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For the Java fans out there, here comes a nicely produced JarWars, as found by Kirk.

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Cisco owns iPhone, not Apple

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Disco Dancing Santa Claus

My 6year son is now giving me links for compiledby! He found this great disco dancing santa that is very funny.

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Skype users to get lie detectors

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What Can't Open Source Achieve in the Next 10 Years? | Linux Journal

Gly Moody writes a blog on what he sees could be the next 10 years after reviewing just how far it has come in the last.

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Festive return for singing sheep

Its the season of novelty records, and there is nothing more novel than a singing christmas sheep!

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Bush's daughter's phone on 'eBay'

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From the desk Santa

A very funny letter found by Joe illustrating just how the whole present giving system works.

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Five reasons to forget about C

Well, Joe found this article on why C should go the way of the dodo

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Open source Java presents world of opportunities

Now that Java is open source what can we do with it?

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Is IBM Happy Over Sun's Open Source Java?

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Golden Gate Bridge considers corporate sponsors

Come on Cisco, time to step up and offer some money to the very symbol that has inspired your corporate logo for years

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'Hairy Fairy' treats shoppers

A modern day fairy, albeit a middle aged man in a pink dress, is handing out free lunches and good deeds in Cornwall England

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Million Dollar Challenge

Need to earn $1M? Then simply prove the existence of the paranormal and you'll be laughing all the way to the bank. Come forth all soothsayers.

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Rocky Balboa Trailer

Rocky is back! Trailer looks promising

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Beyonce and Eva Longoria as lesbians next film

My wife found this news nugget - Sophia Coppola will be thanked by men worldwide if her next film gets the go-ahead. :)

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The Conference Community

Andy found this conference site where you can review and discover all about past and future conferences. Pretty neat idea.

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Digging Deep into the Sun/GPL Announcement

James Turner writes a beautiful piece on the reality of the announcement that Java is now GPL. Well worth the read.

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Microsoft hands OSI olive branch, JBoss 5; Revenge of the kernel, Sun again and a pool of beer

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In a bizarre twist of fate, Microsoft has invited the president of OSI to have a chat with them to see how better (or if) they can work together. eWeek is reporting on this olive-branch move and if this does indeed happen, what happens next? Who is our collective hate figure? These talks have much great implications than people probably realise.

JBoss's blog today sees Bill Burke talking about what they are up to with JBoss 5 and the changes they are doing, including rewriting the microkernel to allow them to integrate various features but also to allow them to deliver an embeddable J2EE server. An interesting concept.

Continuing the run of Sun in the news, TheRegister has a story about Sun's decision to pull its Blade product line, while it regroups and redesigns it for later in 2006. This has angered a number of big customers who invested in a product line that is no longer available.

Finally a story that has popped up that will be of interest to at least some of our SpikeSource engineers (mentioning no names Glen!). Many relax upon an evening with a glass of cool beer. Well, the citizens of Tarrenz can go one better, and literally climb in and swim in said cool beer. A pool of beer! Staggers belief.

Microsoft vs. Linux: Execs Talk Detente
JBoss 5 Microkernel
Sun exits blade server market
The Beer Pool

Microsoft vs. Linux: Execs Talk Detente

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In continuing its outreach to the most prominent members of the open-source community, Microsoft has invited Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative and vice president of open-source affairs at Linux vendor Red Hat, to meet and start a constructive dialogue

JBoss 5 Microkernel

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In JBoss 5, Adrian Brock, is rearchitecting our microkernel. There's a bunch of features we want to be able to support. Much of the new microcontainer is complete and we will gradually introduce these features into JBoss 5 via tech preview and alpha releases.

Sun exits blade server market

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If you're looking to buy a blade server in the near future, then Sun Microsystems won't be your supplier of choice. Sun has pulled its entire line of Sparc-, Xeon- and Athlon-based blades and its Sun Fire B1600 Blade chassis

The Beer Pool

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[Gizmodo] In a story entitled "Das erste Bier-Schwimmbad der Welt," which we assume translates to "Please Don't Pee In Our Beer Pool," it appears that the city of Tarrenz now has a pool filled with sweet, sweet liquid bread. But don't try drinking from the beer pool directly—according to this Babelfished translation, you don't swim in a cool, crisp lager but in filtered, yeasty wort.

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