Sorry, rcaden, the Coolness Board has ruled almost unanimously that nothing done in Java can be called cool. Sorry, not even Sodaworks. (One delegate wasn't sure.)

Paolo Carlini will be visiting the Boston area mid-August. Are there any Gcc/C++ Software Libre people around here for him to meet? He's also done fractal compression and real-time control. Meanwhile, my wife and kids will be out of town around the same time, which means I might be able to get out myself.

About political discussion on Advogato... This is a hacker's board. If you have a hackish take on events, reveal it. That applies equally to comments historical, relational, commercial, and biological. For example, if your daughter was just born, have you constructed a frame to control the shape her head will grow into? That would be hackish. Steve Oualline just got $200 plus court costs for the copy of MSWinXP that came with his computer. That's legally hackish.