Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: General
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I’m an avid watcher of cooking shows, and if some interesting sport or science fiction isn’t on you’re likely to find me watching (in the spare seconds I have in my life) something on Food TV, which shows a selection of from mostly the US, UK and Australian. (Way, way back in the dark ages…
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Tagged by Jo (over at JoBloggs: book meme) here’s my perspective on the current book meme: 1. One book that changed your life. Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment. 2. One book you’ve read more than once Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine. 3. One book you’d want on a…
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I’ve read some pretty positive (Christian) anthropology recently, but then you come across something like this and you just have to wonder: Woman mails five-foot python | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com
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Another interesting article on the use of computer and video games as agents for sociopolitical change. Morph: Serious Games, Digital Storytelling and Public Perceptions Serious games, Thompson writes, “immerse people in the real world, full of real-time political crises. And the games’ designers aren’t just selling a voyeuristic thrill. Games, they argue, can be more…
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Follow up from Greenflame: Friends in need at Manawatu Standard: Mum, sons safe in Cyprus, but yet to contact family. Good news for them, though the overall situation continues to be dire.
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When you see your friends in the newspaper you hope that it’s for something good, not necessarily this – Family dive for cover as shrapnel strikes – 20 Jul 2006 – Lebanon Kyrie eleison Christe elesison Kyrie eleison Praying for them, and all in that part of the world.
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Via Tensegrities a link through to Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: Sneak Preview: NBC’s Heroes. Contains a good overview of what the new TV series “Heroes” looks like (having seen the pilot). He argues it’s in the style of a Vertigo or Image style comic – darker and with more…
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A real “mish-mash” of ideas in this emotional outburst here. See Stuff.co.nz: Federated Farmers’ chief slams environmentalists. Definitely falls towards the “Wise Use” end of the spectrum identified in the article: Jim Ball, “The Use of Ecology in the Evangelical Protestant Response to the Ecological Crisis”, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 50 (March 1998),…
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Two roommates, one hidden camera, one energetic dance routine, 2 minutes of internet fame. It all comes together here at glumbert.com | media | Dance, White Boy, Dance.
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The last week has seemed incredibly busy. School holidays combined with two birthdays in the immediate family, my wedding anniversary, kids’ soccer, preaching today out in the country at Riverhead, plus normal family stuff, plus ongoing thesis stuff. Exhausted just thinking about it all.