The Biggest Losers In Oscar History

The Biggest Losers In Oscar History And Other Things You Didn't Know, FBI And Secret Service Phone Calls Intercepted By Google Maps Exploit, Just A Terrifying Electrical Anomaly In Norway, The Truth About How Much Happy Couples Should Have Sex, Normcore: The Year's Blandest Fashion Trend The Daily Digg Friday, February 28, 2014 HITCHCOCK WAS A SORE WINNER The Biggest Losers In Oscar History And Other Things You Didn't Know digg.com You know that Meryl Streep is the queen of the Oscars, but do you know which fictional character has earned the most nominations? NOW ANYONE CAN BE THE NSA FBI And Secret Service Phone Calls Intercepted By Google Maps Exploit gizmodo.com When Bryan Seely showed me his Google Maps exploits, he showed me more than just dick jokes and fake businesses. Using these tricks, he was also able to set up a system that could surreptitiously record phone calls to the FBI and Secret Service. THERE'S NORWAY WE'RE GOING NEAR THAT Just A Terrifying Electrical Anomaly In Norway digg.com This is apparently what happens when power lines go down on a Norwegian mountain. TAKE TWO AND SEE US IN THE MORNING The Truth About How Much Happy Couples Should Have Sex jezebel.com Want to be a happy couple? Be like every other happy couple. WHAT MOST PEOPLE CALL 'WEARING CLOTHES' Normcore: The Year's Blandest Fashion Trend dailydot.com We've come full circle: Boring is the new edgy. Edgy is the new boring. Orange may or may not still be the new black. Read more on Digg.com → UKRAINE AND VENEZUELA, YOU'VE GOT COMPANY A demonstrator holds up pictures of Haiti's former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide during rally to mark the tenth anniversary of his second ouster in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The protesters denounced what they described as widespread corruption in the government of President Michel Martelly and even called for his resignation. Credit: Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

You Should Always Get The Bigger Pizza

Buying A Gun On Facebook Takes 15 Minutes, What's Behind The Violence In Venezuela, 74,476 Reasons You Should Always Get The Bigger Pizza, Today's Apps Are Turning Us Into Sociopaths, 15 Inaccuracies Found In Common Science Illustrations The Daily Digg Thursday, February 27, 2014 15 MINUTES!!! Buying A Gun On Facebook Takes 15 Minutes venturebeat.com Fifteen minutes. That's all it takes for children, felons, and people without ID to buy illegal weapons on Facebook pages dedicated to the sale and celebration of guns. DIGG EXPLAINS What's Behind The Violence In Venezuela digg.com The situation in Venezuela might be somewhat of a head-scratcher for the uninitiated. This primer should bring you up to date on the essential moving parts of the political and social earthquake rocking the country with the largest oil reserves in the Western hemisphere. AS IF YOU NEEDED MORE THAN ONE 74,476 Reasons You Should Always Get The Bigger Pizza npr.org National hero Quoctrung Bui went big on the pizza value question. WE ARE NO LONGER HUMAN Today's Apps Are Turning Us Into Sociopaths wired.com We're observing the emergence of tech that doesn't just augment our intellect and lives — but is now beginning to automate and outsource our humanity. YOU LIED TO US, SAGAN! 15 Inaccuracies Found In Common Science Illustrations digg.com Guess what? Science is complicated, and a lot of the stuff you learn in school is either simplified or downright wrong. Read more on Digg.com → LIVING IN SMOG A farmer shovels in a field near electric pylons in heavy haze on a severely polluted day in Shijiazhuang, in northern China's Hebei province, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Gladiator School

Every State's Favorite Band, Mapped, Mt. Gox Reportedly Receives Subpoena, Life From A Skateboard's Point Of View, Gladiator School Discovered, The Weird World Of E-Cig Evangelists The Daily Digg Wednesday, February 26, 2014 OF COURSE VERMONT LIKES PHISH Every State's Favorite Band, Mapped musicmachinery.com Delaware really likes... Rush? TROUBLE ON THE MOUNTAIN Mt. Gox Reportedly Receives Subpoena reuters.com Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has allegedly received a subpoena from federal prosecutors in New York. GETTING KICKED AROUND Life From A Skateboard's Point Of View digg.com Just when you thought every possible use for a GoPro had been discovered. HAZING WAS BRUTAL Gladiator School Discovered nationalgeographic.com Archaeologists have mapped an ancient gladiator school, where the famed warriors lived, trained, and fought. VAPE LIFE The Weird World Of E-Cig Evangelists theverge.com The e-cigarette industry has spent vast amounts of money and time making a once-dorky and counterintuitive idea — sucking on a metal device filled with nicotine juice and some of the same chemicals used in smoke machines — look desirable, fun, and edgy. And it appears to be working. Read more on Digg.com → A SHORT GOODBYE An unidentified North Korean woman on a bus weeps as she holds her South Korean relative's hand after the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain in North Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The first reunions of North and South Koreans in more than three years have been held in North Korea. The final group of Koreans to participate in reunions ends Tuesday. Credit: AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Ji-eun Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

