Wesley Evans has been an inmate at the jail of Jasper County, Texas after being arrested for auto theft, arson, and aggravated robbery. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment for a hand injury. While there, Evans escaped.
When police caught up with him, they found him inside the dishwasher in an apartment in his girlfriend's apartment complex. He may now face additional charges as a result of his escape, but at least he's clean and sparkling fresh now.
It looks like these indentical twin brothers are just looking into a camera. But the app is active and is swapping their faces back and forth. Can you identify the moment when their faces switch? You'll have to look carefully.
At the end of World War I, the Czech and Slovak regions of the Austo-Hungarian Empire formed the state of Czechoslovakia. When the pair split in 1993, the Czech state became known in English as the Czech Republic.
It's a bit awkward. Officially, France is the French Republic, but we just call it France. Couldn't we call the Czech Republic something similarly short? Perhaps. The Czech government is considering adopting "Czechia" as its official short form name. The Washington Post reports:
Finding a short-form name for the Czech Republic had proved difficult, however. In the Czech Republic itself, the short name “Cesko” is used. That name is said to date to the 18th century, although it came to official use only in the 20th century. Even today, it isn’t fully accepted: According to the Economist, former Czech president Vaclav Havel once said that the word made his “flesh creep.” Some suggested that the name was a reminder of the country’s split from Slovakia, though others said it just sounds nasty: The word is “short and harsh sounding,” one Czech cartographer told Radio Prague in 2004. […]
In recent years, a movement to finally confirm Czechia as the official short name has gathered pace. President Milos Zeman became a powerful ally of the new short name when he applauded its use during a 2013 state visit to Israel. “I use Czechia because it sounds nicer and it’s shorter than the cold Czech Republic,” Zeman told Shimon Peres, then the president of Israel.
For decades, American actor David Hasselhoff has been a huge celebrity in Germany, mostly for his singing. So it's proper that the people of Berlin have built a shrine in his honor. Go to the basement of the Circus Hostel in the Mitte neighborhood and you'll find a carefully curated arrangement of Hasselhoff relics, including a piece of the Berlin Wall that he personally broke off and the piano keyboard scarf that he wore at the time.
Ericka Berlin of Mental Floss visited the museum. She writes:
According to the staff, it’s most often found when visitors at the upstairs café or basement bar stumble upon it on their way to the restroom. "People often come into the bar giggling after having discovered it," bartender and museum curator Ally Chaplin tells mental_floss. "We also have a few Hoff masks left over from one of our parties displayed in the bar, which encourages people to ask about him, and then we can send them to look at the museum if they haven't already found it."
Originally devised as a gimmicky shrine around eight years ago, the bar’s patrons embraced the dark, framed portrait of the actor and would occasionally graffiti their love for him around the bar. When the hostel renovated in 2014 and installed its own microbrewery in the spot the shrine had stood, one of the hostel’s co-owners suggested expanding their Hoff lore with a museum in an unused hallway on the opposite side of the basement. Chaplin took on the project, spending months scouring eBay and Amazon for memorabilia. "The Knight Rider car was the hardest item to secure," she says. "They come up periodically on eBay auctions, but they get quite expensive."
How tall and short has Batman been? The shortest is, surprisingly, not Michael Keaton from the 1989 movie. It was LEGO Batman--if he counts. This chart and article by The Economist describes how directors have compensated for the actors' varying heights and weights:
Mr Keaton was the most diminutive of the actors to play Batman, weighing just 159 lbs and reaching only 5”10. To compensate, the slight superhero was shot in narrow doorways (giving the illusion of breadth) or near to the camera, and other characters constantly referred to a “six-foot bat”. George Clooney was also a little short for the role, but appeared bulky and imposing in the ill-fated “Batman and Robin” (1997). He never shared screen-time with the “super soldier” Bane, and only fought the hilarious Mr Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) hand-to-hand at the film’s climax.
Later Batmen did not require such choreography. Val Kilmer’s sturdy build spoke for itself, with some help from the script: Nicole Kidman, his love interest, lasciviously implored us to gaze at his “eyes, [his] lips, [his] body”. Mr Bale trained topless in “Batman Begins” (2005) and “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012). Not to be outdone, Mr Affleck stars in a semi-nude and perspiration-filled training montage featuring tyres and chains.
The DC Animated Universe films are not included in this chart. But I vaguely recall Batman being mentioned as 6'4" in one of them.
What if the rose doesn't survive? It's no good to me dead.
Don't worry, Belleba Fett, you'll get anything that you're hunting without fail. Cosplayer Elizabeth Rage, who has made several Belle costumes, including a Slave Leia and a Jedi Belle, presents this Beauty and the Beast/Star Wars mashup.
Enter the Dojo is a YouTube series that parodies self-defense instructional videos. Matthew Page plays Master Ken, a tough guy who has devoted his life to the creation and refinement of his own martial art, Amri-Do-Te. In these videos, Master Ken shows you how to protect yourself in practical ways on the street.
Master Ken's demonstration partner is Todd, played by Joseph Conway. Todd's purpose is to be the opponent who falls under Master Ken's masterful methods, most of which involve brutal groin kicks, stomps, and pulls.
