL To Fight For Custody Of Child (cbs4denver.com)
• DHS trying to deport missing soldier's wife (rawstory.com)
• Groklaw - Laura and Me - Updated (www.groklaw.net)
• How Serious Is Polling's Cell-Only Problem? (pewresearch.org)
• Some Texans Fear Border Fence Will Sever Routine of Daily Life (New York Times)
• An Earth Without People (scientificamerican.com)
• EVGA Rejects Warranty for Confidential Reasons (www.gripe2ed.com)
• Dan Froomkin - New Questions About Abu Ghraib (Washington Post)
• OSGi for application modularity - one company's design choice (www.infoq.com)
• 22 Confessions Of A Former Dell Sales Manager - Consumerist (consumerist.com)
• Nightmare at Reagan National Airport: A Security Story to End all Security Stories (www.nowpublic.com)
• Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot (Wired)
• WHO: Environment woes killing millions (www.boston.com)
• Meadow Birds in Precipitous Decline, Audubon Says (New York Times)
• Glenn Greenwald - Salon (Salon)
• The threat to al-Jazeera (The Guardian)
• LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 (lkml.org)
• In defense of greedy brides. - By Daniel Gross (www.slate.com)
• Group says U.S. citizen wrongly deported to Mexico (www.reuters.com)
• Is Vanilla Fudge a clue? - By Jeffrey Goldberg, Stephen Metcalf, Timothy Noah, Brian Williams, and Terence Winter - Slate Magazine (www.slate.com)
• How much is an immigrant's life worth, exactly? - By Steven E. Landsburg - Slate Magazine (slate.com)
• 2 shark species won't get protections (www.msnbc.msn.com)
• Performance gains at the cost of other components (blogs.msdn.com)
• The trouble with engagement ringse (slate.com)
• Court Says Military Cannot Hold 'Enemy Combatant' (New York Times)
• Apple Says No Sun File System For Leopard (www.informationweek.com)
• The Guidebook for Taking a Life (New York Times)
• Is carbon offsetting the solution? (Or part of the problem?) (The Guardian)
• Java 7 Roundup (June 7th) (tech.puredanger.com)
• Chinese Leave Guantánamo for Albanian Limbo (New York Times)
• Developers see possibilities in iPhone apps (www.macworld.com)
• How-To: SSH tunnels for secure network access (www.engadget.com)
• O'Reilly Network -- Using SSH Tunneling (www.oreillynet.com)
• The Tortured Lives of Interrogators (Washington Post)
• Ian Murdock: Debian "missing a big opportunity" (www.linuxformat.co.uk)
• 86 Mac Plus Vs. 07 AMD DualCore. You Won't Believe Who Wins (hubpages.com)
• Why Upgrade to GPL Version 3 — GPLv3 (gplv3.fsf.org)
• Schools’ Deep-Pocketed Partners (New York Times)
• A Legal Debate in Guantánamo on Boy Fighters (New York Times)
• Linus Torvalds on GIT and SCM (codicesoftware.blogspot.com)
• 3 awesome free Math programs (math-blog.com)
• Lord of the Rings Online Review (games.slashdot.org)
• "Verschärfte Vernehmung" (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
• Ancient Plant May Become New Source of Biofuel (TreeHugger) (www.treehugger.com)
• Rove Linked to Prosecution of Ex-Alabama Governor (www.time.com)
• Why Apple TV is a dud (money.cnn.com)
• The Myth Of Salads: Why Why Fast Food Salads Aren't Necessarily Going To Help You Lose Weight (consumerist.com)
• VPN on Mac OS X (www.oreillynet.com)
• Amazon.com: FABERGE EGG: Jewelry & Watches (www.amazon.com)
• The Dirty Water Underground (New York Times)
• Design That Solves Problems for the World’s Poor (New York Times)
• Lieberman talks to troops in Baghdad (www.realcities.com)
• Take Note: Computing Takes Up Pen, Again (New York Times)
• Overbooking, Bumped Fliers and No Plan B (New York Times)
• JavaFX: New WYSIWYG Editor + Ramani Updates on License - O'Reilly ONJava Blog (www.oreillynet.com)
• ABC News Uncovers ‘Operation Northwoods’ (www.truthera.com)
• Advisers Fault Harsh Methods in Interrogation (New York Times)
• Less Than 0.01% Of Homeland Security Cases Are Terrorism Related (infowars.net)
• Intel: Software needs to heed Moore's Law (news.com)
