Don't Go Licking Donuts

Going Viral Feels Incredible And Other Facts, Inside The Mysterious 'Death' Of Taliban Leader Mullah Omar, A Perfect Parody Of Bullshit 'Artisanal' Products, John Hughes' Original National Lampoon Vacation Story That Started The Movie Franchise, What Do Digg Editors Do All Day?, The Age Of The Hyper-Scandal The Daily Digg Friday, July 31, 2015 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Going Viral Feels Incredible And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that viral content gets you high, "TFW" started in Southern California and we have yet to create the perfect strawberry. RUMOR HAS IT Inside The Mysterious 'Death' Of Taliban Leader Mullah Omar newsweek.com Just before the end of Ramadan this year, I received an unexpected call from one of Mullah Mohammed Omar's longtime family friends. He had just learned a secret held by only a tiny circle of Omar's most trusted associates: The supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban was dead. BESPOKE WATER MAKERS A Perfect Parody Of Bullshit 'Artisanal' Products digg.com Mmm, taste that locally-sourced Gowanus silt. VACATION, ALL HE EVER WANTED John Hughes' Original National Lampoon Vacation Story That Started The Movie Franchise hollywoodreporter.com In 1979, National Lampoon magazine published the future director's fictitious tale of a family trip gone horribly awry. THR reprints the tale that launched an iconic movie series. THE LIFE OF A LINK What Do Digg Editors Do All Day? blog.digg.com How do we find all that sweet, sweet Internet content? And how the heck does it get on the front page? All is revealed in this humble blog post. DON'T GO LICKING DONUTS The Age Of The Hyper-Scandal billboard.com Why pop stars like Ariana Grande can't seem to escape the trap. Get more stories on Digg.com → LIKE LOOKING INTO A MIRREN ​British actress Helen Mirren looks at one of three wax figures of herself, made in celebration of her recent 70th birthday, at Madame Tussauds in central London, Thursday, July 30, 2015. Credit: Joel Ryan/Invision/AP Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

What Am I Supposed To Do With These Horses?

How A Small-Time Drug Dealer Rescued Dozens During Katrina, The Best Articles Of The Week, Summarized, How to Stop Worrying and Love Your Finances, The US Wants To Build The World's Fastest Supercomputer, The Early Reviews For Windows 10 Are In (And They're Pretty Good!), A Super Tall, Super Thin Tower Built Just To Test Elevators The Daily Digg Thursday, July 30, 2015 'IT AIN'T THE POLICE WHO WAS HELPING US' How A Small-Time Drug Dealer Rescued Dozens During Katrina buzzfeed.com To the cops, Jabbar Gibson was just a low-level drug pusher. But to the residents of a New Orleans public housing complex, he's the man who rescued them from Hurricane Katrina when no one else would. THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST The Best Articles Of The Week, Summarized digg.com ​​In this week's edition of the Long-Reader's Digest: How do you tell if someone is a domestic terrorist? Also, the United States' dangerously broken immigrant worker system and a comic book criminal. UPGRADE YOUR FINANCES SPONSORED How to Stop Worrying and Love Your Finances simple.com Say hello to banking with beautiful, built-in budgeting and saving tools that are easy enough for anyone. With Simple, personal finance starts feeling effortless, even fun. HOPEFULLY IT WON'T BE A FLOP The US Wants To Build The World's Fastest Supercomputer wired.com President Barack Obama has signed an executive order authorizing the creation of new supercomputing research initiative called the National Strategic Computing Initiative, or NSCI. Its goal: pave the for the first exaflop supercomputer — something that's about 30 times faster than today's fastest machines. BUT THEY AREN'T PERFECT TENS The Early Reviews For Windows 10 Are In (And They're Pretty Good!) digg.com Windows 10 dropped yesterday — should you put it on (in?) your computer? WHAT GOES UP, MUST BE TESTED A Super Tall, Super Thin Tower Built Just To Test Elevators gizmodo.com How do you design a new type of elevator without installing it in an existing building? It's a chicken/egg question that engineers have long struggled with — even using abandoned mine shafts to test new technology. Get more stories on Digg.com → HORSES DON'T GET HELMETS A plains clothes police officer holds on to a couple of horses while wearing the helmet of one of the riders, while Peru's President Ollanta Humala delivered his last State of the Nation address during Independence Day celebrations, in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Both riders, member of the Hussars of Junin Regiment handed over the reigns of their chargers in order to take a bathroom break. Credit: AP Photo/Martin Mejia Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Kings Under The Mountain

