Pizza delivery drivers are humble heroes who do more than merely provide us with delicious pizzas. They can save customers'  lives and rescue children from burning buildings. Tyler Morrell of Cocco's Pizza Aston of Brookhaven, Pennsylvania fits perfectly into that mold.

Yahoo! News reports that on Sunday, Morrell was delivering a pizza when police chased down a suspect who fled his car on foot through a residential neighborhood. Morrell tripped him, sending the suspect down to the ground, where police restrained him within seconds.

What's even more impressive is that Morrell did this without dropping the pizza! He fulfilled both duties of the pizza delivery guy: bringing pizza and taking down criminals.

-via Dave Barry

Latif Nasser is a writer in Los Angeles. He recently shared on Twitter the story of his discovery of and friendship with an Afghan refugee in the United States.

A friend asked Nasser to deliver an antique violin to a man in Los Angeles when he flew home from a trip to New York. He found it annoying to have this chore and burdensome to arrange a meeting to deliver the violin. But Nasser completed the task and was delighted with who he met. The violin's new owner is Ali Esmahilzada.

Prior to the Taliban reconquest of Afghanistan in 2021, Esmahilzada was a famous musician in his own country. But the Taliban hates music and forced Esmahilzada to flee for his life. Nasser found him working part-time in a shopping mall warehouse.

You can read Esmahilzada's story and how Nasser helped him here.

-via Amanda Brennan | Photo: Latif Nasser

The musical collective Postmodern Jukebox has become famous around the world for remixing modern songs with styles from earlier times in the Twentieth Century, including ragtime, jazz, swing, doo wop, sock hop, and more.

Their most recent music video is inspired by the rhythm and blues music of the early 1960s that is depicted in the Broadway stage and film musical Hairspray. Jeffrey James sings "Lucky," a song most famously sung by Britney Spears for an album released in 2000. The lyrics tell the story of a girl who is a Hollywood star and, consequently, thought to be extraordinarily lucky to have such a happy life. But, as would turn out to be appropriate for Spears's own life, is actually lonely and sad.

This isn't some old T-55 from a couple generations ago that you could buy cheaply after the Soviet Union fell in 1991.* This is a T-90, which is Russia's top-shelf modern main battle tank.

Redditor /u/Mutantlight snapped this photo from a Peto's truck stop and casino in Roanoke, Louisiana. The Drive followed on the story and contacted the manager. She said that the truck hauling the trailer with the tank broke down and the driver asked if he could leave it at the stop while he went to Houston for another truck. The Drive learned that the tank had been captured in Ukraine last fall. Somehow, it has been brought to the United States.

-via Dave Barry

*There was some truly amazing Warsaw Pact milsurp available in the early 1990s.

"Gangsta's Paradise" written by Coolio and Doug Rasheed and performed by the former is one of the most iconic hip hop songs of all time. It's even been honored with a "Weird" Al Yankovic parody, which is how a musician knows that he's really made a cultural impact.

The song is a tragic ballad describing the narrator's regret mixed with a sense of honor. It's a crime story that would be well-completed if followed by Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues," which tells us what happens at the end of a criminal career.

In this video, musician Bob Strachan sings Coolio's lyrics with Cash's melody in a powerful synthesis of two genres.

-via The Awesomer

The Little White Chapel in Las Vegas is a famous wedding venue for couples who would like to get married legally, quickly, and stylishly. There are many package options, including getting hitched by an Elvis impersonator and using the drive-thru window for couples who are in a hurry.

Food & Wine magazine reports that on April 15 and 16, couples will also have the option of getting married while standing in front of the iconic Oscar Mayer Wienermobile for free. As a promotional gimmick, Oscar Mayer is covering the cost of the wedding itself and providing a "Hotdogger"--an official Wienermobile driver--to officiate at the ceremony.

-via Jessamyn West | Photo: Oscar Mayer

Algar the Bard is a musician straight out of the Fourteenth Century. He composes and performs adaptations of modern songs with medieval themes and instruments. Past performances include R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" and Black Sabbath's "Iron Man".

For his latest video, Algar is bardrolling us with Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." Nothing about his performance lets us down. Enjoy this chipper approach to the modern classic on the lute-guitar, whistles, and something called an Irish bouzouki. That latter instrument is a modern Irish alteration of a Greek instrument that can be traced back to Byzantine times.

