OK, let me try to be more helpful. Here's good backgrounders

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/Technology/Concurrency/

http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/10/05/the-cambrian-period-of...

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...

http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2008/09/jvm-language-su.h...

http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/pdf/36_Click_fastbcs.pdf

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also recommended: Herlihy/Shavit book, blogs by Sutter and Duffy,

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Maurice...

http://herbsutter.com/

http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/Default.aspx