• "Good Riddance Attention Whore" (www.dailykos.com)
• Alternative fuel for thought (news.com)
• Java on the Client, Part 1 (www.joshlong.com)
• Pro Libertate: Dog and Man in Washington (freedominourtime.blogspot.com)
• IraqSlogger: That Disputed Food Supply Memo: It's Legit (www.iraqslogger.com)
• Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 (www.projectcensored.org)
• 'Wiped off the Map' – The Rumor of the Century - by Arash Norouzi (www.antiwar.com)
• Rebooting Java Media, Part III: Conclusion - O'Reilly ONJava Blog (www.oreillynet.com)
• Java SE Media (Or Not) at JavaOne - O'Reilly ONJava Blog (www.oreillynet.com)
• Rebooting Java Media, Act I: Setup (www.oreillynet.com)
• Rebooting Java Media, Act II: Development (www.oreillynet.com)
• Ethan Nicholas's Blog: Java Kernel Unmasked (weblogs.java.net)
• Chet Haase's Blog: Media Frenzy (weblogs.java.net)
• Plans for OpenJDK (fitzsim.org)
• 'Noah's Ark' of 5,000 rare animals found floating off the coast of China (The Guardian)
• Microsoft Cancels Fall PDC (www.eweek.com)
• Who’s Afraid of Democracy? (www.inthesetimes.com)
• Immigration Raid Leaves Sense of Dread in Hispanic Students (New York Times)
• JavaFX: Sun isn't sure about the license - O'Reilly ONJava Blog (www.oreillynet.com)
• The Future of America Has Been Stolen - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine) (www.10zenmonkeys.com)
• The Last Guy in the World to See Star Wars (Wired)
• Advanced OS X: Surf a Secure Tunnel via SSH | MacApper (macapper.com)
• Q & A with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (www.news.com.au)
• Work bill would create new ID database (news.com)
• » Five crucial things the Linux community doesn’t understand about the average computer user (blogs.zdnet.com)
• Techworld.com - Ubuntu founder: Microsoft is our patent pal (www.techworld.com)
• Health fear over new airport scanners (www.thisislondon.co.uk)
• Sun Honeymoon Update: Servers (blogs.smugmug.com)
• The education of Jonathan Schwartz (news.com)
• Chagos islanders win right to return (The Guardian)
• Hack My Son's Computer, Please (Wired)
• Arguing For Infinite Copyright... Using Copied Ideas And A Near Total Misunderstanding Of Property (www.techdirt.com)
• More New I/O APIs for Java (Artima)
• Work bill would create new ID database (news.com)
• When banks turn evil - MSN Money (articles.moneycentral.msn.com)
• Java “Consumer JRE” looks Awesome ... (www.javalobby.org)
• Paul Buchheit: Amazingly bad APIs (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
• Chet Haase's Blog: Consumer JRE: Leaner, Meaner Java (weblogs.java.net)
• Macho Mistakes at Ground Zero (New York Times)
• The Belgravia Dispatch: The American Way: Induced Hypothermia, Sleep Deprivation and Water-Boarding? (www.belgraviadispatch.com)
• White House opposes military pay raise (rawstory.com)
• Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency (www.roguegovernment.com)
• Rudy, America's Victim (www.huffingtonpost.com)
• In The Wake Of Open-Source Java, What Dies? (www.crn.com)
• Editor's Daily Blog: JavaOne 2007 Day Four (weblogs.java.net)
• Wolf Paulus' Web Journal (wolfpaulus.com)
• AGILE IN ACTION: Fixed-price contracts don't work (www.think-box.co.uk)
• AGILE IN ACTION: How did it get to be so wrong? (www.think-box.co.uk)
• IBM's Power6 spotted bashing Oracle at 4.7GHz (The Register)
• JavaOne 2007, #4: Wrapup (Artima)
• JSR-277: Super JAR and the three kinds of Hell. (weblogs.java.net)
• Terence Parr Introduces ANTLR 3.0 (Artima)
• indent style (www.faqs.org)
• Bill Higgins :: the Uncanny Valley of user interface design (billhiggins.us)
• Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: Concurrency/message passing Newsqueak - Google Video (video.google.com)
• Scruffles.net: JavaFX in Perspective (www.scruffles.net)
• It's Silicon Valley vs. Telcos in Battle for Wireless Spectrum (Wired)
