Just got this link through slashdot:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17879317/site/newsweek/

More than 91% of Americans believe in God and most of them believe Evolution is false. And we are still calling the country technologically one of the most advanced in the world!

Here is a quick tip (that I learned the hard way around) if you are running Spring auto-wired Unit Tests with TestNG; on your base test class, add this to make it compatible with JUnit style tests:

public abstract class BaseTest extends
AbstractTransactionalDataSourceSpringContextTests {

 @BeforeTest(alwaysRun = true)
 public void testNGsetUp() throws Exception {
     super.setUp();
 }

 @AfterTest(alwaysRun = true)
 public void testNGtearDown() throws Exception {
     super.tearDown();
 }

 @Override
 protected String[] getConfigLocations() {
     setAutowireMode(AUTOWIRE_BY_NAME);
     setDependencyCheck(false);
  
     return new String[] { "appContext.xml" };
 }

}

I am taking a quick look at JBoss Seams. The quote "Seam is the only web framework today that supports lazy loading correctly for web applications" from http://www.infoq.com/articles/jboss-seam seems rather provoking. Let's see if it is upto the real challenge.

One of the funniest videos I've seen recently:
Bill gates + Napoleon Dynamite!

I've been looking at a couple of Java UI frameworks: GWT, ZK, Echo2. All looks quite impressive on its own stand. I am very impressed and surprised with GWT. Applets reborn as JavaScript!