In which the lessons of ZZ Top are applied to the marketplace (here, via @planetclojure) -- Tangentially related to Clojure, except that the author of the article built Leningen for us, and along the way he did something bad... and nationwide. A good read about why a hacker sometimes needs to assert her/his opinion in the code.
Clojure and SQL (here, via @cfbloggers) -- Short tutorial on getting some SQL working with Clojure.