Hi I’m Jake and whoa...WHOA just back up.
Give me some spaceis.cool.
That was just a way to introduce a website.
In reality I have no personal bubble so
if you see me in public just come up and pet
me on the face.
Peferably.  This actually kinda feels nice. oooh yeah.
Anyways that’s a DONG and here are some
more DONGs, things you can do online now guys.
Hey it’s been a while since I’ve seen
you.
I mean probably only a few seconds since
the intro but I love you so much it felt like
4.6 billion years.
But it wasn’t.
What really happened 4.6 billion years ago
was Earth’s formation.
This is timelineofearth.com and as I said
it starts off when our beautiful planet was formed.
Scroll through and see when important events
occurred or certain species arrived.
Around 3.8 billion years ago, the first single-celled
organisms appeared.
This is pretty widely accepted as of now
but there have been suggestions of life dating
back possibly even further.
This website spans 4.6 billion years so I’ll
let you do some exploring for yourself but
it’s pretty dang cool to see things like when certain species evolved or went extinct.
For example at a little over 250 million years
ago the Siberian Volcano is thought to have
caused the largest known mass extinction to
date.
It killed 70% of land species and kept erupting
for about two million years.
Now let’s skip ahead to when humans evolved
to their modern form.
If you look at how thin this line is in
comparison to the whole timeline you can see
we really haven’t been around very long at all.
And ya know what’s been around for even
less time?
Morse code.
Ya wanna learn it?
Well I have two options for you.
One, go watch the DONG with Michael from a
few weeks ago on Morse Code or go to
Morse typing trainer.
Michael gave a brief overview of visual
mnemonics but mainly focused on verbal mnemonics.
This site gives you visual mnemonics by
shaping the dots and dashes to a picture that
starts with the same letter you are learning.
For example, A is one dot and one dash and
it fits pretty well with this bow and arrow
or archery which starts with an A. You’ll
be taken through the same letters for a while
until you get pretty good at them.  Which you will because you're not only good looking
But you're a genius.
Then you'll be given new ones to learn.
First go through the practice rounds and then
on to the tests.
Don’t mess this up.
Make Michael Stevens proud.
He's a...he's my dad.
And ya know, I like to make him proud.
And then make me proud by playing an epic
song on
Keyboard.
On this site you can choose between marimba,
piano, guitar, synth, strings, and choir.
I’ll go for choir.
If 5 notes seems limiting, never fear my friends
because you can change it to fifteen.
Huh.  15.
That's how old Michael was when he had me.
Now of course you can just hover your mouse
over the notes and do things that way but
I’m not old fashioned so I’m gonna use
my body to make these people sing.
By my body I mean Hannah's body.
YEAHHH!!!  Go Hannah!
It’s quite a bit like that previous DONG
sound canvas but the sounds are a lot more
pleasant this time around.
Now that you’re in a musical mood check
out
LanguageGuesser.
To start the game type in your name or an
equally cool name like Tiberius Jake Taco Roper the 3rd.
You will then be given a series of music
videos to watch and listen to.
Underneath it there will be four language
options.
Your job is to guess which language is being
spoken in the video.
You get 3 points for a correct answer on
the first try and it won’t let you move
on until you guess it correctly.
Maybe you’ve never heard some of these languages
spoken let alone sung but hopefully process
of elimination will help.
And even if you don’t score perfectly
it’s a good way to practice recognizing
other languages which is always a good skill.
Now I’m sure your score will be perfect
because you are perfect.
Your face shines like the sun.
But where does the sun shine?
More importantly though where is it directly above?
Head to Under the sun to find out.
This website is constantly changing because
the relative position of sun and Earth are
constantly changing.
The latitude and longitude are shown here.
It’s likely you can’t immediately envision
where that is but you can look at the little
globe up here in the left-hand corner.
If you wanna double check that it’s true,
go to latlong.net, type in the coordinates
and you’ll see that it matches.  Good job.
Now that we’ve sculpted ourselves into experts
on the sun’s position let’s just sculpt
with this lump of clay.
It’s kind of therapeutic not just because
you gain confidence when you create something
like this, but also because it really emulates the texture of actual clay.
Now let's try and make Hannah.
On the right you will be given a drop down
menu of different tools to make your masterpiece of Hannah
like inflate to thicken it in a certain spot
or smooth to fix it when you mess that up...kind of.
Looking pretty good, Hannah!  Wow.  Share your Hannah's with Hannah.
Just tweet at the DONG thing and we'll see it.
Anyway, look at that Hannah.  What's your Hannah look like?  Again send it to the DONG twitter.  #ClayHannah.
It’s almost as beautiful as the music on
bellwoods.xyz.
Just click and hold for this little kite
to soar through a field of music.
Ahhh that is Tranquil.
Speaking of tranquil, my friend Austin Evans, who you might know
He's a lovely young man.  I've known him since he was about this
tall.  You can't see it because the frame cuts off there but
my hand's at a very short distance from the ground.
Anyways he created a new channel called This Is and it's a very interesting
informational journey that you get to go on where we explore things like this is a
bird death ray and all this cool stuff.
So there will be a link to This Is down there.
Go check it out.  I love Austin Evans and I'm so excited for his new channel.
Austin if you're walk...blelirjajblrojjajkhg
Austin, if you're watching this.  I love you.  You know what else I love?
Links to DONGs which are down there. Playlists of DONGs which are right over here.
And I also love you.  And as always,
Line! What's my line?
Thanks for watching.
