OTL: The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis

In 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) 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.

I 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.

I 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 ;-)