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  • 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.

Hey! I'm Michael and I have a surprise for you. Are you ready? Okay!

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