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EclipseME is an Eclipse plugin for J2ME development. I have not installed it yet, but it sounds well worth checking out....

Javalobby has launched a very useful new site: JDocs.com. JDocs offers easy access to Javadocs for many widely used APIs, including the JDK, XML APIs such as Xalan, Xerces, JDom, Castor, and JiBX, frameworks such as Struts, utility APIs such as the Apache Commons APIs, and many others. Currently, about 50 APIs are covered on JDocs, but there are plans of extending this number to 100 or even 150 soon....

Dave Thomas has an interesting proposal on turning excess body fat into laptop energy. He calls this the LipoBattery. It would solve both the problem of overweight programmers, as well as the lack of battery power in laptops. As soon as they actually invent this thing, please sign me up for the beta test! :)

I just came across this article on Boing Boing about the new Paranoia XP pen & paper RPG, which was publicly developed using open source methodologies, including a Wiki and blogs. This mostly caught my eye because I actually used to play this RPG about 15 years ago as a teenager......

I found this nice website on anonymous web browsing. It covers official anonymizers as well as other services that can be used for this purpose, such as Altavista's Babelfish. Interesting...