Sun's has published a Java 1.4.2 Performance Whitepaper. I suggest every self respecting Java programmer should read it, if you already haven't. (This could be really old news to the experts out there.) I thought it had a lot of good info in it! Thanks to Ugo Cei for the link

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Power grid down because of virus?. There are lots of speculations about the powergrid being brought down by a remotely triggered virus. I just found this... [Ovidiu Predescu's Weblog]

Atom Autodiscovery/Introspection in AtomAPI, RSD, WSDL, OWL-S, RDDL Very rough, just to get a feel (more realistic versions welcome).... [Formerly Echo]

Live server-side demo from Joe Gregorio and Mark Pilgrim, in Python running as a single .cgi script. "It supports introspection (to discover what functions are supported), creating new entries, editing existing entries, deleting entries, retrieving entries, and searching for entries.... [Formerly Echo]

Hot off the press: a pre-draft specification describing version 0.2 of the Atom syntax specification, an XML-based format for web content and metadata syndication. It's been written up from the snapshot by MarkNottingham, who gives some background and related opinions... [Formerly Echo]

EFF has added 900 names to its database of Kazaa usernames that appear in the RIAA subpoenas that exploit a legal vulnerability to compel ISPs to reveal their customers' personal information without any due process or evidence. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]