• Gosling (ZDNet)
• Jacek Furmankiewicz: JavaFX - first (negative) impressions (jacekfurmankiewicz.blogspot.com)
• BIN LADEN'S FATWA (Why Ron Paul was Factually Correct) (UBL cited Iraq in 1996 Declaration of War) (www.freerepublic.com)
• Java One, Day Four (Artima)
• Linus Torvalds Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims (www.informationweek.com)
• Palmetto Punditry (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
• Job Interview 2.0: Now With Riddles! (worsethanfailure.com)
• the legal thing... by Mike Dillon (blogs.sun.com)
• College Kid Learns Lesson About Dell's Warranty (www.gripe2ed.com)
• Paid Verizon Bills Don't Always Stay Paid (www.gripe2ed.com)
• JavaOne, Day 2: Is There Anything New To Learn About Web Performance? (Artima)
• JaveOne 2007, Java Puzzlers Points Out Problems with Kitchen Sink (weblogs.java.net)
• The Alphanum Algorithm (www.davekoelle.com)
• Java One, Day One (Artima)
• Cay Horstmann's Blog: Java One Day 2 (weblogs.java.net)
• Cay Horstmann's Blog: Java One Day 1 (weblogs.java.net)
• D.C. Housing Complex Cameras Tell Residents Not To Loiter (blog.wired.com)
• Seven Out of 10 GOP 2008 Hopefuls Could Be Excluded from TV Debate (www.cnsnews.com)
• Hypocrisy on adult consent (www.boston.com)
• U.S. Seeks Closing of Visa Loophole for Britons (New York Times)
• Did McCain Cause 9/11? (www.dailykos.com)
• Scott Adams' Pointy Haired Views On Copyright (techdirt.com)
• techno.blog("Dion"): I am glad I am not a CSci prof (www.almaer.com)
• WP: Foreign Katrina aid rejected, unused (www.msnbc.msn.com)
• Pure Danger Tech » Java 7 (tech.puredanger.com)
• Is the RIAA Pulling a Scam on the Music Industry? (www.dailykos.com)
• Review: Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (distrocenter.linux.com)
• Open tests for open standards (www.1060.org)
• Ubuntu Linux Vs. Windows Vista: The Battle For Your Desktop (www.informationweek.com)
• Today's Capture Headlines Point Up Bush Lie (cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com)
• Neal Gafter's blog: A Consensus Closures JSR Proposal (gafter.blogspot.com)
• JSR Proposal: Closures for Java (www.javac.info)
• Prosecutors Say Corruption in Atlanta Police Dept. Is Widespread (New York Times)
• Six Must-Know HDTV Facts : Ben Patterson (tech.yahoo.com)
• US military accuses Iraq prison chief of aiding enemy (www.afp.com)
• '$100 laptop' to cost $175 (news.yahoo.com)
• Army Officer Accuses Generals of 'Intellectual and Moral Failures' - washingtonpost.com (Washington Post)
• Baghdad Burning (riverbendblog.blogspot.com)
• Sun and I.B.M. to Offer New Class of High (New York Times)
• Ranger alleges cover-up in Tillman case - Yahoo! News (news.yahoo.com)
• A forgotten soldier. (thinkprogress.org)
• Mozilla Firefox (finance.yahoo.com)
• Activists attack sellers of bottled water: PepsiCo, Nestle - Apr. 25, 2007 (money.cnn.com)
• Java theory and practice: The closures debate (IBM DeveloperWorks)
• Ubuntu: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility - OSNews.com (www.osnews.com)
• U.S. soldier hailed for bravery in Iraq says Pentagon spin doctors made it all up (www.dailymail.co.uk)
• How To Disable Windows Genuine Advantage Notification in 3 Simple Stepsg (blog.taragana.com)
• VBA for Macintosh goes away (www.joelonsoftware.com)
• 'Little girl Rambo' decries US propaganda (The Guardian)
• The Silence from an Open Sun (ianskerrett.wordpress.com)
• best of craigslist : From an Angry Soldier (www.craigslist.org)
• Army Sgt. Questions Why American Flags Lowered For VA Tech Students, But Not Troops (thinkprogress.org)
• Bank Of America Let Conwoman Steal My Dead Aunt's Identity And Rob Her Safe Deposit Box (consumerist.com)
• Bitter chocolate (gristmill.grist.org)
• How To: Create Custom Icons for your Mac (macapper.com)
• Army Clamped Down After Tillman's Death (The Guardian)
• Map, Everything's An Object, and Inline (www.knowing.net)
