Have you ever been entranced by the most idiotic and trivial things? There used to be a toy that was magnet based and had a spinning wheel that would travel back and forth along two metal bars. It's simplicity is astounding, yet it can captivate people for hours. It becomes a part of their psyche to continue to back and forth motion during conversations, and sometimes they learn how to do some tasks with one hand in order to continue.
This tendency also applies to electronics. There are so many cool interactive videos and graphs available. Generally, people watch out for these trivial time consumers, but most of us fall prey to one or another from time to time. Mine was a roofing company site. They had a picture of a two story house with a whole slew of color options and roofing types in neatly labeled boxes off to the side. If you clicked on a box, the whole roof on the house would change to that color and style. It doesn't matter if you're looking at roofing in Austin or Maine, the site could be helpful and also ultimately distracting. To make it even better, there was a server error and the picture split in two, so it ended up displaying these cool two toned roofs. Roofing is definitely not on my to-do list, but the site had my attention for quite some time.
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