Secret Agent Radio: a chill but interesting combo of ambient/acid jazz/trip hop/etc. stuff. The soundtrack to your life as a secret agent. Good coding music.

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Secret Agent Radio: Da Bomb Shits

] SWT FAQ

SWT FAQ... was invaluable in getting "Hello Jello!" to run from Eclipse.

SWT FAQ

] The beaches of Goa are the highlights of travel in this
] state, making Goa the premier beach vacation destination.
] The first beach stop over in Goa is Anjuna beach also
] famous for its flea market and rave parties, then visit
] Baga and Dona Paula beaches that can make any beach
] holiday a memorable one. All in all Goa's 100-km long
] coastline gives an enthusiastic beach lover an
] opportunity to discover new secluded beach sites every
] day.

Goan Beaches

Map of Goa

Tourist Map of Goa

] Rave season in Goa lasts from September to March, and for
] much of that stretch there are parties every other night.
] The locales vary -- Ajuna, Disco Valley, Japora or Badam
] are the most frequent venues -- depending on which police
] official or civil servant can be bribed at the lowest
] price; baksheesh (bribery) is an Indian institution. The
] organizers are ad hoc consortiums of chai-mat vendors,
] bar owners, drug dealers and land-owners looking for a
] quick rupee. At every one of these affairs you see the
] same old Crown or Macintosh amplifiers and beat-up
] Ritchie mixing boards; the output, a meaty 5,000 watts,
] is usually doubled by BGW preamps. No one uses
] turntables. (If you've ever had to haul hundreds of
] pounds of vinyl to a club or a friend's house, then you
] understand the impracticality of lugging albums around
] the world, not to mention the excess baggage surcharges
] airlines will impose.) The DJs who work the Goa raves do
] so with cassette or digital audio tape. A trio of Sony
] Professional Walkmans or Sony or Aiwa digital audio tape
] players are the Goan equivalent to the twin direct-drive
] Technics turntables ubiquitous to most nightclubs in the
] Western world.

Goa is good.

Salon Wanderlust | Raving in Goa

I'd seen some of these satellite photos before but there are a number of very impressive ones in this collection that I hadn't seen. Particularly the 5th one.

Tsunami - Receding waters, Kalutara Beach, Sri Lanka

] Eclipse is a free download, and is available on a number
] of platforms. Since IBM launched Eclipse in November
] 2001, more than 18 million download requests have been
] logged from over 125 countries.
]
]
] A growing consortium of high-profile companies and
] organizations are actively supporting and extending
] Eclipse's ongoing development and giving the platform
] momentum. These organizations contribute support and
] technology, and they determine the direction and scope of
] Eclipse's growth.

Apple's Eclipse page. Eclipse is an IDE, and it is built with JFace/SWT. The GIMP is to Gtk+ as Eclipse is to Jface/SWT. They provide a not-so-slow replacement for SWING. Java doesn't have to be slow.

Eclipse and Mac OS X: A Natural Combination

IndiaMike.com: The India Travel Forum

Great place to learn about India. An invaluable resource about Goa for me.

India Travel Forum - powered by vBulletin

] When scientists wanted to explore what kind of life might
] exist on Mars, public television's "NOVA" recorded the
] building and launch of the rovers sent to the planet.
]
] Now, a year later, the "NOVA" team is back with "Welcome
] to Mars," featuring data collected by the robots as they
] searched for signs that the planet may once have harbored
] tiny forms of life. The program airs at 8 tonight on PBS.

I really enjoyed this as well. I was surprised that most of the engineers were in their 30s. I'm used to seeing fuckers in their 40s and 50s in the Apollo movies.

'NOVA' welcomes viewers to Mars - 01/04/05

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