Pundit's Monitor
Looks like Elias had a fun weekend creating Pundit's Monitor, a political blog monitoring tool using a heap of Java tech: the Nutch search engine/web crawler, Burton's TailRank FeedParser for auto-discovery and ROME for feed parsing (though he doesn't mention that in the post).
Netbeans 5.5 themed Roller blog
You've already heard the news about the Netbeans 5.5 release yesterday, so I won't bore you with that. Instead, check out the new Netbeans 5.5 theme on the Netbeans Profiler blog at JRoller.com. Very nicely done. And it scales too, Watt will like that.