Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: General
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It appears from the (unintentional) research being carried out by my children that the breakfast cereal Weetbix possesses strange transdimensional properties rivaling the TARDIS. Indeed, if a child takes a Weetbix (is that a plural?) and then crushes it into a bowl, flakes of wheat are relocated through minute wormholes in the space-time continuum to…
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Noticed that the second installment of Radio New Zealand’s Are Angels OK plays this Tuesday night on National Radio. From the web site, A series of programmes arising from a collaboration between eminent New Zealand writers and physicists. The project is named Are Angels OK and is the work of The Royal Society, The MacDiarmid…
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This looks cool. Point it a star and get the star’s name. Wonder if it works downunder? See: SkyScout.
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Finished reading Hicksville and loved it. Enjoyed the New Zealand themes entwined with the comic book themes. There’s several bits in it where Charles Heaphy, James Cook and Hone Heke continue their conversation about why the islands of Aotearoa-New Zealand seem to be physically drifting (read the book for more explanation), and there’s a strand…
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Scotland beat England in the 6-Nations! Woo hoo! First France and now England. Party time up north. See Planet-Rugby.com : Hadden lauds his ‘magnificent’ Scots.
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Saw this today – wind generation that uses a different sort of “propellor” that is quieter than the regular sort. See Quietrevolution. The LED-lit version looks good and might be able to be intergrated into the cityscape with minimal impact.
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Brilliant opening spell on Saturday by the Hurricanes before losing shape (and Smith) to get through in the end to a bonus point. I thought the Western Force played better than the score (29-5) indicated and expect them to knock off a couple of teams later on in the competition. Maybe even the Chiefs next…
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The UN World Food Programme has a video game out to educate people about different aspects of emergency food relief operations. it looks well done and runs on both Macs and PCs, with the only hitch being the several hundred megabyte download. More information at WFP Foodforce – The Game, The Reality, How to Help…
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An article by Guy Kawasaki on generating community – Let the Good Times Roll–by Guy Kawasaki: The Art of Creating a Community. Aimed primarily at generating communities to support business it has some points that would translate into building communities – particularly online ones – for other purposes. The article is being updated and revised…
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A year ago I posted a link to the New Zealand Short Films web site where, strangely enough, you could watch NZ short films online. Now you can download some of them as MPEG-4 files for your iPod. The MPEG-4 files should play in Quicktime on PC and Mac too.