The double meaning of "Soot and Java"

Eric | November 8, 2010

For a while now, I have been using Google alerts to be notified whenever somebody writes something on Soot and Java. Normally this is quite a good way to find out about new uses of the Soot framework, but not so this month: 😐

Eruptions intensify from deadly Java volcano
Financial Times
on the outskirts of the Central Java city of Yogyakarta, to a radius of 15km. blanketing everything in grey soot and making it hard to breathe.


Dozens killed in latest Mount Merapi eruption
France24
on Friday when Mount Merapi on Indonesia’s Java island erupted once again, altitude of cruising jetliners and the runway was covered in grey soot.
Indonesian volcano’s biggest eruption in a century smothers whole
Toronto Star
Merapi seen from Klaten district in Central Java province before dawn on Nov. all layered in white ash and soot — dotted the smouldering landscape.
Erupting Indonesian volcano kills dozens
Radio Netherlands
Villagers return to their village to feed livestocks as searing ash clouds shoot from the crater of Mount Merapi in Klaten district, Central Java,
Mt. Merapi unleashes most violent eruption in memory
Financial Times
In the nearby city of Yogyakarta, around 25 kilometres from the summit, clouds of soot forced the airport to close and blocked out the sun.
Borobudur reopens to the public
eTurboNews
2010 Less than a week after the eruption of Mount Merapi in central Java, leaving an ash blanket on the monument carrying acid soot, which damaged

Mt. Merapi may erupt for weeks, months
Seer Press
Mount Merapi, on the Indonesia island of Java, may continue to erupt for weeks or months The volcano exploded again on Monday, sending ash and soot six