Some kind soul has helped the Harmony mailing list be available on Gmane as the newsgroup "gmane.comp.java.harmony.devel". Thank you!
As was also observed by someone else, I find it rather amusing, and sad, that several years of effort on GCJ, Kaffe and Classpath did not seem to generate as much buzz as a single announcement of an intention by the ASF to create a J2SE 5 implementation.
"Technology and Courage"
"Technology and Courage" (PDF) by Ivan Sutherland. (Thanks Prakash!)