Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: General
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It’s that time of year again with the rugby Super 12 starting on Friday. So in a brave (foolhardy?) move I predict that the Hurricanes should get to the semi-finals this year. A weakened Queensland on Saturday followed by the South African leg (where they play better than most away teams) and then a stack…
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At the Virtual Theology I mentioned in passing the series of User Friendly cartoons that talked about auctioning advertising space on your body for cash. (http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050205) Now reality(?) catches up with virtuality in NZ with a pregnant woman doing just that via the main NZ online auction service. NZ Herald : Mother auctions her bump…
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Now this looks excellent. Just heard about it on the radio. An online encyclopedia of New Zealand put together by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage / Te Manatū Taonga. Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand In Māori, Te Ara means ‘the pathway’. Through interlinking text and image trails, the Encyclopedia takes you on a…
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Came across this the other day. A Star Wars fan film made, of all places, just down the road (New Lynn is a location). Described as, a parody of fandom set in the heady days of 1999, a couple of weeks before the release of ‘The Phantom Menace’. The world is excited, people are queuing…
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Came across this today while tracking down information about the Star Wars fan file “Fanboys”. New Zealand Short Films | Watch Movies Online
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Saw that last week TVNZ’s channel One started afternoon children’s television with a whole lot of new programmes (at least to us). They look way better than the animated commercials that seemed to populate the other channels for the past few years with drama and documentary-type programmes aimed at children. (What a radical idea –…
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Interesting article in this week’s Listener (Chicken Soup of the Wallet by Noel O’Hare) which comments on doctors in the UK sending people to libraries to read “self-help” books rather than prescribe anti-depressants. The main thrust of the argument seems to be that patients get to be proactively about their situation as well as also…
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Back in Greenflame: Book catalogue started I said that Booxter couldn’t handle DVD and VHS information/lookups. In fact today I found that there is a switch that allows you, as in Books, to use an Amazon ASIN as an ISBN and so you can look up DVDs and VHS tapes and pull down the catalogue…
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Just had to find out whether it is “Hokey Cokey/Tokey/Pokey”. Here are a couple of variant orgins: The Christchurch Ballroom Dancing Club : Cokey Cokey. Telegraph : Doing hokey cokey ‘mimics Latin Mass’
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Some useful details about making your own system for collecting book details from scanning through to ISBN lookup via the net. The Book-Scanning Project Shouldn’t be too hard to convert the examples into an app on the Mac or Windows.