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Website tracks protein meal deals for 171 cities in U.S. and Canada
Lowtein is a simple website that geolocates you and tells you about the cheapest proteins available in your location.
 • Rob Beschizza
Microsoft may spin off struggling XBox division
The Information reports that Microsoft is considering several ways to set loose its XBox gaming division, including spinning it out as a separate…
 • Rob Beschizza
College president suggests graduates “put a quick end” to themselves in commencement speech
The president of Taipei’s Shih Hsin University told graduates to end their own lives if they couldn’t handle the workforce, remarks that led to…
 • Rob Beschizza
Lake Powell is approaching the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops making power
Dead pool gets the scary name, but Power Pool is where the bill comes due.
 • Jason Weisberger
Grandpa Pudding Brains set to invade Washington, D.C.
Grandpa Pudding Brains has found another election he may not respect: a Democratic mayoral primary in Washington, D.C., may serve as a reason to impose…
 • Jason Weisberger
Watch the live Kennedy Center stream of Trump’s name coming down (video)
Reversing the egocentric high watermark of the MAGA Clown Reich, a newly re-annoited The John F.
 • Jason Weisberger
The FBI’s protest-harassment fit has sponsors
In a Threads post, Craig Brittain, a former Arizona Senate candidate, says an FBI agent confronted him while he was protesting ICE at Delaney Hall in…
 • Jason Weisberger
Mel Fisher’s treasure hunters find another chunk of Atocha silver
At this point, the Atocha is less a wreck than a very damp annuity.
 • Jason Weisberger
Minneapolis has been hearing unexplained booms for decades and nobody can figure out why
Residents of the Longfellow neighborhood in Minneapolis have been reporting loud, unexplained explosions for several decades.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A 1977 trawler hauled up a carcass that Japan took for a sea monster
In April 1977 the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, pulled up a decomposing carcass about 10 meters long.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Steam is killing physical gift cards to cut off scammers
Here’s a question: when was the last time you went out to the store and got yourself a physical gift card for online games retailer Steam?
 • Grant St. Clair
Boing Boing, June 11, 2026
Boulders, blimps, and a caterpillar that stings
 • Boing Boing
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