This Pokemon Go thing sounds like something the South Park guys made up so they could make fun of people who play video games and people who think corporations rule our lives.

Putting wine bottles in paper bags will not prevent them from breaking in your car's trunk, should you take a corner too fast.

Also: cleaning red wine out of a car is nearly impossible once it finds the gaps and crevices in the sheet metal.

Today I'm closing my business. It's been making software for 23 years and has officially been a corporation for 18 (IIRC). But, the cost of simply filing the periodic paperwork to keep on the good side of the State finally exceeded what sales brought in. So, that's that.

Alas.

On a bright note:
When I decided to close it, about a month ago, I did my first ever mass-email to all the customers of one of my products. This product was a toolkit used by other programmers to do image processing tasks (read a JPG, resize it, rotate it, etc.); we made the source code for the toolkit available for purchase as well because that allows programmers to find and fix any problems they might encounter, which provides insurance against things like my biz going out of biz. I told them, in the email, that the biz was closing and that they had until today to purchase the source code. In the first week after that, there were more sales than the past two years combined. Even today, people are doing source code purchases.

Hate to say it, but unsolicited email works.

Here's what your protest vote gets ya, snowflake:

"One voter told the BBC that he didn't think his vote to leave the EU would matter.

I'm a bit shocked to be honest," the voter, identified as Adam from Manchester, England, told the broadcaster. "I'm shocked about both. I'm shocked that we actually voted to leave. I didn't think that was going to happen. My vote, I didn't think, was going to matter too much because I thought we were just going to remain."

He also didn't expect Cameron to resign: "The David Cameron resignation has blown me away to be honest. I think it's been- the period of uncertainty that we're going to have for the next couple of months, I think that's just been magnified now. So, yeah, quite worried."

La di da. Pissin away me vote.

(LGM's take.)

Local news site tells amazing story of man redeeming a voucher.

Customers that purchased a ticket through Ticketmaster between late 1999 and early 2013 could be eligible for free tickets to a number of events.

An email sent to eligible Ticketmaster customers includes instructions on how to get vouchers for free tickets to selected events as well as discounts on Ticketmaster purchases. Those who bought a ticket through the company between Oct. 21, 1999, and Feb. 27, 2013, are eligible. The vouchers expire in four years.

The clock is ticking!

Frank Manginaro, of Chatham County, is one of about 57 million people who recently received a voucher.

Meet our lonely hero, Frank.

He said he was thrilled until the site started giving him an error message when he attempted to use the voucher code.

"All of a sudden they are giving me excuses saying it doesn't work, you can't buy tickets, try again later," he said. "I was upset about it, and so were my friends because they couldn't even get through."

Technical difficulties have beset our brave hero! What will he do?

After trying for two days, Manginaro tried again and found a way to get tickets. He said he ignored the voucher link on the Ticketmaster website and went straight to the band's page.

"I just skipped over it and went straight to the Counting Crows and ordered it through there. It went through with no problem," he said.

Cunning has saved the day! The enemy is defeated!

We can thank WRAL.com for this thrilling story of triumph over adversity.

I am sick and tired of watching folks like Boris Johnson, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, and others appeal to the worst racial instincts of our species, only to be shushed by folks telling me that it's not really racism driving their popularity. It's economic angst. It's regular folks tired of being spurned by out-of-touch elites. It's a natural anxiety over rapid cultural change.

Maybe it's all those things. But at its core, it's the last stand of old people who have been frightened to death by cynical right-wing media empires and the demagogues who enable them—all of whom have based their appeals on racism as overt as anything we've seen in decades. It's loathsome beyond belief, and not something I thought I'd ever see in my lifetime. But that's where we are

Brexit Wins

Pad Kee Mao is a versatile dish. It can be made with noodles, spaghetti, without noodles and served on rice, with seafood… you name it. Essentially you can make anything ‘kee mao’ by including a lot of chilies, fresh peppercorns & holy basil. In Thai, ‘pad’ means to stir-fry, and ‘kee mao’ means someone who likes to drink too much. ‘Kee’ literally means ‘shit’, and adding ‘kee’ in front of any verb means it’s a bad habit. ‘Mao’ means drunk. So, a ‘Kee Mao’ (shit drunk) is someone who has a bad habit of drinking! What this has to do with this dish, I’m not 100% sure. I’ve heard that this is a common drinking food, and also that it’s a good cure for a hangover. Your guess is as good as mine.

Authentic Thai recipes from Thailand

No matter what the cuisine, I'm all about the wide noodle: pad kee mao, chow fun, pappardelle, big ol egg noodles and gravy, etc.. Wide and flat and rubbery and chewy - that's my kinda noodle.

Republican Sen. John McCain said Thursday that President Barack Obama is "directly responsible" for the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida

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If states can drug test low-income residents seeking welfare assistance, why can’t they do the same for members of the one percent asking for hefty federal tax deductions?

So goes the thinking of Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), who spoke to the Guardian on Wednesday about her new Top 1% Accountability Act. The bill would force taxpayers reporting itemized deductions of over $150,000 to either submit a clear drug test to the IRS or accept the much lower standard deduction when filing their tax returns.

A Kenyan court ruled Thursday that law enforcement can force men accused of homosexuality to undergo anal exams

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