The Physicists' War, Sexy Congress And Other Boehner-fide Political Content From This Week, An App That Saves Money For You? Yes, Please., Salvador Dalí's Rare, Erotic Vintage Cookbook, The Death Of Patient Zero, WATCH: A Rare Look Inside Iron Mountain, Home To America's Most Priceless Artifacts The Daily Digg Wednesday, July 29, 2015 FROM BLACKBOARDS TO BOMBS The Physicists' War nature.com The detonation of nuclear weapons over cities cemented the association of the Second World War as "the physicists' war." Yet the term had been coined long before August 1945, and originally it had nothing to do with bombs or radar. Rather, the physicists' war had referred to an urgent, ambitious training mission: to teach elementary physics to as many enlisted men as possible. THE ENTHUSIASM GAP Sexy Congress And Other Boehner-fide Political Content From This Week digg.com This week in the Enthusiasm Gap: Obama says Guantana-no, Congress is on a highway to hell and Trumpy gets grumpy. SAVINGS WE DIGG SPONSORED An App That Saves Money For You? Yes, Please. digit.co Meet Digit. Digit knows that saving money can be a hassle, so it does it for you (it's very smart). DREAMING OF POMEGRANATES Salvador Dalí's Rare, Erotic Vintage Cookbook brainpickings.org "When I was six years old," Salvador Dalí once professed, "I wanted to be a cook." But it wasn't until his late sixties that he channeled his childhood fantasy into Les Diners de Gala — a lavishly illustrated cookbook, originally published in 1973 and featuring Dalí's intensely erotic etchings and paintings. THE ONE AND ONLY The Death Of Patient Zero esquire.com Personalized medicine — or, as President Obama calls it, precision medicine — may indeed one day deliver routine medical miracles. But for Stephanie Lee, the only miracles were the human and ancient kind. THE KINGS UNDER THE MOUNTAIN WATCH: A Rare Look Inside Iron Mountain, Home To America's Most Priceless Artifacts digg.com Hidden away in the hills of rural Butler Pennsylvania, Iron Mountain houses some of America's most amazing, priceless treasures. Get more stories on Digg.com → NOTHING LIKE ICE AND VEGETABLE CAKE Giant panda Jia Jia eats bamboo next to her birthday cake made with ice and vegetables at Ocean Park in Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 28, 2015 as she celebrates her 37-year-old birthday. Jia Jia broke the Guinness World Records title for "Oldest Panda Living in Captivity" on Tuesday. Credit: AP Photo/Kin Cheung Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Don't Make Me Eat It

How Many Gun Stores Are There In Cities Around The World?, A Late Twist In The Legal Effort To Free The 'Happy Birthday' Song From Copyright, Digg Uses Slack At Work. You Should Too., WATCH: Whatever Is Happening In This Video Should Be A Crime, Uber's Phantom Cabs, Scientists Made A Compound That Mimics Exercise The Daily Digg Tuesday, July 28, 2015 WHERE NOT TO STAND DOWNRANGE How Many Gun Stores Are There In Cities Around The World? hopesandfears.com Hopes & Fears look at the availability of legal gun stores and firearms dealers in various cities around the world, and consider the firearms economy's relationship to gun laws and policies, safety and crime statistics, illegal trading, and community activism. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL OF US A Late Twist In The Legal Effort To Free The 'Happy Birthday' Song From Copyright hollywoodreporter.com The "proverbial smoking gun," as the plaintiffs put it to a California judge, is a book of children's songs that comes straight out of Warner/Chappell's digital library. JOBS WE DIGG SPONSORED Digg Uses Slack At Work. You Should Too. slackatwork.com Working at a company that uses Slack is usually more fun than working at one that doesn't. Oh and by the way, here are some companies that use Slack and happen to be hiring. DON'T COOK RAW FISH WITH AN IRON WATCH: Whatever Is Happening In This Video Should Be A Crime digg.com No thanks, we're not hungry. And we probably won't be ever again. GHOST RIDER Uber's Phantom Cabs motherboard.vice.com When Heather*, a driver who has been working for Uber for about eight months, opened up the passenger app a few weeks ago from her residence, she noticed something peculiar. The app's map showed four drivers on the streets immediately by her pick-up location. Yet, the estimated wait time for the closest car was 17 minutes, and there were no other drivers in sight. *TAKES ENTIRE BOTTLE, BECOMES THE HULK* Scientists Made A Compound That Mimics Exercise washingtonpost.com Ever fantasize of being able to see the benefits of exercise without having to, you know, work out? If so, research from Britain's University of Southampton published this week gives a glimpse of what may be possible in the future. Get more stories on Digg.com → REMEMBERING THE FALLEN Students participate in a mass dance in front of a mural of the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung delivering a speech, Monday, July 27, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea as part of celebrations for the 62nd anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War. Credit: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014