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Weekend Activity: Create an Origami Christmas tree
With the holidays almost around the corner maybe its a good time to practice some new skills. How about creating some Origami Christmas Trees.
The Origami Resource Center has a series of example folding instruction for you to begin with.
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Advertising: SUVasaurus commercial
Great advertising but we would be more impressed if this would be a marketing campaign for a Hybrid or Plug-in version of that car. Maybe next year.
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Books: Complete George Orwells work online
If you want to read one of George Orwell’s classics like 1984 or Animal Farm again (or read it for the first time because you grown up in a country like the former Soviet Union that made it illegal to read or own his work) then have a look at George-Orwell.org.
Besides his well known writing it also includes his essays like for example “How the Poor Die”. You will also find links to the complete work of Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare on the site.
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Music: NYC Kermit
One for the night.
Kermit sings LCD Soundsystems New York I love you
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Skiing: New snow in Utah
As you can see from this great Telemark extreme skiing video by J.T. Robinson it has started to snow over in Utah.
Great filming, great sound, great snow, we are sooooo jealous.
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Video: Colours
A great play with colors mixing and floating quietly. Good to calm you down.
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Infographics: Did You Know 3.0
This is the 3rd revised edition of the “Did You Know” infographics animation. A few things sounded quite familiar but still worth watching.
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Time: PanAm 1937 Pacific Air Travel
It was quite a trip to cross the Pacific in the 1930s particularly by plane. When PanAm in 1936 started the first air service from the west coast to China it took 60h flight time and roughly 5 1/2 days travel time.
Have a look at the 1937 PanAm brochure for details of the trip that was scanned in by Telstar Logistics.
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Street Art: Graffiti stencils from Helsinki
A brilliant stencil spotted in Helsinki, Finland.
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Augmented Reality: A monster on your desk
If you want to try out augmented reality effects for yourself all you need is Flash and a web cam connected to your computer.
Uses the Papervision and the FLARToolkit flash components. You’ll find some more examples at the FLARToolkit web site (link below). The Boffswana page (link below) has step by step instructions and the PDF with the marker. Source code is available.
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