The Bitter Aftermath

After Ferguson, Alec Baldwin Catches Stray Ball At U.S. Open Like A Champ, A Newbie's Guide To Why So Many People Are Watching Twitch, The London Times Is Blasting Reporters With Typewriter Sound Effects, The Iron Dome Intercepts 15 Rockets At The Same Time, Why Government Researchers Think We May Be Living In A 2D Hologram The Daily Digg Wednesday, August 27, 2014 THE BITTER AFTERMATH After Ferguson politico.com St. Louis' decaying black suburbs are about to be forgotten. Again. BALLS FLYING AT HIS FACE Alec Baldwin Catches Stray Ball At U.S. Open Like A Champ digg.com This might be the whitest video to ever exist. EYE CANDY A Newbie's Guide To Why So Many People Are Watching Twitch arstechnica.com Like sports, watching other people game can be as addictive as gaming yourself. HOW TO INDUCE INSANITY 101 The London Times Is Blasting Reporters With Typewriter Sound Effects gizmodo.com Reporters in The Times UK's newsroom are working under a constant soundtrack of (artificial) typewriter clatter. It's an experiment to "increase energy levels," and for a generation of reporters who grew up on word processors, it's probably torture. TURMOIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST The Iron Dome Intercepts 15 Rockets At The Same Time digg.com Israel's Iron Dome defense system is well known across the world. This video is proof of its reputation. WELCOME TO FLATLAND Why Government Researchers Think We May Be Living In A 2D Hologram motherboard.vice.com Operating with cutting-edge technology out of a trailer in rural Illinois, government researchers started today on a set of experiments that they say will help them determine whether or not you and me and everything that exists are living in a two-dimensional holographic universe. Read more on Digg.com → FOG OF WAR A Pro-Russian rebel walks in a passage at the local market damaged by shelling in Petrovskiy district in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. On Tuesday several shells hit the local market and nearby houses during the mortar duel between Pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian army. Credit: AP Photo/Mstislav Chernov Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014