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Time Waster: Shave Your Yeti
Exactly what the title says: Shave a Yeti within a Flash applet.
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National Geographic: How to make Zero G Idents
The spots shown at the beginning of this video might not be so spectacular, but watch how those have been made later in this clip.
Amazing.
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Humor: What’s your Seduction Style?
Great quiz, funny questions, excellent visuals and good sense of humor.
Try for yourself (Goto: Extras – What’s your Seduction Style).
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Animation: Genre
In this animation creator Don Hertzfeldt examines almost every movie genre in existence, plus a few he made up himself. And all that of course with rabbits.
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Weekend Activity: Build your own Zen Garden
Japanese Zen Gardens are known for their calming effects and for centuries gardeners in Japan have cultivated, groomed and maintained Zen rock gardens and their dry landscape style called Karesansui (“withered landscape”).
Scientist analyzing one of the World most famous Zen gardens, the Zen rock garden of the Ryoanji Temple (Temple of the Peaceful Dragon) in Kyoto revealed that the calming effect is due to subliminal messages created by the arrangement of rocks and gravel. If they would have also asked the gardeners maintaining the beauty of that place, they would have learned that – as known to many practicing Zen – that maintaining or arranging such a garden has a calming effect of its own.
While you might not be able to feel the gravel passing through the teeth of your rake within one of these old gardens, you could create yourself a miniature version of a Zen rock garden and enjoy peace and quietness that way.
There are ready made miniature Zen garden sets available, but we put together a few links demonstrating how to create one yourself with parts you might…
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Humor: Shatner on the true meaning of Xmas
This clip is from last year’s CC’s X-Mas special but still a good reminder how much some people “really care“.
Has its moments.
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