• The politics of saying 'genocide' (www.latimes.com)
• U.S. DOJ joins lawsuit against HP, Sun, Accenture (InfoWorld)
• Resume Driven Development (RDD) (www.healthcareguy.com)
• Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation (www.linux.com)
• 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL (www.itmanagersjournal.com)
• Should JSRs be developed in the open? ... (www.javalobby.org)
• Former Reagan Advisor angry Bush 'bankrupted America' (rawstory.com)
• 5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne (www.radicalbehavior.com)
• Twitter starting to get de-Railed (thebull.macsimumweb.com)
• State Department got mail _ and hackers (news.yahoo.com)
• How Security Companies Sucker Us With Lemons (Wired)
• Getting the Bugs Out: A Conversation With Bug Fixer Brian Harry (java.sun.com)
• Broken Promises to a Broken Gulf (New York Times)
• A Renewed Push for Ethanol, Without the Corn (New York Times)
• New AACS cracks cannot be revoked, says hacker (arstechnica.com)
• Sun's response to Apache Open Letter to Sun (blogs.sun.com)
• 9/11 First Responders Gravely Ill (abcnews.go.com)
• The Gems of Apple’s Development Tools (macapper.com)
• The nightmare Bush dreads most (atimes.com)
• No-Fishing Zones in Tropics Yield Fast Payoffs for Reefs (New York Times)
• Java on the desktop - trail behind or lead forward? (weblogs.java.net)
• Mac OS X 10.5 delayed to October: what about Java 6? (weblogs.java.net)
• Cay Horstmann's Blog: Dr. Gafter comes to SJSU (weblogs.java.net)
• Conan O'Brien's Commencement Speech (www.february-7.com)
• Microsoft sheds light on Flash rival (news.com)
• Wanted: A Windows Edition for Power and Professional Users (codebetter.com)
• Report: Marines broke international law - Yahoo! News (news.yahoo.com)
• Corporate Media Focuses On Wolfowitz’s Girlfriend, Not his World-Class War Crimes (kurtnimmo.com)
• Sun Microsystems makes energy efficiency a priority (money.cnn.com)
• Accusers Recant, but Hopes Still Fade in Sing Sing (New York Times)
• We Don't Need No Stinking Best Effort (PBS)
• Content in lockdown (InfoWorld)
• Strained Army Extends Tours To 15 Months - washingtonpost.com (Washington Post)
• Pas de Deux of Sexuality Is Written in the Genes (New York Times)
• Pentagon Considers Extended Tours for All Soldiers (www.abcnews.go.com)
• Open Letter to Sun Microsystems - JCK - The Apache Software Foundation (www.apache.org)
• Guardian Unlimited (The Guardian)
• Novell lays into Sun Solaris (www.techworld.com)
• At Shea Stadium, Police Choose Perch 20 Feet Above Crowd (New York Times)
• Prison vs. Work (www.singlegrain.com)
• Professor who criticized Bush told added to terrorist 'no-fly' list (rawstory.com)
• Iraqi Details 'Shocking' U.S. Missteps (www.breitbart.com)
• TDD and Exploratory Testing (blog.gdinwiddie.com)
• Editing, Blogging and Common Carrier at Pensieri di un lunatico minore (blog.amber.org)
• Bongwater Into Whine (reason.com)
• Neocon Godmother Considered Iraq War a Mistake (www.davidcorn.com)
• Robert D. Novak - Worse Than Apartheid? (Washington Post)
• The Conscience of the Colonel: Lt. Col. Stuart Couch (pierretristam.com)
• The Reality-Based Community: We threatened his mother with RAPE?! (www.samefacts.com)
• Army Is Cracking Down on Deserters (New York Times)
• Plug it in, fire it up, Mr. President (www.detnews.com)
• Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Note to content owners: DRM doesn’t work (www.markshuttleworth.com)
• Apple: No, You Can't Have Your Data Back, We're Keeping It (consumerist.com)
• Using Even New PCs Is Ruined by a Tangle Of Trial Programs, Ads (ptech.wsj.com)
• Libertine Conservatives by Anthony Gregory (www.lewrockwell.com)
• Is Flash better than Java? (blogs.zdnet.com)
• Beyond Net Neutrality (PBS)
• Is Josh Bloch the biggest problem for closures? (rickyclarkson.blogspot.com)
• OpenLogic survey warm on GPL 3 (news.com)
• Why are geeks often atheist? (m4th.com)
