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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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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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Christmas: Pirate vs Ninja Holiday Card Set
Still looking for some unusual holiday cards. Maybe the Pirate vs Ninja card set is for you.
12 cards for about 14 Dollars.
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Video: Levitating Water
Amazing how you can fool the eye with a strobe light and some streams of water.
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Games: Fallout 3 Mod – Wasteland Dancin’ (Umpa)
Great F3 animation created with the Umpa Animation MOD.
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Tiny Tags Online Generator
The small online application TinyTags creates little tag graphics with the text you enter. Images can be downloaded or saved to Flickr or ImageShack and you can turn your tag into a t-shirt too.
Nice little toy, might come handy in the holiday season.
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