Best Swing tutorial?

I've always wanted to get into Swing, but I have two left feet.
Okay, so in all seriousness I was wondering what you think the best Swing tutorial is? I'd prefer online to paper, but I'm open to any suggestions. As to what I want to do with Swing, I really can't say other than that I want to learn the basics. I've developed a lot of apps with user interfaces on the web and I want to try developing an app that doesn't require a web server or other overhead for a change.
So, who would you Swing with?

Hi everyone,
If you ask me i would say
If you ask me i would say sun's official swing
tutorial. But if you find a better one let me know as
well
Richard WestNow if only you were smart enough to see that he posted the question in the swing forum (and properly provided a link to it by the way), you would have perhaps been apt to answer him over there instead of here, you idiotic troll you.

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