Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: General
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A few weeks back (Greenflame: Home Library Software) I started looking for some software to organize all our books at home. I had a look at various piece of software and settled for Booxter because it did what we wanted, ran under Jaguar (OSX 10.2) on the Mac and was inexpensive (NZ$22.50). One of the…
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I grew up just north of Wellington looking at this view everyday. Our elevation was greater so we could see out over the Golden Gate peninsula to the Tasman Sea as well as a greater sweep of Pauatahanui Inlet but the same bay was always there. There’s something soul refreshing about watching the sea (just…
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Here’s a movie clip of the paragliders. They looked so close you felt you could touch them. The second glider taking off in the clip just made it off the ground and over the trees. (Pop-up window with Paragliding Movie [Streaming QuickTime 950K]). I’ve never posted a movie before in Movable Type so it’s a…
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Watching paragliders at North Head, Devonport today while exploring the old gun emplacement tunnels with family.
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Not sure if B5 will make it on the big screen. Part of the appeal was 5 years of interconnected stories that built upon each other to produce a “novel”. Exploring a variety of interesting ideas. In a movie there’s no time for that so I expect it will be more of an “action-flick”. Still…
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From Comic Book Movies by David Hughes, Why this sudden fascination with comic book heroes? Perhaps because so many directors and studio executives grew up (as I did) on Marvel and DC comics – an entire generation learned about morality, heroism and the difficult choices faced by heroes not from the classics, but from Spider-Man…
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Here’s a link to a book that’s a collection of photos of Iceland that comes from the creator of the movie below. Some very nice shots in the gallery section. See: Iceland – Another Take.
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I’ve always been a fan of panoramas made up of mutiple photographs. Here’s a site I discovered recently dedicated to the various aspects of panorama making with archives from around the world. See the New Year’s page at: Panoramas.dk – New Year celebrations around the world – Fullscreen QTVR photos.
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Following a link from an article on copyright stuff I came across this incident where a girl was prevented (wrongly) by a gallery guard from sketching art works on display. How nuts is this? Eyewitness News 11.com: Young Prospective Artist Finds Herself in a ‘No Sketch’ Zone
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Treehugger: Q&A. Eco Coffee for the Office.