-via Born in Space

Engineer and YouTuber The Q builds many novel and remarkably high-performing machines, most often with bicycles. Recently, we featured his bike tires made out of tennis balls. Those might work well in an off-road environment where punctures are likely.

So might these wheels, which are square. Or, more precisely, these are treads that rotate around a square frame. Inspired by the polyhedral tires in low-resolution video game graphics, he made this tread-bike that is surprisingly functional. I'm especially impressed with how The Q was able to transfer power from the bike pedals to the tread gears on the back wheel.

-via Laughing Squid

iPhones have a handy feature called "Find My iPhone." If you lose your device, you can ping the location from a computer or another phone so that you can track it down.

That's not working out for Scott Schuster of Richmond, Texas. There's a weird glitch in the app that is leading many people to his house, where Find My iPhone has told them that their phones are presently located. This has led to heated confrontations at all hours of the day and night with strangers who think that Schuster has stolen their phones.

Schuster has contacted Apple about the problem. But, so far, they haven't responded.

-via Dave Barry

If the answer is no, well, then, you should have let me know 5 seconds ago. That would have been useful information back in that more innocent bygone age.

Stu McKenzie is a professional snake remover in--you guessed it--Australia. He also dabbles in removing other reptiles, such as monitor lizards, but he mostly deals with snakes.

Last month, he discovered this strange scene. What happened to the frog? His best guess is that the frog ate a dead snake--an extremely venomous Eastern Brown Snake--and was digestively processing it at the time that this photo was taken.

-via Dave Barry | Photo: Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers

The band Klangphonics sees no need to restrict itself to conventional instruments. A power washer is a perfectly acceptable if not ideal instrument if used properly and inventively. In this video, watch the group clean up the pavement while ruminating about feeling pressured by forces beyond our control. If you need to hire someone to pressure wash your driveway, consider these guys. They'll brighten up the pavement and offer a lively conert at the same time.

This inventive approach is nothing new for Klangphonics. It's also made dance-inspiring electronic music videos using wine glasses, cats, a rubber duck, a vacuum cleaner, and a photocopier.

-via Born in Space

Ok I can stop collecting now. pic.twitter.com/2rYtpw9KQc

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In 1997, James Cameron's film Titanic was a, well, titanic success at the box office and the launch of a major pop culture phenomenon. I distinctly remember there was a lot of general interest in the 1912 sinking, so it would make sense that toymakers would produce collectibles to take advantage of the craze.

This apparently included a Transformer-type toy that occasionally pops up on eBay. A more recent alternative version is also on the market.

I'm skeptical that Titanic-Bot would have been a popular combatant. Other transforming robots, knowing her track record, might hesitate to go into battle at her side, let alone travel on her.

-via Super Punch

YouTuber Everything Is Hacked is a computer programmer with interests in writing code under difficult circumstances and making working from home more practical. In the past, he created an interface for controlling a computer using facial movements and having Zoom put virtual pants on him for those times when he's forgotten to wear them.

Now he's radically departing from that sedentary lifestyle for energetic, full-body workouts. He's adapted flag semaphore into a computer interface that will let him type, program, and even control video games with body movements.

This video is a special treat and not just because Everything Is Hacked is smart and innovative technically. It's genuinely funny throughout as he tries to spell out the words for songs as he plays them.

-via Laughing Squid

John Venn (1834-1923) accomplished much during his life. He began as an Anglican priest, although his study of logic, mathematics, and philosophy eventually led him to shed the clerical collar. He taught at Cambridge and eventually became president of one of its constituent colleges. Venn also tinkered with machines and invented a cricket ball bowling machine that was better than top human bowlers.

But Venn is most famous for one of the diagrams that he developed to show partially overlapping sets of values. That design is the basis for a memorial window in his honor at Gonville and Caius College.

His birthplace in Hull is also marked with an Alternative Heritage marker inspired by Venn's diagram.

-via Richard Coles | Photos: Schutz and Dithy, respectively

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— 0xDesigner (@0xDesigner) April 2, 2023

The subreddit /r/ProgrammerHumor shares the joys, frustrations, and irreverent jokes from the world of computer programming. In 2017, the members held an informal contest to develop the worst possible volume control from the perspective of user experience (UX). These include selections that are necessarily random, difficult to manipulate, or deceptively labeled.

Twitter user 0xDesigner rounded up the best in a thread. Many of them include uses of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", which should, of course, always be played on full blast. That's hard to do when the slider bounces around the higher you raise the volume.