Over at InternalMemos.com: The Java Problem: A nasty memo by a Sun employee ripping Java hard. Even if it’s fake, it makes some great points.
If you ever wanted to get started developing your own games: How do I make games?, an essay by Geoff Howland, sounds like just the path to follow.
Both of these via flutterby.
Update: The Sun memo was real!
So if the memo is two years old, and everything it criticizes has been fixed now, shouldn’t Java (and especially Java-on-Solaris) users feel incensed at having been sold such snake oil in 2001?