New Zealand (South Island)
Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Lower thirds can be easy with a few cheap tricks (like using video as the backdrop). For more advanced things, Synfig is a great tool, but it's animation proper, so it is a lot more complex.
I do intend to do an article or four about Synfig in the future.
Rmail, run within Emacs, is pretty great as well. Hit 'h' to view messages as a list, use the 'epa' module to encrypt and decrypt with GPG, and all the modern conveniences of Emacs. I switched to it from mutt about a year ago and have been really happy with it.