A very thoughtful 'article' by Bruce Eckel about the state of affairs of 'the Web'
This is a nice small applet that displays the JVM version of your JavaPlugin, when enabled. This turns out to be really helpful on Mac OS X.
Systhread is a site about operating systems and programming for real operating system and programming enthusiasts, hobbyists, evangelicals and the like. It is derived from previous sites I have operated and had to (for one reason or another) abandon.