• How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War (Washington Post)
• Ten Things Your Restaurant Will Not Tell You (finance.yahoo.com)
• EXCLUSIVE: Soldier In New Friendly Fire Case Did Not Get Full Training (www.editorandpublisher.com)
• GPLv3 - Transcript of Richard Stallman in Brussels, Belgium; 2007-04-01 (fsfeurope.org)
• Despite its aging design, the x86 is still in charge (news.com)
• Blu-ray Disc Specification Change Threatens Current Players (www.dailytech.com)
• Detainee says he confessed to stop torture (www.latimes.com)
• What is two plus two? (jimbojw.com)
• Poor People ... Being So Platform-Dependent (blog.lundak.org)
• Early U.S. Daylight Savings a bust in power savings  (today.reuters.com)
• Serenity named top sci-fi movie (BBC)
• Why Does Bill O’Reilly Hate Our Troops and American Values? (www.crooksandliars.com)
• Mac OS X running on Apple TV (www.appletvhacks.net)
• Consumer complaints about Capital One - Low Limit, High Charges (www.consumeraffairs.com)
• Supreme Court Preview -- Resale Price Maintenance (www.acsblog.org)
• My National Security Letter Gag Order (Washington Post)
• How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers (blogs.zdnet.com)
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• Ian Murdock: Debian "missing a big opportunity" (www.linuxformat.co.uk)
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• Adobe Intros Apollo Development Apps (www.newsfactor.com)
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• Worries grow over mental health of U.S. soldiers (uk.reuters.com)
• Death Squad in Delaware: The Case of the Murdered Marine by William Norman Grigg (www.lewrockwell.com)
• Closures for Organizing Your Code (gafter.blogspot.com)
• Ex-Auditor Says He Was Told to Be Lax on Oil Fees (New York Times)
• New GPL draft has olive branches, thorns (news.com)
• GPLv3 draft 3 arrives, bans patent pacts (www.linux-watch.com)
• Apple vs Apple TV Mod’rs (tutorialninjas.net)
• Torvalds 'pretty pleased' about new GPL 3 draft (news.com)
• Sun relaunches Sparc chip business (news.com)
• Run Linux, lose warranty (enterprise.linux.com)
• Eyes on the Road (online.wsj.com)
• Ordinary Customers Flagged as Terrorists (Washington Post)
• 15 Tips for Cheap Travel: #2b) How to Find Cheap Plane Tickets (moneyfortherestofus.com)
• Ruby luster readied for Java (JavaWorld)
• New GPL draft due Wednesday (news.com)
• George Monbiot: If we want to save the planet, we need a five-year freeze on biofuels (The Guardian)
• Are Java Programs Racially Profiled? ... (www.javalobby.org)
• Supreme Court Preview -- Resale Price Maintenance (www.acsblog.org)
• Aged, Frail and Denied Care by Their Insurers (New York Times)
• Principles of economics, translated (www.youtube.com)
• LimeWire Defiant in Face of RIAA Pressure | TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
• Why the right goes nuclear over global warming (www.latimes.com)
• Coding Horror: Folding: The Death of the General Purpose CPU (www.codinghorror.com)
• NPR Starts A War (www.medialoper.com)
• To some in Paris, sinister past is back (www.chicagotribune.com)
• The Torvalds Transcript: Why I 'Absolutely Love' GPL Version 2 (www.informationweek.com)
• Al Nye The Lawyer Guy: So What Really Is In A McDonald's Chicken McNugget? (www.alnyethelawyerguy.com)
• Tyler Brûlé: My time as a hostage at Miami International Airport - International Herald Tribune (www.iht.com)
• Rape fears lead women soldiers to suicide, death (www.vermontguardian.com)
• All hail the Java-based x86 emulator (www.regdeveloper.co.uk)
• UAV Fooled to Hide Iraq Murder (Wired)
• E-Vote Memo Is a 'Smoking Gun' (Wired)
• John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies (New York Times)
• Fraud Inquiry Looks at Lawyers in Diet (New York Times)
• O'Reilly Radar > Bag the Schwag (radar.oreilly.com)
