Twitter user Forest Of Illusion was able to obtain a development unit (prototype) of the Nintendo Switch, who obtained the item through Akfamilyhome. Forest Of Illusion reveals that the unit, which is the earliest model people have found, was referred to as DPRD, though the meaning behind the acronym is unclear. The unit also features some visual differences such as changed volume buttons and different screws.
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The grifter: My 8 year old niece
— Mike Piccolo (@mfpiccolo) February 13, 2021
The prize: Playing virtual hooky permanently (School Zoom calls)
The marks: My sister, my brother in law, the teacher, the school’s computer teacher, the principle and Zoom's support team
The con: How she pulled it off… thread pic.twitter.com/cdz3SRhRu9
We've heard different "tricks" done by students to avoid online classes such as pretending that your internet connection suddenly slowed down, but this eight-year-old had this "big brain" moment I haven't even thought of doing!
Day 1: (Zero Day) My sister has three kids, all are currently in Zoom classes. Mysteriously one day, my niece's zoom stopped working. She went and told my sister who tried for over an hour to get her logged back in but could not. She figured it was a weird glitch.
— Mike Piccolo (@mfpiccolo) February 13, 2021
Her Zoom hack? She entered the wrong password a lot of times which caused her account to be banned from signing in. She was able to do this tactic for three weeks straight, and at least eight adults were tricked! What more, her mother even considered homeschooling her because she gave up on the problem.
See the story unfold on Twitter.
Credits to Mike Piccolo
I'm sure you've heard about the Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez. Staying at home means having more time to watch movies, specifically crime movies and documentaries! In the past months, I've been checking different titles which made me curious enough to search about real-life crimes. Luckily, I found a list about "The most infamous crime committed in every state" compiled by the Insider. Here are three interesting entries:
CONNECTICUT: The murder of Helle Crafts, aka "The Wood Chipper Murder," in Newtown
Most people know the murder of flight attendant Helle Crafts by its nickname, "The Wood Chipper Murder." In 1986, Crafts went missing after catching her pilot husband Richard cheating on her — he told police that she had left him to return to Denmark, where she was originally from, but her friends and the police weren't convinced.
After searching the Crafts' home, authorities found credit card statements for suspicious items that were nowhere to be found in the house, such as a freezer, bed sheets, and a rented wood chipper. The police also found bits of bone, a fingernail, and hair samples that they said were Helle's.
The prosecution contended that Crafts had become enraged with his wife, murdered her, cut her body up with the chainsaw, and then disposed of it using the rented woodchipper. The jury deliberated for eight hours before ruling Crafts guilty of his wife's murder. The verdict was a state first: a guilty ruling without a body.
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FLORIDA: The death of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony in Orlando
Caylee Anthony, 2, was reported missing by her maternal grandmother, Cindy, who told police that she hadn't seen Caylee in 31 days and that her daughter's car smelled like a body. What followed was a bizarre (and confusing) sequence of events.
First, Casey reported that Caylee had been abducted by her nanny, and she hadn't reported this to the authorities because she was scared — in reality, there was no nanny. Other lies and inconsistencies included that Casey told her parents she worked at Universal Studios (untrue), and that she seemed to be acting perfectly normal even though her daughter was missing.
When Caylee's remains were found in a plastic bag, the state of Florida officially charged Casey with her murder and announced they were seeking the death penalty, starting what has been dubbed the "social media trial of the century" by Time.
Casey's defense team claimed that Caylee had drowned in her family's pool, and that Casey's father George had disposed of Caylee's body in order to save Casey from neglect charges. They also claimed that George sexually abused Casey (which he denied) and that she was afraid of him, which is why she didn't report him to authorities.
Casey was eventually found not guilty, and Caylee's murder remains unsolved.
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ILLINOIS: The "perfect crime" of Leopold and Loeb in Chicago
Leopold and Loeb were two rich, smart, and privileged college students in Chicago who wanted to prove their intellectual superiority by committing the perfect crime.
They spent months planning to kidnap and murder a child, and in May 1924 turned their plan into action. They offered Bobby Franks (Loeb's 14-year-old cousin) a ride home, then bludgeoned him to death. When they disposed of Franks' body, however, Leopold made a fatal flaw — he dropped his glasses. While they were regular glasses, they had a special hinge that only three people in Chicago had. The pair was quickly arrested and convicted, and admitted that they only committed the murder for the thrill of it.
Loeb was murdered in prison, and Leopold served 34 years and was released on parole in 1958. He died at 67 due to a diabetes-related heart attack.
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A long-running Icelandic game show called Gettu betur (Guess Better) pits teams of students against each other. During Friday's game, when the results were announced, one member of the losing side took issue with the ruling. You don't have to understand Icelandic to follow this. He even makes a spectacle of himself after going off camera! -via Boing Boing
Couldn't help myself. Draw an iceberg and see how it would actually float in water: https://t.co/HSqRwjVVk7 https://t.co/ziobrmDknV
— Joshua Tauberer (@JoshData) February 19, 2021
Glaciologist and climate scientist Megan Thompson-Munson wants to correct the popular image of icebergs. Yes, 90% of an iceberg is underwater, but they don't float the way you see them in stock photos. Read her explanation at Twitter.
Inspired by that thread, Joshua Tauberer made Iceberger, a web toy in which you can draw your own iceberg. As soon as you're finished, the iceberg will orient itself naturally as physics would dictate. Sure, you can draw a unicorn or any other shape that comes to mind, but it won't float the way you intended, and you'll only see a small fraction above the waterline. Have fun with it! -via Metafilter
Have you eaten fried chicken with a knife and fork? Played Bingo without a non-profit license? Or have you put on a puppet show in a window? If you've done these things and they're legal where you are, that might not be the case if you're in a different state.