In this video, Master Ken shows you how to defend yourself against someone performing the Heimlich maneuver on you. In other videos in his YouTube channel, Master Ken shows you how to defend yourself against a selfie, how to condition your face to take punishment, and how to protect yourself with an opponent armed with bananas.
As The Awesomer puts it, "Now passengers can get both seasick and carsick at the same time."
The Norwegian Cruise Line is pulling out all the stops in an effort to build the ultimate amusement park afloat. The Norwegian Joy, which is designed with the China market in mind, contains a large go kart track. Fox 7 Austin quotes Simon Murray, a planning director for the company:
"We thought the racetrack would be cool. It’s obviously highly innovative in addition to that it’s something that’s very much about thrills," he said. "It's something a lot of people can do. So, we wanted something that was really going to gather a lot of attention to the vessel.” […]
There will be a total of 20 electric go-carts customized to the onboard track with 10 racing at any given time.
"The reason that [there are] 10 and 10 is we have the ability to roll people in and out fast and it gives the chance for batteries to charge when needed,” Murray said. Those batteries will not be power lightweights either. In fact, they will feature a turbo boost that can be programmed to allow a racer to overtake a car once or twice per lap.
Eyal Rosenthal, an Israeli artist, developed 6 lamp designs that let you geek out and remain discreetly classy at the time. They're all inspired by iconic forms from Star Wars, including BB-8, Boba Fett, and Darth Maul.
There's only one problem: they're just an April Fools gag. He imported Swedish letters to create fake, IKEA-looking catalog pages. But Disney should manufacture these lamps anyway.
Baseball is a game that consists of people standing on a field and, on rare occasions, throwing, hitting, or catching a ball. But mostly it's standing around. According to longtime baseball fan Tom Pettigrew, the typical game lasts about 2 to 3 hours. It only feels longer.
Twitter user Brad Gagnon was at a Toronto Blue Jays game. During the second inning, he spotted a woman in front of him seaching online to find out how much longer she would have to endure this purgatory.
My proposal: encourage players to move expeditiously by releasing hungry lions onto the field after an hour.
Mark Blank-Settle of the BBC found that two of his toddler's train track pieces were enchanted. They're differently sized . . . until placed on top of each other!
In Jastrow’s words: “In judging areas, we cannot avoid taking into account the lengths of the lines by which the areas are limited, a contrast in the lengths of these is carried over to the comparison of the areas.”
Essentially, we’re measuring the outer arc of the bottom piece against the inner arc of the top piece. In our minds, we make a judgement on the size by simply comparing the inner arc length to the outer arc length. However the outer arc (on both pieces) will always be longer than the inner. If the tracks are moved to a more “appropriate” place, either on top of each other or not aligned at their edges, you won’t inadvertently make comparisons between the inner and outer arcs and you’ll realize they’re actually the same size.
How good do you look in a mirror? Well, you can always check for yourself. But Naked, a new 3d fitness tracker, goes much, much further. It does a complete scan of your body to create a 3d model of what you look like. It tracks precisely how your body is changing under your fitness regimen.
Physically, Naked looks like a full length mirror. It's programmed to give you constructive feedback about your measurements, body fat, and weight. It won't just tell you that you're flabby. It'll tell you where you're flabby so that you can be more self-conscious about it.
Imgur member carefreedude has a friend who recently took sleeping pills for the first time. Before they put him to sleep, they lowered his inhibitions. He got online and bought a live yak.
That's a $3,075.99 accidental purchase. But when he recovered and realized his mistake, he managed to cancel it. Distractify has an update:
I have an update on the Yak.
He managed to stop the payment at the credit card company. He also posted this on Facebook:
Oh I’m sure you would’ve all liked for me to just let them deliver it, but a) My apartment complex would boot my ass on to the street. The only thing worse than being homeless is being a homeless yak owner. b) My beagle Lucy would lose her motherf*cking mind. c) I’m an astrophysicist, not Baron Moneybags Von Richf*ck so I can’t just spend $3,000 on a yak to amuse the Internet.
[...] lore has it that hippos kill more people each year than lions, elephants, leopards, buffaloes and rhinos combined.
Hippopotami can and have swallowed people whole. But that does not deter this worker at the Tennoji Zoo in Osaka from cleaning a hippo's mouth and teeth with his hands and a brush.
The Spanish bed manufacturer Durmet explains that "If your partner isn’t faithful, then at least your mattress will be."
The Smarttress has built-in sensors to detect vigorous rhythmic motions--particular motions verified by research. It then sends an alert to the owner through an app. The Telegraph explains:
According to one of the engineers who developed the so-called Lover Detection System, when the ultrasonic sensors inside the mattress detect rhythmic movements, the communication system sends information to a server.
“If it detects suspicious activity regarding time of use, frequency, intensity or speed, it sends a notification to the phone terminal with which it is linked," said Iván Miranda.
Durmet say the technology is so advanced that the jealous app user will be able to see in real time what parts of the bed are seeing the most activity, giving him or her a mental picture of exactly what their partner is up to.
