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“Late last year Randy Smith got a text from a complete stranger. She thanked him for putting her to sleep. Smith was shocked to discover that he was a YouTube star. The Ormond Beach, Fla., retiree was even more surprised about why: A tutorial he recorded and sold as a VHS tape in 1989 on how to use Microsoft Word had resurfaced as ‘THE MOST BORING VIDEO EVER MADE’ with 3.1 million views and close to 11,000 comments so far.” WSJ (Gift Article): Is This the Most Boring Man in the World? Insomniacs swear by dull narrators who put them to sleep, whether on purpose or not.

+ Amazingly, there’s a site that just features fake, boring baseball games intended to help people fall asleep. (During the current roadtrip, the SF Giants at-bats have worked for me.)