When In Doubt, Make A World War II Movie

Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy, Best-Picture Math, Put A Propeller On It: The Golden Age Of Tinkering, How Was The Most Massive Object In The Universe Created?, Can You Solve This? The Daily Digg Tuesday, February 25, 2014 GLENN GREENWALD EXPLAINS Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy firstlook.org One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how Western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It's time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents. WHEN IN DOUBT, MAKE A WORLD WAR II MOVIE Best-Picture Math vanityfair.com Data crunching may not help Oscar-hungry producers or office-pool bettors. Still, the themes, motifs, and plots from 85 years of best-picture-nominated movies do tell a story. MAD PROPS Put A Propeller On It: The Golden Age Of Tinkering theappendix.net Once upon a time, motorcycles, trains, and even UFOs were driven by propellers. Personal flying machines roamed the streets of Paris, and people were afraid that marauding anarchist Zeppelins might destroy their cities. No, it's not a steam punk novel. It was the turn of the Twentieth Century, and the golden age of tinkering. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS How Was The Most Massive Object In The Universe Created? nautil.us The galaxy known prosaically as M87 doesn't look like much. The source of a jet emanating from that galaxy is far from prosaic, however: It's a black hole 6.6 billion times the mass of the Sun. SURPRISE, IT'S NOT THE OBVIOUS ANSWER Can You Solve This? digg.com Can you figure out the rule behind this sequence of three numbers? Read more on Digg.com → BUT DOES SHE HAVE HER SOMETHING BLUE? A Bulgarian Muslim bride Kadrie Avdikova has her face decorated with a special wedding makeup at the end of a two-day wedding ceremony in the Rhodope Mountains village of Ribnovo, 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of capital Sofia, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. The remote mountain village of Ribnovo in southwest Bulgaria has kept its traditional winter marriage ceremony alive despite decades of Communist persecution, followed by poverty that forced many men to seek work abroad. The wedding ritual was resurrected with vigor among the Pomaks - Slavs who converted to Islam under Ottoman rule. The highlight of the ceremony is the painting of the bride's face, where in a private rite, her face is covered in thick, chalky white paint and decorated with colorful sequins. Credit: AP: Valentina Petrova Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

We'll Always Have Billy

I Give Up, And Here's The 'Super Mario'/'Seinfeld' Parody Nobody Expected, How The World's Next Tallest Building Will Be Built, Breaking Down The Five Documentary Shorts Nominated For An Oscar, Whole Foods: America's Temple Of Pseudoscience The Daily Digg Monday, February 24, 2014 WELL WE STILL HAVE BILLY I Give Up vulture.com Alec Baldwin on his personal travails over the last year, including his run-ins with the paparazzi, being called a homophobe, and the problems with our new media culture, where "you are measured by who you are on your worst day." IT'S-A-NOT YOU, IT'S-A-ME, MARIO! And Here's The 'Super Mario'/'Seinfeld' Parody Nobody Expected digg.com Whaaat's the deal with this? No seriously, what's the deal with it? PROBABLY WITH UNDERPAID LABOR How The World's Next Tallest Building Will Be Built gizmodo.com Engineers on the Kingdom Tower, a proposed 3,280 foot tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, are beginning tests to figure out how to pump wet concrete more than half a mile into the sky. EVEN SHORTER VERSIONS Breaking Down The Five Documentary Shorts Nominated For An Oscar kgosztola.tumblr.com Each year five short documentary films are nominated for an Academy Award, but only a limited number of Americans ever get the opportunity to view them. BULLSH*T NEVER TASTED SO GOOD Whole Foods: America's Temple Of Pseudoscience thedailybeast.com Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods. It's all pseudoscience — so why are some kinds of pseudoscience more equal than others? Read more on Digg.com → SPARKS FLY Kyle Larson (42) starts a multi-car collision between Turn 3 and Turn 4 with Austin Dillon (3), Jamie McMurray (1), Casey Mears, Marcos Ambrose (9), Kasey Kahne (5), Michael Annett (7) and Brain Vickers (55) during the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Death Sells (And Everyone's Buying)

How To Win 'Jeopardy!', The Art Of Persuasion, Explained In 59 Seconds, The Day We Pretended To Care About Ukraine, Muscle Made From Fishing Wire Is 100x Stronger Than Yours, Old Time Farm Crime: The Opium Wars The Daily Digg Friday, February 21, 2014 LUCK AND A QUICK THUMB How To Win 'Jeopardy!' psmag.com Answer: Win this show and the general population will believe you are smart. Question: "What is Jeopardy!"? DO US THIS ONE FAVOR The Art Of Persuasion, Explained In 59 Seconds digg.com ...and that's how fascism starts. DEATH SELLS (AND EVERYONE'S BUYING) The Day We Pretended To Care About Ukraine politico.com What does our addiction to disaster porn say about us? WHAT A CATCH Muscle Made From Fishing Wire Is 100x Stronger Than Yours gizmodo.com A research team led by University of Texas at Dallas Professor Ray Baughman just turned all of that around, making wickedly strong artificial muscle fibers from nothing more than fishing wire. POWDER KEG Old Time Farm Crime: The Opium Wars modernfarmer.com It was a major drug bust with more than 1,600 arrests and the confiscation of 11,000 pounds of a highly addictive substance. No, this wasn't a DEA raid of a major meth operation. It was the year 1839 and the Chinese government was cracking down on British importation of opium. Read more on Digg.com → NO END IN SIGHT An anti-government protester holds a crucifix as he prays at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine. Credit: Marko Drobnjakovic/AP Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014