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I've been watching (well, mostly just listening but still) a number of the JavaPolis 2004 recordings for a couple of weeks now and today I ended up browsing through the JavaPolis Music Awards 2004 image gallery.

(please forgive me for the mockery -- I couldn't resist)

Gavin King made an impression by showing off his sensitive side with a ballad to JBoss, followed by a real heartbreaker by Stephan Janssen. Vincent Massol crazed the audience with his Saturday Night Fever act and the oh-so-memorable talking hand thing. However, the most grandiose show was without a doubt the philharmonic orchestra led by Craig McClanaghan and this guy.

I don't know if this is just an urban legend, and I'm sure many of you have already seen it, but since it came up on a company internal mailing list last week and because I really dig the story, I decided to share it:

The Graphing Calculator Story

Mike Clark has the hots for Google Maps. I would too if only they would add Helsinki to their system... Anyway, Google has once again done a good job. The service works great and looks even better.

Yes, a video game written in Ant. Check it out.
(via: Cedric and Dion)
(tangent: Jon seems to use story cards :)