A manager at the Arbys in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, spat in a customers food, say police, an act that allegedly resulted in the victim contracting oral herpes. The Smoking Gun reports that Amanda Hendricks, 38, was charged with adulterating food, assault and battery. — Read the rest

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Kodak's Charmera, the keychain-sized digital camera that became a minor cultural phenomenon last year, is back with a new look. Reto, the company that makes the camera and licenses the Kodak name, has launched the Charmera Millennium Edition, which trades the original's '80s styling for a Y2k take on tech: think shiny metallics, fussy gradients, and early pixel nostalgia. — Read the rest

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Joseph McGrail-Bateup, a 58-year-old air conditioner cleaner and honorary town crier from Canberra, Australia, has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's loudest person. McGrail-Bateup yelled the word "now" at 122.4 decibels, beating the previous mark of 121.7 dB set by Northern Ireland schoolteacher Annalisa Flanagan in 1994, who shouted "quiet." — Read the rest

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Professional cycling spent decades looking for cheating in blood, urine, and hotel mini-fridges. Then came the suspicion that the real juice was hiding in the bike.

The video follows the story from early viral accusations against Tour riders to the day scanners found a motor hidden inside a seat tube. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for $29.97 (reg. $219.99) during Deal Days — no subscription required.

The easiest way to lower a software budget isn't finding a cheaper subscription. It's eliminating one altogether. That's what this deal on the Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows subscription brings: one payment, then years of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and more without renewal notices. — Read the rest

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Grandpa Pudding Brains tried to tell a story about a New York police officer "please, sir"ing him and somehow ended up admiring the man's muscles as if he had wandered into a weird Conan movie.

If there were muscles, the muscles were all over the place, and so was the story. — Read the rest

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Irish artist Niall de Buitléar's eight-minute found-footage piece Duplicate Content splices video art from the mid-1960s through mid-1970s together with recent social-media clips — most of them, in his words, "people alone in a room filming themselves performing for the camera." — Read the rest

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This structure called Expo Hall, or "Shining Hat", creates a stunning optical illusion in the sky. The top of the structure makes it look like a giant portal has opened in the atmosphere. Its defining feature is a vast, reflective golden underside that makes the roof appear to dissolve into the sky from certain viewpoints. — Read the rest

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In this video, a cat makes it clear that there is no way in hell it will share a home with the owner's cat-slippers. The owner walks around the corner and stands in front of their cat, wearing fuzzy slippers that resembled the feline, who immediately doesn't approve. — Read the rest

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This video shows a tame crow perched on a person's lap in a workshop, getting its feathers brushed. When the person puts the brush down, the crow calmly demands more by hopping onto the table, taking the small wire brush in its beak, and handing it back to the person. — Read the rest

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The Playdate's hand crank was built for games, but it keeps luring developers to go weird. Ancient Loops, a free download from the two-person French team EVB Studio, isn't a game — it has "no levels, no chapters, no fail state, and no unlockable progression." — Read the rest

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The creator, owner, and driver of the 23-foot-long Big Banana Car, Steve Braithwaite, gets to meet a lot of curious cops.

"I would see a police car going the other way and get my documents ready," Braithwaite told Cowboy State Daily from Seattle on Thursday morning.

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Stanley Kubrick is one of those directors: One with enough vision to change the course of any film genre he touches but, enough brains to know that art has to be popular—enjoyable to the average movie going schmoe—in order to make bank. — Read the rest

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The campaign against the creative class has rustled up a surprising new foot soldier: A24 Films. It seems that the production house, known for artsy-fartsy (God, how I love them) horror and suspense flicks, has accepted a $75 million dollar investment from Google to partner up on the creation of new film making tools. — Read the rest

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The Oregon Symphony performed Jaws live with the movie, and one bassist understood the assignment so completely that he played the entire thing dressed as a shark.

