Global Warming needs a Chris Columbus to cast it in Harry Potter comeback!

Ok, here's the theory.

Rosario Dawson, this hot chick who played Mimi in the musical Rent 
directed by Chris Columbus in 2005, she'll play a character called 
Climate Change in a movie called Two Degrees 2 Dooms Day.

She needs a hero, of course. Who's the hero? 
(Columbus directed Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 
and Harry Potter and the Sourcer's Stone. 
He's also produced the Night in the Museum flicks.) 

So Harry Potter? The museum attendant? 

Obama will do, I suppose. 

But he doesn't have much time to save the girl. 

But here's why he'll try....

If only there was a way. Wait!

Gamer. Mind control. Never send a man to do a boy's job.
Gamer comes out in September. 
But here's the link for the trailer: 

A boy controls an avatar in a first-person shooter, called Slayer, 
where the avatars are real people.

Now, if children and young people were controlling the 
players at Copenhagen who were deciding their future ... 
they'd save the girl - wouldn't they?
But to win they'd have to beat the system ruled by the 
Castles of the world (Castle is a character in Gamer
 played by Dexter's Michael C Hall - interesting casting, isn't it?)
Dexter is a TV show about a serial killer who's a cop.

Game over.

Scriffles: Blockbuster closing 1000 stores in the USA. Visiting Hollywood writer/producer gives video stores five years.

I went along to hear a working Hollywood writer/producer, Paul Margolis, give a talk in Brisbane on Tuesday.

And I was shocked when he said Blockbuster in the US was closing 1000 stores: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10353762-17.html
Margolis (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546803/), who's been working in Hollywood for 30 years predicts the demise of video stores within five years.
I believe him. I kinda been expecting it for a while. 
He compares it to newspapers. He quotes a belief that the USA will have only three newspapers in 10 years time.
The trade magazines Variety and The Hollywood Reporter announced last month the scrapping of hard copy prints.
They are publishing online only now.
Movie studios aren't green lighting projects just because there are big names like Brad Pitt or Steven Spielberg attached.
Now everyone's on an even playing ground.
He listed the obstacles writers face: self-doubt, writer's block, nervousness, rejection...
Like The Nothingness from Never Ending Story, these obstacles are afflicting whole new landscapes, whole industries ... 
I don't hear business complaining about technological change destroying jobs in the same way as they complain about carbon trading schemes and programs to address climate change.
Technological change is inevitable while climate change is optional? I don't think so.
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Scriffles: What's a beach sunrise worth?

We walked up to the lighthouse, collected shells, watched huge fish swim near the rocks with schools of whiting. Saw a Kite carry a fish across the sky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahminy_Kite   
Saw beautiful yellow-tailed black cockatoos climbing treetops that tower over the beach: http://www.avianweb.com/yellowtailedblackcockatoo.html
Tiny, tiny, little crabs scuttled over the sand. A flock of 10 pelicans flew in formation over our heads in the afternoon. Caught a wave or two, kicked waves into submission. Dug huge holes in the sand. Went to sleep listening the ocean. Went to the beach at dawn by myself. Mum called from the balcony as I slinked out the beach gate. I felt like a kid on Christmas morn being caught sneaking a peek at the gifts before everyone was awake. Great visit. This year has been a record for the past decade I think. I've been to the beach twice this summer already. So many summers have slipped by. Caught a double wave on the boogie board and wooshed all the way to the shore! Yi-i-HA! Didn't watch or read any news. I heard some interesting Mooloolaba news. A local fisherman catches whiting and freezes it in container loads to ship off-shore to be filleted. It's cheaper to do that than pay someone in Australia to do it. Listening the ABC now and hearing that politicians have decided to pay themselves more. Why don't we pay the crabs to dig holes on the beach? They do such a good job. What about paying the mangroves to filter our water? They are better house keepers than politicians. What's clean water and fresh air worth? More than a politician? More than a journalist or a lawyer? As much as a Peace Prize?

<p>Sunrise over Mooloolaba from Lisa Yallamas on Vimeo.</p><p>At 5am there's hardly a soul on the beach to watch the sun come up. By 8am it's like New York's Grand Central Station on a Monday morning. </p>


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Scriffles: The Sin of Omission by Margaret E Sangster. Poem.

It isn't the thing you do, dear,
It is the thing you leave undone
That gives you a bit of a heartache
At the setting of the sun.

The tender word forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flowers you did not send, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts at night.

The stone you might have lifted
Out of a brother's or sister's way,
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle, winning tone
Which you had not time nor thought for
With troubles enough of your own.

Those little acts of kindness
So easily out of mind,
Those chances to be angels
They come in the night and silence,
Each sad, reproachful wraith,
When hope is faint and flagging,
And a chill has fallen on faith.

For life is too short, dear,
And sorrow is all too great,
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late;
And it isn't the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone
Which gives you a bit of a heartache
At the setting of the sun.
XoxoxoxoxoxoxO

Margaret E Sangster

Theory of Living Systems. Fritjof Capra. Scriff File 253

Notes: 

"Sustainability is not about sustaining development, or economic growth or competitive advantage.

What is sustained in a sustainable economy is the web of life on which our long term survival depends.

Technology, social institutions and our way of life must honour and support and co-operate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

Leaves, cells, communities are all living systems - systems within systems.

Difference between living and dead system is "the breath of life" - metabolism.
The flow of energy and matter through a network of chemical reactions that enables the living organism to maintain itself, regenerate itself and perpetuate.

Networks are the basic organisation of life.

The material, the cognitive and the social systems must integrate. 

The key challenge of this century is to build ecologically sustainable communities that do not interfere with nature's ability to sustain life.
This will take collaboration - a unified material framework. The natural sciences, the social sciences and everyone else must work together."

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Simple.