And not month by month, either. He just bought the whole damn magazine.

Oh well.

Nevermind. I should know better than to trust Boing Boing.

In the never-ending effort to make buying a lottery ticket new and fun, the N.C. Education Lottery has come up with this: Tickets that smell like barbecue when you scratch them.

Lottery officials will unveil their new BBQ Bucks scratch-off tickets Tuesday at Clyde Cooper’s Barbecue in downtown Raleigh and at Queen City Q in Charlotte. The $2 scratch-and-sniff tickets will bring a chance to win up to $25,000 and to enter a secondary drawing for one of 10 prizes of 100 pounds of pork and a Big Green Egg to grill it on.

Never been to Queen City Q, but Clyde Cooper's BBQ is great! It was the best part of working in downtown Raleigh. I don't buy scratch-offs.

One morning, while working on a project, I Googled “python lambda function list comprehension.” The familiar blue links appeared, and I started to look for the most relevant one.

But then something unusual happened.

The search results split and folded back to reveal a box that said “You’re speaking our language. Up for a challenge?”

What happened?

Three months after the mysterious invitation appeared, I started at Google.

Browsing the web on a mobile device is complete suck. I can't remember the last time I was able to use a mobile browser without having it crash or hang or spend an eternity loading ads.

Also, I find that scrolling up and down on a touch screen that's constantly being redrawn and re-flowed as new ads and images are inserted is nearly impossible to do without accidentally hitting an ad link. I assume that's 100% deliberate.

I'm to the point where I refuse to follow links out of the Facebook app. If it looks interesting maybe I'll remember to check it next time I'm at a desktop. Otherwise, no.

Stocks took a stomach-turning dive on Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 1,000 points in a matter of seconds.

Sorry everybody, my bad. Without thinking, I lowered my 401K contribution by 3%. I didn't take the time to consider the effect my actions would have on the global stock market.

I'll put it back next month! Promise!

In a little-noticed filing before an Oregon federal judge, the US Justice Department and the FBI conceded that stopping US and other citizens from travelling on airplanes is a matter of “predictive assessments about potential threats”, the government asserted in May.

“By its very nature, identifying individuals who ‘may be a threat to civil aviation or national security’ is a predictive judgment intended to prevent future acts of terrorism in an uncertain context,” Justice Department officials Benjamin C Mizer and Anthony J Coppolino told the court on 28 May.

“Judgments concerning such potential threats to aviation and national security call upon the unique prerogatives of the Executive in assessing such threats.”

It is believed to be the government’s most direct acknowledgement to date that people are not allowed to fly because of what the government believes they might do and not what they have already done.

The shrine that was attacked in Bangkok is directly in front of the Bangkok Grand Hyatt hotel. When we were in Thailand last fall, two of our party of six stayed there.

In other words... I've been to that spot. What a strange feeling. I have no doubt that it's much better to have my 'strange feeling' than to have whatever the people directly affected by that explosion are going through, however.

NBC News

Attention: there is no tilde in "habanero" So don't pronounce it "ha-ban-yerro". That is a hyperforeignism.

The pepper's name means "Of Havana" (v and b being interchangeable here), and there is no tilde in "Havana".

Ha-ban-erro.

Wiki

It was the best of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half of the first half was the best of the best way home from work ...

 
I'm at a time when you are so much for a long way in hell of the first place I have no clue who I was the only way you want a relationship is not an easy to play the piano is not an easy to play the piano is not the best ...

 
The best thing to say it was the first half of the first half was the best thing to say it is a good time with the first half of the day I have a great way of life and the best of luck with the first half of the first half and the best thing ...

 
I'm at a time when you are not going anywhere near me I was a little too hard and fast food place for me I was a little too hard and fast food place for me I have no clue who I want you in my room for a long way in hell of the best way for ....

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Turn on the autocomplete bar on your iPhone, pick a spot and start pushing until you've seen enough of "the best". 

Let's listen to Robert Fripp (with Daryl Hall on vocals, Phil Collins on Drums and Tony Levin on bass) !

You're welcome.

This is from Fripp's 1979 album, "Exposure". In 1981, this song would be reworked into King Crimson's "Matte Kudasai".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX6R9xtCnVE