Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: General
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Back home after a very nice week down in the Bay of Plenty and the Waikato catching up with friends and family. Came back with a heap of secondhand books from various places including some from the open air secondhand book sale over in Ohope. Apparently the people there spend the year collecting books from…
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A long time ago (late 80s), in a galaxy far, far away (Christchurch) I read Guy Kawasaki’s “The Macintosh Way” – his book on being an Macintosh evangelist. (Mary Hess has some comments on some of the ideas from that book in a religious context over at Tensegrities: What goes around, comes around?) Anyway, Guy…
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Transcript available here BBC NEWS | Programmes | Analysis | Is God on Their Side? of a programme on politico-religious movements and trends within the US. Via Andii at Nouslife.
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Interesting article on the work of geoarchaeologists in bringing to light new information on ancient Phoenician harbours. See: Ancient Harbors Rise Again — ScienceNOW. Saw the book “Virtual Archaeology” (Maurizio Forte) in the library yesterday but was already carrying an armful of books so had to leave it behind. Next time maybe.
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I read this interview with DJ and music producer Peter Tong because I was following an iPod/Apple thread (see Wired News: Pete Tong: Apple’s Gone Wrong?) and the following quote about DJ-ing stood out The thing about technology — the same as I learned with the advent of CD — if you stop using old…
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Was going to write something about Green Lantern: Rebirth, superhero origin stories and the Incarnation but it’s late, I’m tired and it’s almost Christmas Day and I need to go to bed so I’ll start tomorrow well. So have a good Christmas and all the best for the New Year. P.S. If you do want…
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Tonight’s dinner was interrupted when the spontaneous singing of “A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree” foundered on the eighth day of Christmas – seven eels a swimming and nine sacks of pipis but eight what? The answer of course is “Eight plants of puha”. Now for those of you who don’t know what this is…
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Especially as it would allow you to relocate critters to a better place. See Cool Tool: Bugzooka.
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A very busy week last week and now time to ease into Christmas. Had a nice birthday weekend with family and friends – Saturday morning at the Mainly Music Christmas gathering at church that Kim had organized, followed by walking through the last night of the ‘Drive-Thru Nativity’ at church that evening (that Kim also…
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These look cool. Anything to save 0.5 seconds in a day. 🙂