Things of Your Day

The Very Slow Movie Player.

It plays a movie at 24fph. That’s per hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiQPAjZ-KNg

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPJZJBah8-s

Mike McCain, the artist who made this image, was selling it for $25, with all the proceeds going to the ACLU. Unfortunately, it’s no longer available for sale.

I’m tempted to just print out the image and donate $25 to the ACLU in his name.

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Remember in the '90s when you wanted to send an e-greeting card there was a site bluemountain.com?

The guy who made that site sold it for a fortune long long ago. Today, he became Governor of Colorado. The second LGBT governor of a US state and the first Jewish governor of Colorado.

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I knew he was one of the (few) congresspeople that understands the internet, but now I know why.

Not a congressperson anymore.

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I don’t know a lot about baseball. I have heard the name Barry Bonds before as a famous player in that sport, but I never had any metrics of comparison. But this video does a great job illustrating it, though I had to look up what some of the stats mentioned even mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwMfT2cZGHg

Jon Bois is pretty fucking awesome in terms of “Weird Sports what-ifs”.

https://youtu.be/uraG-z0grkc

Yeah, since that video I’ve been watching his “Pretty Good” and “Chart Party” videos and they are really good.

His newest one is called fighting in the age in loneliness. It’s a documentary about MMA and combat sports.

If you haven’t read 17776 yet, I would recommend you correct that.

I read it a couple of years ago when it came out. Probably should reread it at some point.