Despite a 49ers offseason that featured chaos, abrupt retirements, and the installation of a retired barstool as head coach, there is at least one nice story on the team: Jarryd Hayne. The 27-year-old former rugby league player played well enough in the preseason to merit serious consideration for a spot on the 53-man roster. The exclamation point on his campaign will be what he did to Chargers cornerback Lowell Rose.
This happy dog doesn't mind wearing a zebra mask, but its feline friend dislikes it so much that her head has become astonishingly flat.
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Apart from the Running of the Bulls in San Fermin, Spaniards enjoy some other wild festivals from time to time. One of them is called “La Tomatina.” Once a year, locals in the small village of Buñol engage in a massive battle with 150 tons of tomatoes as their only weapon of choice. Doesn’t seem like the best day to drive by and say hello in a Google Street View car.
Leonie Müller's undergrad thesis will include an analysis of her months living on Germany's high-speed trains, washing her hair in the bathroom sinks and writing her papers at 100+ km/h.
Her old apartment cost about $450/month and came with a jerky, feuding landlord; her train-pass costs $380 a month and lets her travel regularly to visit her boyfriend, who lives across the country. She thanks her noise-cancelling headphones for making it all possible.
The 23-year-old's unusual housing choice has gained her media attention in Germany and appeared on national news sites such as Spiegel Online. "I read, I write, I look out of the window and I meet nice people all the time. There's always something to do on trains," Müller told German TV station SWR in an interview. Since risking the move, Müller's life fits into a small backpack in which she carries clothes, her tablet computer, college documents and a sanitary bag.
How one German millennial chose to live on trains rather than pay rent [Rick Noack/Washington Post]
Reddit user noveltysin put her Fitbit on after 20 minutes of foreplay to record her heart rate during a 8 minutes 59 seconds intercourse session. She added notes to the graph indicating when she changed positions, when her knees gave out, and the time of her orgasm and "aftershock."
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In Josh Millard's excellent "game" Ennuigi, you are invited to "spend some time with a depressed, laconic Luigi as he chain smokes and wanders through a crumbling Mushroom Kingdom, ruminating on ontology, ethics, family, identity, and the mistakes he and his brother have made."
Josh writes about Ennuigi 1.0:
This is a shot at a collection of ideas I had a few years ago, about looking critically at the universe of Super Mario Bros. in light of the total lack of explicit narrative in the original game in particular. Who are these strange men? What motivates them? By what right do they wreak the havoc they do on this strange place? What do they feel about where they are and what they're doing?
And so, this is one lens through which to look at all that, with Luigi, the second brother, the also-ran, as a complicit onlooker, wandering now through some fractured, rotting liminal place in this strange world, reflecting on it all in scattered fragments.
Your cat will pretend to love you if you give her a frozen water balloon on a hot day.
Drop an antacid into water here on Earth and you’ve got yourself a glass of fizzy water. Do the same thing up on the space station, and you’ve just made yourself a disco ball.
Bol Bol, the late Manute Bol’s large pre-adult son, is soundly embarrassing his opponents, but regardless of whether or not that impresses you, this block on poor No. 54 should. Bol Bol didn’t just steal the ball. He took that poor kid’s soul with it.
When Daniel Korell scanned a QR code on a bottle of Heinz Ketchup, he got more than he bargained for. Rather than bring up the competition page he was expecting to see, it instead linked to a German porn site called Fundorado. Oops.
This is, apparently, David Achter de Molen, the lead singer of a band called John Coffey, at something called Pinkpop Festival 2015, in Holland, catching a thrown cup of beer while walking across the crowd.
Violets, touch me nots, and squirting cucumbers employ an impressive ballistic seed dispersal mechanism. (Smithsonian)
The Notorious B.I.G. in a pink suit and black bluchers on the day he graduated from kindergarten.
Switch-hitters are a dime a dozen in the MLB, but when it comes to switch-pitching, it’s a different story. For the first time in 20 years, an ambidextrous hurler will take the mound, as 29-year old right/left-handed reliever Pat Venditte was called up by the Oakland Athletics this morning.
Gregarious tricep Rob Gronkowski did an interview with DuJour—we have no idea what it is, but it claims to be “Where Luxury Lives”—and while the written profile doesn’t cover much new ground outside of Gronk’s drinking preferences, which we’ll get to later, the video accompanying the article is quite ridiculous.
Look, it doesn’t matter how good Giancarlo Stanton is at hitting home runs . No one’s allowed to eat a Kit Kat like that. That chocolate bar was made to be broken into columns, and instead, Stanton took a big bite out of it (and common decency).
On Thursday, News Limited announced that it would be ceasing publication of mX, a free Australian tabloid that circulated in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. On its last day of publication, mX decided to die historic on a fury road.
Kyle from Bumperactive writes, "NARAL Pro-Choice Texas has a new tee supporting reproductive rights in the Lone Star State: "Texas, We Need To Talk About The Elephant In The Womb" -- a sly dig at the sharply partisan politics that drive the anti-choice movement."
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There’s a moment in the Truman Show, when Jim Carrey tries to travel to Fiji (and escape his creep-o TV show island) and this poster pops up at a travel agency. It’s funny because lightning strikes are such rare occurrences it couldn’t happen that often. Surely, not often enough to necessitate a poster.
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When asked about his thoughts on Ballghazi earlier today, Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, a bottle of Muscle Milk come to life, had no comment except to flex his muscles. Given a few more hours to compose his thoughts, Gronk released a video chastising the media for focusing on Deflategate instead of ever asking him about the charity work that he does. In case you were worried, however, Gronk ends the video about how you’d expect.
It's a lot of fun to watch and hear these people making fun of phone scammers pretending to be from the IRS or Microsoft tech support.