• The Softer Side Of Sears: Craftsman Lifetime Warranty Doesn't Apply To Katrina Victims (consumerist.com)
• The Demise Of J# (thinkersroom.com)
• Optimizing ArrayList.removeAll (www.ahmadsoft.org)
• Major New Problems At Walter Reed (www.wusa9.com)
• The limits of Apple's warranty (www.macworld.com)
• Coding Horror: Why Can't Programmers.. Program? (www.codinghorror.com)
• What’s Wrong With Ruby? (www.bitwisemag.com)
• Victims fight back against DMCA abuse (arstechnica.com)
• Emerging Java Technologies at QCon (getahead.org)
• How To Record Customer Service Calls (consumerist.com)
• Jon Galloway : Can Operating Systems tell if they're running in a Virtual Machine? (weblogs.asp.net)
• Homeowner had 'a right to resist' (www.heraldtribune.com)
• Dance, Foxholes, Dance! (nitpicker.blogspot.com)
• This 52-inch screen goes on your head (news.com)
• How to run Vista legally without activation ... for at least a year (www.computerworld.com)
• www.hungtang.com » Annotation-abuse coming soon (www.hungtang.com)
• Guys, Stop Telling me NetBeans is Cooler! (blog.rainer.eschen.name)
• Phony Fraud Charges (New York Times)
• The state of Java modularity: JSRs 277, 291, and 294 (underlap.blogspot.com)
• Posse Brain Dump: JavaDocs from the year 2020 (weblogs.java.net)
• David Van Couvering 's Blog: Cloudscape is no more (weblogs.java.net)
• Rise of the Netflix Hackers (Wired)
• START (Wired)
• RIAA Sues Stroke Victim in Michigan (recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com)
• RIAA lawsuit hits family with no computer or Internet access (www.afterdawn.com)
• What Credit Card Companies Don't Want You to Know (finance.yahoo.com)
• Too many companies are like bad marriages (headrush.typepad.com)
• Seven steps to remarkable customer service (www.joelonsoftware.com)
• Lenovo, CDW Get Kudos From Readers (www.gripe2ed.com)
• Citizens Who Lack Papers Lose Medicaid (New York Times)
• Fox News at Its Finest. (welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com)
• Geek Squad Insider Speaks Out (consumerist.com)
• Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff (PBS)
• Journalists can program, too (www.howardowens.com)
• General: Conservatives Are ‘Absolutely The Worst Thing That’s Happened’ To The U.S. Military (thinkprogress.org)
• Scandal of treatment for wounded Iraq veterans (The Guardian)
• Programming Theorems (www.destraynor.com)
• Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (www.cs.auckland.ac.nz)
• Consult an attorney before beginning any exercise program (blog.360.yahoo.com)
• Java SE Application Design With MVC (java.sun.com)
• A United Kingdom? Maybe (New York Times)
• Veterans Face Vast Inequities Over Disability (New York Times)
• The Great Apple Video Encoder Attack of 2007 (PBS)
• I.R.S. Letting Tax Lawyers Write Rules (New York Times)
• Homeland Security revives supersnoop (washingtontimes.com)
• Israel accused of using Palestinian children as human shields (The Guardian)
• Amazon's Series of Fortunate Events (www.readwriteweb.com)
• Trans Fat Fight Claims Butter as a Victim (New York Times)
• Erasure To Be Erased In Java 7 - Weiqi Gao's Observations (www.weiqigao.com)
• Greg Brown's Blog: Re-Inventing the Applet (weblogs.java.net)
• U.S. attorney scandal update: Who's to blame for those alarming Patriot Act revisions? - By Dahlia Lithwick (www.slate.com)
• Sun Opens Project Darkstar To Game Developers (Dr. Dobbs)
• Research finds Java code most secure (www.itweek.co.uk)
• The growing war between VMWare and Microsoft at Virtualization Daily (www.virtualizationdaily.com)
• I still love Ant (softarc.blogspot.com)
• Matt Mullenweg (www.digital-web.com)
• An all-consuming 'war on terror' (www.baltimoresun.com)
• From Texas cell, Canadian, 9, pleads for help (www.theglobeandmail.com)
• Why so threatened by a union card? (www.latimes.com)
• The Must (New York Times)
• Doubts Rise as States Detain Sex Offenders After Prison (New York Times)
