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OTL: The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis
- slater 14y agoThe future of online media is annoying parallax effects?
- pan69 14y agoI actually enjoyed browsing through this. I can see how a well researched and written article augmented with media elements such as video can be something people are willing to pay for. I think I would. Edit: But you can say, so can any other page on the web. What I actually appreciated about this was the care that had gone into preparing the content. It would also mean that content becomes more individual rather than placing text in a box standard framework like a typical news website does. Edit 2: I can see how e.g. a news site can have publicly available content and content behind a pay-wall that is prepared like the content illustrated in this example. More magazine style content.
- petercooper 14y agoI hate parallax/scrolling effects and.. this is perhaps the least offensive version I've seen. It seems useful as a way to draw attention to quotations and high res photography that's relevant to the narrative, rather than just being flashy. I hope people don't take it too far, but I'm impressed by this. If everyone started to do it? I might change my mind ;-)
- rosser 14y agoThe linked ... article? Media? Whatever it is, isn't loading for me; after more than ten minutes, I'm still just seeing the "buffering" dots. In the interim, assuming it's about the same thing, here's a fantastic animated short about Dock's famous no-hitter, pitched on LSD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUhSYLRw14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUhSYLRw14 EDIT: The problem may have been Chrome, or the extensions I'm using there; it loads right away in Firefox.
- Tichy 14y agoCan anyone explain to a Non-American what the fuss is about? Did he play a very well game on LSD? Or a very bad game? Is it so inconceivable to play a good game while tripping that it warrants a long fawnish article? What is it about?
- spc476 14y agoIn baseball, a "no-hitter" is a game were one team prevents the other team from hitting the ball all game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hitter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hitter) and is quite a rare feat. That Dock Ellis was able to pitch a no-hitter while on LSD is even more remarkable. The article is more about Dock and his life than that one event.
- Tichy 14y agoThanks, that makes it more clear!
- stuaxo 14y agoUsing the cursor keys to try and scroll on that site is really aggravating.