In The List Show by Mental Floss, they've listed 19 Weird Laws You Might Have Broken, some of which are indeed bizarre. Take this for example:
WRESTLING A BEAR
The weirdest thing about some laws is that they ever needed to exist—like in Oklahoma, where people were wrestling bears at such an astonishing rate that the state had to step in and institute a fine and possible jail sentence for anyone caught grappling with a bear.
Though there are laws in the list that are reasonable, they're fascinating to read because they seem to be done by everyone, like "Burning a CD for your friends."
Photo by Nadine Primeau on Unsplash
When the TARDIS is ready for s crossover episode, she heads straight for the Star Wars universe. Here she is portrayed by Tinker Bre as Princess Leia in her slave outfit from Return of the Jedi. Sometimes she poses with her husband, who dresses as a Eleventh Doctor Han Solo.
Well, yes: the first question would be "Why would anyone do this?" Let us set that aside now and instead ponder "How would anyone do this?" For the answer, we consult the nail artists at Nail Sunny in St. Petersburg, Russia (and growing internationally to other cities). At Nail Sunny, you can get a very pretty set of nails or you can get an attention-grabbing work of art applied to your fingers.
In all honesty, it’s very satisfying to watch people restore old items and make them look like they never aged a day. It’s also wonderful to be reminded that there’s a way to repair old items so that they could last for a longer time. The Small Workshop restores a rusty knife that they found where their grandpa’s house used to be. They estimate that the knife must be more or less around 100 years old, as the house stood there for 100 years. Watch as they turn the old knife into a small wood carving knife.
The vast majority of work by Mike Batz, an erotic artist, is not for suitable for Neatorama, but his inspired underpants design is a notable exception. He applies the inherent roominess of the croc shoe to the anatomical requirements for male clothing. On hot days, the ventilation is an added bonus.
Well, sort of. It’s not Toy Story in real life, so apologies if you’re disappointed. Lego Vidiyo, made in collaboration with Universal Music Group, looks like the usual Lego toy. You follow the instructions and build a box to carry a Lego figurine in it. But where does the ‘bringing the figurine to life’ action come in? Well, it comes in via an accompanying smartphone app. Once you take a picture of that figurine from the app, it will dance and sing on the application.
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In the 1991 horror film The Silence of the Lambs, Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb is a serial killer who captures, mutilates, and murders his victims in grotesque methods. His home was Hell on Earth. Soon, you'll be able to stay there!
Chris Rowan, a theater professional, has purchased the house outside of Pittsburgh used for the movie. He plans to open it to guests as a bed and breakfast. The New York Post reports:
Rowan won’t have to do much to restore the four-bedroom, one-bathroom house to its horror glory — the home outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, already has many of its original features, including its old-fashioned wallpaper, hardwood floors, pocket doors and dark wood trim. And the exterior of the three-story house is the same yellowish-red brick with a wraparound porch as seen in the movie.
For movie fans, though, the house will prove to be a fixer-upper:
But the most important renovation will be the infamous well in the basement where Hollywood’s original psychopathic B&B, played by Levine, traps his victims.
Filmmakers shot the basement well scenes off-site — the house doesn’t actually have a creepy hole in the ground — but the new owner reportedly plans to add one to give guests the full Buffalo Bill experience.
-via David Burge | Photo: Realtor.com
Gizmodo introduces us to the Maxus Life Home V90 Villa, a Chinese-made van RV. It's vertically huge over a tiny footprint. The second story (please lower before driving) has a dining area and a balcony.
Researchers from UNSW Sydney and the South Australian Museum have been studying the rings of ancient New Zealand kauri trees, which can record environmental changes over many thousands of years. They found clues about the last time the earth’s magnetic poles switched, around 42,000 years ago. The environmental effects of the magnetic field thinning to a small fraction of normality would have been cataclysmic not only to the environment, but to people who witnessed it. Solar flares, ionized air, aurora, and electrical storms would have been quite frightening.
The researchers theorise that the dramatic environmental changes may have caused early humans to seek more shelter. This could explain the sudden appearance of cave art around the world roughly 42,000 years ago.
"We think that the sharp increases in UV levels, particularly during solar flares, would suddenly make caves very valuable shelters," says Prof. Cooper. "The common cave art motif of red ochre handprints may signal it was being used as sunscreen, a technique still used today by some groups.
"The amazing images created in the caves during this time have been preserved, while other art out in open areas has since eroded, making it appear that art suddenly starts 42,000 years ago."
While the temporary flipping of the magnetic poles (which lasted 800 years) is called the Laschamps Excursion, the researchers in this study refer to the beginning of the flip 42,000 years ago as the Adams Event, in honor of Douglas Adams, who knew the answer to everything is 42.
"The more we looked at the data, the more everything pointed to 42," says Prof. Turney. "It was uncanny.
"Douglas Adams was clearly on to something, after all."
There are a lot more possibilities about the Adams Event and how it may have shaped human history at Phys Org.
(Image credit: Gabinete de Prensa del Gobierno de Cantabria)
Tom Bob is trying to spark life into cities by painting over random objects around these cities. From drain pipes to vents, to manhole covers, to pavement, to poles, and to fire hydrants, the graffiti artist paints his signature cartoonish creatures over these random objects to add more character and life to them. Tom started with the streets of New York, and has hopped from city to city to continue his colorful agenda. Bored Panda lists some of his creations here. What’s your favorite piece from the artist?
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