Friday, August 23, 2019

How To Lose 'Friends' And Not Influence People

The Great Seattle Pot Heist, Has Netflix Peaked?, and more.
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ILL INTENTIONS
REEFER BADNESS
The Great Seattle Pot Heist
politico.com
A rash of marijuana thefts has Seattle growers wondering: Is the government leading the thieves right to them?
A SCARY TRACK RECORD
I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds Of Trackers Followed Me
nytimes.com
For several days this spring, I lived my life through this Invasive Firefox, which logged every site I visited, all the advertising tracking servers that were watching my surfing and all the data they obtained.
'IT WAS DONE TO INTIMIDATE'
A Dead Cat, A Lawyer's Call And A Five-Figure Donation: How Media Fell Short On Epstein
npr.org
A coterie of intimidating lawyers. A bullet delivering a message. Even, it is alleged, a cat's severed head in the front yard of the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Such were the tools the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is said to have used to try to soften news coverage and at times stave off journalistic scrutiny altogether.
CONS AND PROS
A Couple Used A Doll To Fake A Baby's Birth And Death, And More Of The Week's Best Scam Stories
digg.com
A woman pretended to have cancer to have a £15,000 wedding, the student who manipulated her lonely high school teachers to cheat and more of this week's best scam and hoax stories.
DIGG PICKS
The Sega Genesis Mini Packs 40 Classic Games Into A Tiny Console
digg.com
Look back fondly on 16-bit classics ranging from "Alex Kidd" to "Earthworm Jim" to "Virtua Fighter 2."
NOT WORTH A DAMN
SHOW'S OVER
Has Netflix Peaked?
nymag.com
Has Netflix lost its glow along with its "Friends"? Can it, in the long term, retain its streaming crown? Or is its atypical business model just a house of cards?
DOESN'T MAKE THE GRADE
The Great University Con: How The British Degree Lost Its Value
newstatesman.com
Never before has Britain had so many qualified graduates. And never before have their qualifications amounted to so little.
'FRANKLY, BORING'
The Best One-Star Reviews Of The Seven Wonders Of The World
washingtonpost.com
The "new" Seven Wonders of the World attract millions of travelers every year. Some people are blown away by the sites, like the spectacular cloud forest that shrouds Machu Picchu or the exquisite marble carvings of the Taj Mahal. Others leave unimpressed by the so-called wonders and leave reviews on the Internet to prove it.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
BABY ON BOARD
Taekwondo Instructor Tries To Show Little Girl How To Break A Board, And The Girl Takes Her Way Too Literally
digg.com
A little girl from Puerto Rico was ​having a little trouble on kicking through a board.
IN THE NEWS
David Koch, Billionaire Conservative Activist And Philanthropist, Dies At 79
Leaked Documents Show Brazil's Bolsonaro Has Grave Plans For Amazon Rainforest
Qantas To Run Test Flights On World's Longest Route
Europe To See Third Major Heat Wave This Summer, As Temperatures Soar From France To Scandinavia
DIGG PICKS
This Instant Coffee Is Actually Delicious
huckberry.com
We know, the instant coffee in the super market tastes awful. However, the folks at Verve are going above and beyond to deliver a craft instant coffee that real human beings would actually want to drink.
Don't break a board, but do take a break this weekend.