Hey! I'm Michael and I have a surprise for you. Are you ready? Okay!
Bringinthecats.com.
It's an adorable DONG, something you can do online now guys.
Do any of you remember that number memory test I showed you? Well probably not because I
never did but here it is! The average person can remember about seven numbers in a row. But let’s
see what you’ve got. A sequence of numbers will appear on the screen for a few seconds
and when they go away write what you remember. Some of you might remember more than 7 and
some less but you’re still smart you just need to
Deeply focus on deepfocus.io. Here you can listen to a variety of sounds
kind of like a previously featured DONG, but this one has a timer. So if you only want
to listen to coffee shop noises for five minutes, you can do that. Alright let’s start.
Oh you wanna move on? Well that's fine
because you can also search for music in this box.
Or stop and start making your own on
Melody-maker! Select rectangular blocks and play to
see how it sounds. You can mess around with it as it loops to see
what you like and don’t like. You can also speed it up. This button adds more notes and
it sounds
beautiful.
You can also just swap sound for visuals on this website
Voxel Critter Creator. Click to add voxels, shift click to remove them, and select colors
here. It’s sedentary but your critter deserves to exercise so make
it move with animation. When you do so a scale will appear down here. The plus sign
adds another frame so add and subtract voxels or whatever you need to do for a more moving masterpiece.
Now it can be hard to make a straight line since it’s tricky to grasp where voxels are in
relation to each other. But with the rotation feature you can achieve anything.
Relax and have a ball with
3D ball game. At first it the ball will roll
away from you but no one turns their back on you. So chase it using W A S D on your keyboard. Bump it around
and have some fun. Keep in mind that sometimes you will lose it and have to back up pretty
far to start all over again. But don’t get angry and blow up when you can blow
Bubbles around the world. This DONG is really cool because you can use a smartphone to play
around with it but you can also watch them float around using a computer. Once you copy
this URL into your phone you’ll be given the option to blow a bubble. Oh look now I
have to play a game where I drag as many bubbles down into the yellow at once. But the most
amazing part is how it brings part of the world together with your fingertips.
When you press and hold down a bubble you’ll see where someone blew it from. So far I’m
seeing a lot from Nairobi Kenya which is awesome but let’s find some others. Here’s one
from Switzerland. And Columbia! Speaking of bringing people together
Go ahead and play Fluidz. Which is supposed to be a two person game but right now I guess
it’s only me. So let’s see which part of me wins. Use wasd for the blue and the
arrow keys for the red. The goal is to be the first to blow ten fluid blobs to the opposite
side. The complicated fluid dynamics involved in this game make it very challenging.
Oh yay red won! I knew I would win. But also I lost so I’ll cheer myself up with
3D Landscapes. Now this was recommended to us on Twitter by Anthony Cabrera and it is awesome. It
requires your webcam. It’s best to be in a well-lit room. Once it’s going it will
use your surroundings to create cool images like these. Click and drag to look around and
enter to pause it. There’s something calming about it but ya know what else
is calming? QuoDB the movie quotes database.
Enter a word of phrase to see where and in what movies it has been said.
For instance if you search "mouse" you'll see that in Shawshank Redemption "If you hear so much as a mouse fart in here tonight."
was said.
Finally it is no surprise that I love books.
Books give you an opportunity to dive into someone else's mind for a long time to
experience how they think and articulate themselves. It makes you better at doing the same.
That's why I'm very excited and very thankful for support on this episode from Audible.
Audible carries a selection of audio books but also news and comedy. It's fantastic.
And they are not only supporting this show but they're also going to give you a 30 day free trial
in which you can get a free audio book. Now I know what you're thinking
which book should I get Michael? I'm glad you asked. That's why I'm here.
I would highly recommend Carlo Rovelli's "Reality is Not what it Seems, the Journey to Quantum Gravity."
I've actually met Rovelli in person when he was working on an earlier book. He writes with a kind of contagious curiosity that will leave
your brain after you've listened to this book hungrier than it's ever been before.
You can get that book and a 30 day free trial by going to audible.com/doonline
all in lowercase letters. That's all it takes and if you don't keep using the service you can keep the book.
That's what I love about Audible. Unlike a streaming or rental service you actually own the books you get from Audible.
So check that out. Really appreciate it. Thank you Audible and as always, thanks for watching.