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The Codex is a resource guide as well as an ever-growing compendium of how-to information and arcana to help you along the path toward enlightenment and a sustainable lifestyle here in the Age of Technology.

I created it in the hopes of retaining knowledge which otherwise might soon become extinct.

Below, you will find an archival listing of every entry that's been posted under the "Codex" category. That category is divided into sub-categories, which can be reached by topic if you hover your mouse over the Codex button in the task bar above.

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Last Updated: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
55 Fun Activities You Can Do Instead of Exercising

For everyone (like me) who hates the mind-numbing, boring procedure of getting fit (and I believe we are the majority), here’s an idea to make it a little less boring and maybe even fun: don’t do exercises, do fun things instead. Take the following list, print it out and post

Last Updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010
The 12 Rules of Personal Style [For Men]

Who we are as individuals and how people perceive us is determined by our style: the image that we project. It’s defined by the clothes we wear, our demeanor, the way we interact with others and a hundred thousand other undefinable minutiae. Thank goodness for us there’s

Last Updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010
10 Steps to Zen [Part 2]: Simplify Your Wardrobe

If you really want to simplify your wardrobe, just adopt one completely-individual uniform as your own and wear it every day. Fictional characters do it all the time. Santa Claus does it, superheroes do it. Look at Indiana Jones: the hat, jacket, shirt and shoes…all part of

Last Updated: Friday, February 12, 2010
10 Steps to Zen [Part 1]: Minimize Your Vegetative States

Image by I Am Ming This is no crusade against television. But naturally it’s television that comes first to my head when I think of vegetative states. We blame television for many of the ills of society, so this is the first alarm triggered in my head. But… the longer

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Herbal Sun Tea [Brew Your Own]

Right off the bat, let me say that I realize herbal tea is technically not tea at all. But it’s called herbal tea and for me that’s good enough. I realize they’re referring to the process more than the ingredients when referring to tea. Anyway… According to

Last Updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010
10 Steps to Zen [The Simple Life Manifesto]

There was a time, not very long ago, that when the sun went down people went to sleep. There was no television, no gaming console, no cell phone. There was no one to keep up with every moment of the day, no RSS feeds to monitor. There wasn’t even a good light to read a book

Last Updated: Thursday, March 11, 2010
How To Use A Charcoal Chimney Starter [The 10 Step Method]

Toss aside that squirt bottle of lighter fluid, my friend, you don’t need it any more. That slight tang of gasoline your 10 oz. filet once had? It’s a thing of the past. And no longer do you have to smell chemicals while you grill. No, the chimney starter has solved that

Last Updated: Sunday, February 7, 2010
Homemade Butter – without a churn

Don’t be scared by this quest. It’s really one of the easiest–and most rewarding–quests of all. Rewarding because fresh homemade butter is soooooo good. You’re going to love this. Now, you could go and get your own milk, as in, milk a cow. Once you’ve

Last Updated: Sunday, February 7, 2010
Everyday Feng Shui For Your Home, Office and Life

Building a Mountain of Zen Sadly, Feng Shui over the last decade or so has become all the rage in the West, and so, like the pop culture we are, we bastardized it. Turned it into a method of aesthetic design and a way to reduce clutter. For some reason, we see those Zen gardens and

Last Updated: Sunday, February 7, 2010
The Supernatural in Everyday Life

In this modern era of advanced understanding which is rooted in deliberate, methodical, scientific study, it’s sometimes amazing to see how many things there are that are still utterly unexplainable. And we’re not talking about unproven phenomena based solely on eyewitness

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