Well, tomorrow I will return to the depths of an empty and barren Mosone Convention Center, and help transform it into the 2005 JavaOne Conference. This will be JavaOne #8 for me, and I'm bringing my camera.

Last year I did a photoblog, trying to capture the spirit of the conference through photos and imagery. I'll be doing the same thing this year, except I'll be posting here.

Anticipation ... well, yeah, what exactly have they concocted for this year's t-shirt hurling contest? I really need to figure out how to be there to witness the chaos, er I mean, the innovations in action first hand.

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Published: (2005-06-22 21:55:17.0)

What if I told you an eccentric millionaire, having decided that America was heading down the genetic tubes (pun intended), went on a crusade to artificially inseminate women with the sperm of geniuses? You probably would tell me that I should stop reading so many scifi books. When I read about "The Genius Factory", I immediately thought of the movie The Boys from Brazil, starring Gregroy Peck. "What a rip off" I thought initially. But then, as I read on, I realized it was true. Holy crap!

"The Genius Factory is the story of the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history: the Nobel Prize sperm bank. It opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades, women flocked to the bank from all over the country to choose a sperm donor from its roster of Nobel-laureate scientists, mathematical prodigies, successful businessmen, and star athletes. But the bank quietly closed its doors in 1999--its founder dead, its confidential records sealed, and the fate of its children and donors unknown. While researching Nobelist William Shockley, a donor to the bank, award-winning Slate columnist David Plotz kept coming across references to the Repository. He realized that no one knew how this audacious venture had turned out. So in early 2001, Plotz set out to solve the mystery of the Nobel Prize sperm bank."

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Published: (2005-06-22 11:26:49.0)

The Great Divide Race, the world's longest non-stop mountain bike race is now underway. There's a blog with the rider's updates (cool!), as well as a map of the waypoints (click on them to see the comments.) Nobody has made it to Wyoming yet. The route they are following is the Great Divide Route, which the Adventure Cycling Association claims is the world's longest off-pavement bike route.

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Published: (2005-06-22 11:15:43.0)