• Java Closure Examples (blog.dannynet.net)
• New Orleans files $77 billion claim against Corps - CNN.com (www.cnn.com)
• National ID Card Rules Unveiled (Wired)
• AppleInsider | Latest Leopard build from Apple suggests much work ahead (www.appleinsider.com)
• Connecticut News from The Hartford Courant ::: State, Regions, & Towns On courant.com (www.courant.com)
• Macworld: Secrets: Reclaim hard-drive space (www.macworld.com)
• Vista activation cracked by brute force (www.theinquirer.net)
• The Programmer from Hades (realworldsa.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com)
• Continuations in Java (Artima)
• Sun Java is faster than C/C++ (blogs.sun.com)
• Is "Open Source" Now Completely Meaningless? (radar.oreilly.com)
• Comparing closures - CICE, BGGA and FCM (www.jroller.com)
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• What Could Possibly Be Worse Than Failure? (worsethanfailure.com)
• Low Pay and Broken Promises Greet Guest Workers (New York Times)
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• Why Can't Programmers.. Program? (www.codinghorror.com)
• Gizmodo's Anti-RIAA Manifesto - Gizmodo (gizmodo.com)
• Did Microsoft want to 'whack' Dell over its Linux dealings? (news.com)
• Safety Last! (weblogs.java.net)
• Patently Bad Move Gags Critics (Wired)
• For Want of a Dentist (Washington Post)
• New Light Shed on CIA's 'Black Site' Prisons (Washington Post)
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• Lies of the vigilantes (The Guardian)
• Politicians' flights called wasteful (www.latimes.com)
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• SpendMatters: Vista, Office and Outlook 2007 are a Nightmare (www.spendmatters.com)
• At 25, Sun struggles to reinvent itself (JavaWorld)
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• Windows Vista: I’m Breaking up with You ~ Chris Pirillo (chris.pirillo.com)
• How FairPlay Works: Apple's iTunes DRM Dilemma (www.roughlydrafted.com)
• First-class methods: Java-style closures (docs.google.com)
• Why Have So Many U.S. Attorneys Been Fired? It Looks a Lot Like Politics (New York Times)
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• Unit Testing your User Interface - Testing Digitally (blog.digitaltester.com)
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• “Oh Dell, why must you disappoint me so?” or “Why I won’t buy Dell right now” (buranen.info)
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• Java Scripting in JDK 6.0 (www.ftponline.com)
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• Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are: Boycott the RIAA in March (gizmodo.com)
• Dana Milbank - Painting Over the Problems at Walter Reed's Building 18 (Washington Post)
• Galloway: Walter Reed Hospital Scandal is 'The Last Straw' (www.editorandpublisher.com)
• Netbeans sabotage (weblogs.java.net)
• Creating Passionate Users: Are our tools making us dumber? (headrush.typepad.com)
• open.itworld.com - Open-source guru knocks Fedora (open.itworld.com)
• Frequently Asked Questions | FlexYourRights.org (www.flexyourrights.org)
• BBC NEWS | Americas | US soldier admits murdering girl (BBC)
• NetBeans 6.0 Milestone 7 Available with New Features (cld.blog-city.com) (cld.blog-city.com)
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• Ruth Marcus - Mitt Romney's Extreme Makeover (Washington Post)
• Coding Horror: Everybody Loves BitTorrent (www.codinghorror.com)
• Sun announces Project Neptune (www.theinquirer.net)
• How to Explain DRM to Your Dad (blog.wired.com)
• Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things - Engadget (www.engadget.com)
• My Microsoft Google Yahoo Stories (tastyresearch.wordpress.com)
• Microsoft dirty tricks that were never revealed: Technology Evangelist (www.technologyevangelist.com)
• Cuba embraces open-source software (fe49.news.sp1.yahoo.com)
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