Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: General
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Looks like the local council, which already has a “zero waste” policy, is investigating the possibility of food recycling. Sounds like a good idea, though the implementation might be an issue. See: STUFF : NATIONAL NEWS : ENVIRONMENT – STORY : Food recycling trial to be considered for Waitakere. Recently we switched from weekly plastics/cans…
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Quite possibly the largest collection of web links I’ve seen for a while over at: Sites Unseen – Earth’s Mightiest Alternative Christian Link Portal. And they have a comic book section.
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Been feeling grumpy this week about people who produce Christian resources that use DVDs and then who region-code them. Had a few possibilities for really good resources for using with our house group but they are only available in Region 2 coding. Not a problem, you might say, just use a region-free DVD player (commonly…
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Links to an assortment of cartoon strips sorted by various philosophical categories. See: PHILOSOPHY COMIX.
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A long time ago (circa 1994-96) in a galaxy far, far away (Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ) I was involved in the team that created the original WEKA data mining software. Since then the software has evolved into a significant open-source data mining package. Ian Witten and Eibe Frank published the book Data Mining: Practical Machine…
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Take the Ecological Footprint Quiz. The quiz is based on national consumption averages and is meant to give you an idea of your Ecological Footprint relative to other people in the country you live in. It is not highly detailed, but should give most people an idea of where they stand. I don’t stand as…
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For those of you in Waitakere City, you can pick up your copy of ‘Native to the West’ – a guide for planting and restoring the nature of Waitakere City. Free to Waitakere City residents and ratepayers. (Copies available at public libraries or from the council) From the media release, If you live in Waitakere…
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The Make Poverty History campaign has a local web site now. Check out: Make Poverty History (New Zealand-Aotearoa) No local banner yet for NZ web sites (but nothing that a little Javascript hacking can’t fix).
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The NZ Listener article I mentioned a few weeks back has come off online embargo. See: Turns out we didn’t save the whales afterall by Dave Hansford | New Zealand Listener. Related whale stories at: The New Zealand Herald : Group rejects Japanese plans for coastal whale hunt. The New Zealand Herald : Whale burger…
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Interesting article in yesterday’s NZ Herald on plagiarism and Waikato University’s attempts to stamp in out. See: NZ Herald : Not in their own words by Philippa Stevenson. One of the things about attempts by Amazon to build online digital libraries is that facility they provide for being to search books for key words or…