Java Performance Tuning author Jack Shirazi went to JavaOne and watched a bunch of presentations on large-scale deployments. From this, he's generated all new tuning heuristics for your edification and pleasure.

I wish these guys would get over their anti-commercial attitude and get on teevee already. "Adult Swim" would be much improved if they had a few shorts like this in the rotation.

I'm gonna start a petition to MAKE them take some money from the teevee people!!!!

I'm laughing so hard my face hurts. I'm also running through my list of friends classifying each as "TweedleDee & TweedleDum" and "Ren & Stimpy" now, thanks.

Frank J. talks about hurricanes. I laughed out-loud enough to make people stand up out of their cubicles to see what was happening.

Cue the music! Dinesh D'Souza writes a stirring article on why he became an American. Most of these are obvious after-the-fact, but this is still well worth reading.

I wonder if this workflow engine will produce a stable release ... it sounds like a promising project. I wish them luck, which I suspect they're going to need since they've stopped COMPLETELY EFFING DEAD IN THE WATER to change build systems. I hope the "change the build system" need came across them because something in the old build system was fundamentally b0rken, not because they felt compelled to lemming off behind Maven (rant forthcoming).