Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: General
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Mary Hess has some thoughts on Bono’s recent interview in Rolling Stone (Tensegrities: Bono on the influence of God in U2’s music) as well as links through to the podcast of the interview.
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A couple of short term exhibits put on by the Museum of New Zealand – Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, NZ) The Genetic Revolution. (3 September 2005 – 23 January 2006, Wellington) The Biotechnology Roadshow. (13 October 2005 – 01 April 2006, various locations in NZ) Anyone know if they are worth going to?
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A new computer game teaches the strategies of non-violent resistance/conflict. Intriguing. From the web site “A Force More Powerful : The Game of Nonviolent Strategy“, Can a computer game teach players how to defeat real-world adversaries – dictators, military occupiers, and corrupt rulers – by bypassing laser rays and AK47s and choosing instead a non-military…
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In the last few days I received in the mail a couple of things from the Families Commission – Komihana a Whanau. One is a summary of their Focus on Families report which is a “study set out to improve understanding of successful outcomes for families with dependent children and the things that help and…
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There’s another advanced screening of Serenity on this Sunday at Village Cinemas on Queen Street (Auckland). Tie in with the Pulp Culture festival also on at the Aotea Centre. See: Serenity – Special Advanced Screening – 23 Oct. Also, Serenity interviews here and the River Tam viral marketing campaign for Serenity here.
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Well, Radio New Zealand has revamped its internet presence with a relaunched web site. Now there are live audio streams, archives of some programs for seven days and RSS feeds (text only) for news and programming (National & ConcertFM). No podcasting explicitly and it’s still a few steps behind larger media providers like ABC radio…
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I’ve made some changes to the layout of the site – primarily to fix some Windows IE problems and to tidy things up. All the posts, RSS feeds etc. should still have the same URLs. Some of the old documents from the original Blogger based site are missing for the moment. If it looks bizarre/broken…
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You can see the first 11 minutes of Serenity as an video stream here.
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Following up on yesterday’s posting some more links and comment. If you were listening to “Nine-to-Noon” yesterday on Radio NZ National Radio after the 10am news you would have heard Linda Clark’s interview with Angus Kinnaird, one of the figures behind some of the recent Australian church and parachurch marketing campaigns. In that interview he…
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Paul continues his ABC marketing campaign over at Slashing through the Information Jungle: Marketing Jesus pointing to a podcast on a youth-focused station which does an expose on the Bible Society’s marketing strategy. Podcast for Triple J 30 September can be found here (10.3Mb). From the blurb, Tonight on Hack we take calls on the…