Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: General
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Based on my experiences in the past 6 months there’s definitely an element of truth in this recent post on JonnyB’s private secret diary.
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Well, low tech in the sense that they don’t need batteries. Still need the internet to access the web pages that tell you about them and, in PocketMod’s case, create the file to print out. 🙂 PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer CreativeIQ: Discover PocketMod. The low-tech PDA. Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders
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MONDOLITHIC STUDIOS – EcoHome – Artist’s impression (and accompanying text) on sustainable dwellings produced for National Geographic Kids. MONDOLITHIC STUDIOS – An Earth Without Us – Again, artistic representation (& text) about how our technologized landscape might change if all human beings suddenly disappeared.
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Links to a couple of images I saw recently on Mondolithic Studios’ web site. Different Futures. The choices we make now affect those who follow. Dark Energy. Resonates for me with William Blake’s lines from ‘Auguries of Innocence’, as well as with the dreams of the nanotechnologists. To see a World in a Grain of…
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Radio New Zealand National : Programmes A-Z : Nine to Noon : Wed, 18 July had an interesting section from their employment lawyer Andrew Scott-Howman on employers and potential employers using information available on employees (and potential employees) on social networking sites. Audio link here.
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Books on the go at the moment. Writing at the Edge of the Universe Published by Canterbury University Press (2003), it’s a collection of essays, interviews, reflections and talks from the ‘Creative Writing in New Zealand’ Conference. Covers everything from politics, young adults fiction, comics, hypertext, and definitions of ‘cultural’ within the NZ writing scene.…
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Article in the NZ Herald notes that it’s illegal to borrow material from some public libraries if you have a communicable disease. More details at Law bans sick book borrowers – 15 Jul 2007 – NZ Herald: New Zealand National news. Right up there with the recent segment on Radio NZ National’s This Way Up,…
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Back home after having my gall bladder removed by laproscopic surgery yesterday. No problems with the operation and feel quite good apart from some tenderness. Still a bit of CO2 fizzing around inside though. Asked to keep the gall stones but they turned out to be more of a sludge than nice stones – so…
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Well, not quite. There aren’t enough positions around to apply for a new one every day 🙁 Still, at the start of every week I go through all the emails that get sent to me from various job sites and tertiary educational institutions HR systems, check university, church and college web sites, plus RSS feeds…
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The Dominion Post has some pretty summaries of the 2006 census up on its web site available for download. How the data is presented is as interesting as the figures themselves. See NZ by the numbers – Features – Dominion Post Related links: 2006 Census Data – Statistics New Zealand Selected tables – Statistics New…