My family is Serbian (Bosnian Serb, more accurately). What my family went through during the Tito era and prior is an interesting story. My grandfathers cousins were part of the Black Hand who assassinated Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo leading to WW1. My father was an active participant in anti-government movements during the 70s and was kicked out of the country as a result (and later arrested when he return, resulting in an international diplomatic indecent as he was an Australian citizen at the time).
Anyway, we weren't allowed to visit again until '01. When we did, we attempted to visit Jasenovac, but the police had road blocks on every road approaching the site in a wide radius. We were blocked from approaching the site from two different directions, and on the second attempt were essentially told to go away and that there was 'nothing to see here'.
The Croatian government has since become a lot more progressive, but there is still a large element of denial for what is essentially the Auschwitz of the Balkans.
The old Yugoslav government of Tito also didn't acknowledge what took place at Jasenovac - which is a large part of the reason why the rest of the world doesn't know about it. Tito pushed it all aside in the name of moving forward with 'brotherhood and unity'.
And btw, a lot of the monuments that you see in this post, at least those that were dedicated to the partizans and 'the workers', have since been heavily graffitied and vandalized. The local populations took their anger for the former state out on these huge monuments that were built at large expense.
I would add Erlang and node.js to the list. I need to build a HTTP server for frequent polling for a project that I am working on (polling or websockets if available, lots of users) and I narrowed down building that component in either Erlang, node.js or Python.
I have really taken a liking to the Erlang model. Processes share no memory and communicate by passing messages. There is no shared state locking/mutex.
Once I have more data/information (benchmarks, ease of development/integration etc.) I will publish my results.
Part III: http://designtheatre.net/2010/05/01/going-it-alone-part-iii-...
The author was also on a panel at TC Dirupt NY called 'getting it built' - which you can find here:
http://disrupt.techcrunch.com/2010-nyc/agenda/#built
Liam Casey was also on that panel - he is a good guy and a great contact to have in Shenzen (if any HN'ers are looking to build hardware - email him)