A concertgoer praised the symphony's movie series after seeing Jaws in Concert in Portland, but gave special credit to the musician who wore the shark costume through the whole film while playing bass. — Read the rest

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Don't you just love all the innovations that the advent of AI has allowed for? There's mass disinformation, the price of consumer computing going through the roof, poisoning groundwater for entire communities, but, uh… at least it's making some people's jobs easier! — Read the rest

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A while ago, fans of Better Call Saul (it's me, I'm fans) were surprised by a new piece of official content dropped out nowhere on an unassuming YouTube channel. Bob Odenkirk was back in full force as criminal lawyer Saul Goodman, salmon-colored suit and all, to tell you about your rights in what we all assumed was a fun one-off video to celebrate America's 250th. — Read the rest

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Loath as I am to admit it, I think we may all have seen this coming after Valve raised the price of their Steam Deck. Naturally, this raised questions about how much Valve's flagship Steam Machine "living room PC" would cost — questions that have now unfortunately been answered. — Read the rest

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Karoline Leavitt returned to Fox News and immediately tried to convince America that the Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm is a campaign promise kept.

On FOX, Leavitt called the algae-costumed protesters "deranged leftists" and said, "Only the Democrats could hate beautifying our nation's capital and making it a symbol of pride again, but this is what the American people elected President Trump to do." — Read the rest

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REI, the company that tells people to "Opt Outside," apparently opted out of looking at the AI bicycle before posting it.

PetaPixel reports that REI shared an Instagram ad for a Van Rysel bike using an AI-generated image that immediately failed the "has anyone here ever seen a bicycle?" — Read the rest

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Tucker Carlson says he is done supporting the Republican Party, which is awkward because few living Americans have spent more time helping make it what it is.

Longtime conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said on a podcast that "there's no chance I would support the Republican Party" ahead of the November midterm elections, dismissing the political affiliation he's defended as a pundit for decades, including as one of Fox News Channel's most popular hosts.

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A very connected 79-year-old chonker reportedly got access to Eli Lilly's experimental obesity drug retatrutide, and the White House will not directly say whether that man is McDonald's slurping Grandpa Pudding Brains.

Raw Story summarizes STAT's report that Lilly and the FDA allowed one unidentified 79-year-old patient to receive retatrutide through compassionate use, also known as expanded access. — Read the rest

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People waited in line outside Arizona's first Buc-ee's on Sunday, because America has reached the part of the simulation where a truck stop gets a rope line.

The new Buc-ee's opened June 22 in Goodyear, just west of Phoenix, and it is not some humble roadside snack closet. — Read the rest

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I saw a coyote drinking matcha at Gjusta. His man bun was perfect.

Los Angeles' offbeat Venice has already adapted to skaters, tourists, tech money, RV fights, influencers, and the occasional guy explaining crypto near the beach. Now the canals have coyotes. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: DashResume analyzes resumes against job descriptions, identifies keyword gaps, and helps create ATS-friendly applications — all for $39.99 (reg. $139).

You could be the perfect candidate for a job and still get rejected by a robot before a human ever sees your resume. — Read the rest

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The Colossi of Memnon are "two large stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III" that have stood on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor since about 1350 BC. According to Wikipedia, each rises about 18 meters and weighs "an estimated 720 tons." — Read the rest

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Every year around the end of the Buddhist Lent, crowds gather along the Mekong River to watch the Naga fireballs — glowing balls that, according to Wikipedia, "are alleged to naturally rise from the water high into the air." They are said to be "reddish" and to "range in size from smaller sparkles up to the size of basketballs," and "the number of fireballs reported varies between tens and thousands per night." — Read the rest

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The Man in the Iron Mask was "an unidentified prisoner of state during the reign of Louis XIV of France." According to Wikipedia, he was arrested in 1669 under the name "Eustache Dauger" and "held for 34 years in the custody of Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars in four successive French prisons, including the Bastille." — Read the rest

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The Anti-PowerPoint Party is a real Swiss political party "dedicated to decreasing professional use of Microsoft PowerPoint and other forms of presentation software." According to Wikipedia, the party claims presentation software "causes national-economic damage amounting to 2.1 billion CHF" a year and lowers the quality of a presentation in "95% of the cases." — Read the rest

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TL;DR Grab a lifetime subscription to Transfr Pro file transfer for a one-time payment of $99.99 (reg. $499). 

You know the routine. You're trying to send a 4GB video, a folder of RAW photos, or a Photoshop file that somehow ballooned past 2GB. — Read the rest

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