Behind The Snob

The Science Of Snobbery, What's It Like To Sit Down With African Dictators?, How To Get Your Website On Digg, Photographs Of Europe's Jeweled Skeletons, How To Survive A Lightning Strike The Daily Digg Tuesday, September 10, 2013 WELL OOH LA DI DA MR. FRENCH MAN The Science Of Snobbery priceonomics.com Research can suggest that you don't actually enjoy wine, classical music, or even fancy foods. But the snobs aren't making it all up. WORDS WITH WARLORDS What's It Like To Sit Down With African Dictators? 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com One of the first African presidents I ever met was Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, a septuagenarian Somali warlord, who sat in a gilded chair in the presidential palace in Mogadishu as intense fighting raged outside. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Get Your Website On Digg squarespace.com No matter what you're looking to build, Squarespace makes it fast and easy. To prove it, we're going to feature the best site made by any Digg reader who signs up with Squarespace this week. That's right, you could be right here. Your mom will be so proud. BEAUTY IN DEATH Photographs Of Europe's Jeweled Skeletons atlasobscura.com The afterlife is just more elegant for some of us. STAY INSIDE How To Survive A Lightning Strike videos.digg.com Do you own medieval armor? Oh, you don't... well watch this video anyways. Read more on Digg.com → IS THAT A BALL IN YOUR POCKET OR ARE YOU... Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates after winning the men's final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia at the U.S. Open in New York Sept. 9, 2013. Credit: Fang Zhe Xinhua News Agency/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

It Can't Be Killed

Ever dream of being on Digg? Maybe being mocked in a kicker? Well now's your chance. We're going to choose the best site made by any Digg reader who signs up with Squarespace this week and feature it for a day. Pretty good, right? Click here to give it a shot. Anyway, sorry to interrupt your reading. Please continue. -The Digg Team The Daily Digg Monday, September 9, 2013 SKREEE How The 'Aliens' Chestbuster Was Created news.cnet.com The Stan Winston School of Character Arts takes the gory wrappings off the chestburster puppet used in "Aliens." MEMORY PINBALL Reasons You Need A Nap npr.org We spend about one-third of our lives sleeping, but much of that function remains a mystery. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Make A Beautiful Website Without Knowing Sh*t squarespace.com No matter what you're looking to build, Squarespace makes it fast and easy. To prove it, we're going to feature the best site made by any Digg reader who signs up with Squarespace this week. That's right, you could be right here. Your mom will be so proud. CALL IT A MIRACLE The Phone That Could Not Be Killed newyorker.com The Nokia 3310's virtual indestructibility has made it a legend—or at least the subject of countless internet memes. It has been thrown great distances, run over by automobiles, smashed by hammers, shot, and set on fire. BETTER TURN OFF YOUR READ RECEIPTS It Takes Longer To Compose Texts That Have A Lie In Them gizmodo.com And a new study suggests that people take longer to respond to texts when they're cooking up a lie. Just one more thing to factor into the social calculus. Read more on Digg.com → STREET FIGHT Protesters clash with riot policemen as activists of the Chilean Human Rights organization "Detained and Disappeared People" take part in a demonstration in Santiago on September 8, 2013, in remembrance of late President Salvador Allende, who died on September 11, 1973 during the military coup d'etat led by general Augusto Pinochet. Credit: SEBASTIAN SILVA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Take Back The Internet

The U.S. Government Has Betrayed The Internet And We Need To Take It Back, This Teenager Is Better Than Almost Anyone At Figuring Out Apple's Secrets, 10 Things That Could Go Very Wrong If We Attack Syria, Here's How Tipping Actually Works, A Lone Bandit And The Mystery Of France's Greatest Diamond Heist The Daily Digg Friday, September 6, 2013 A CALL TO ARMS... OR KEYBOARDS The U.S. Government Has Betrayed The Internet And We Need To Take It Back theguardian.com The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet – and now we have to fix it. KIDS THESE DAYS This Teenager Is Better Than Almost Anyone At Figuring Out Apple's Secrets huffingtonpost.com An Australian teenager who has built an online following by leaking pictures of upcoming Apple products has done it again, showing off the purported fingerprint scanner of the latest iPhone ahead of its expected launch next week. PICK YOUR POISON 10 Things That Could Go Very Wrong If We Attack Syria washingtonpost.com Why is there so much debate over such a seemingly costless endeavor? Because things might go wrong. In particular, these 10 things could go wrong. IN CASE YOU NEVER WORKED IN A RESTAURANT Here's How Tipping Actually Works newyork.seriouseats.com Unless you're in the habit of tipping with a handshake, sliding a $20-or-whatever directly into your server's hand, here's the reality: your tip does not go directly to your waiter. Here's how it all actually works. GONE IN 60 SECONDS A Lone Bandit And The Mystery Of France's Greatest Diamond Heist theatlantic.com A gunman stole $136 million of jewelry from an exhibition at the Intercontinental Carlton Cannes hotel in July. Investigators and gem experts are still wondering how it happened. Read more on Digg.com → CALIENTE Flames blaze during a wildfire near the village of Barbudo in northwestern Spain, in the early hours of September 5, 2013. Credit: MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

You're Not Smarter Than This Teenager

Ariel Castro Found Dead In Cell, Jacob Barnett, Boy Genius, This Is Possibly The World's Highest Trick Shot, How Al Qaeda Has Tried To Fight Back Against America's Drones, The Untold Story Of The Battle Of Bastion The Daily Digg Wednesday, September 4, 2013 DEVELOPING Ariel Castro Found Dead In Cell 19actionnews.com 52-year-old convicted kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro was found hanging in his cell Tuesday. YOU ARE NOT SMARTER THAN THIS TEENAGER Jacob Barnett, Boy Genius www2.macleans.ca Diagnosed with severe autism as a child, Barnett is now 15 and one of the world's most promising physicists. DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME This Is Possibly The World's Highest Trick Shot deadspin.com Trick shot collective How Ridiculous traveled to Rotterdam's Euromast to complete what they call a world record. TRIED USING RC PLANES How Al Qaeda Has Tried To Fight Back Against America's Drones washingtonpost.com Al-Qaeda's leadership has assigned cells of engineers to find ways to shoot down, jam or remotely hijack U.S. drones, hoping to exploit the technological vulnerabilities of a weapons system that has inflicted huge losses against the terrorist network. ENEMY INSIDE THE WIRE The Untold Story Of The Battle Of Bastion gq.com It was a suicide mission. None of them had a doubt about that. Read more on Digg.com → BOMBS OUT A rebel fighter carries homemade mortar rounds on September 3, 2013 in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa. Credit: MEZAR MATAR/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

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Meet The Guy You Didn't Know You Hated

A Peek Into The Spam Den, Can Math Predict War?, The Strange Story Of Skype, Fascinating, Rare Dolphins And Whales You've Never Seen Before, 7 Bizarre Pre-Game Rituals From Around The World The Daily Digg Tuesday, September 3, 2013 MEET THE GUY YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU HATED A Peek Into The Spam Den nytimes.com A Moscow court's ruling this summer linked four defendants to one of the world's most prolific illegal networks of virus-infected computers that send spam. PSYCHOHISTORY IRL Can Math Predict War? kernelmag.com Can supercomputers predict wars, revolutions and even armed robberies? SO-CALLED HISTORY The Strange Story Of Skype arstechnica.com As Skype turns ten, a look back at how six Europeans changed the world. HIDDEN IN PARADISE Fascinating, Rare Dolphins And Whales You've Never Seen Before wired.com Preferring deeper water and diving for more than an hour at a time, some species of whales and dolphins are rarely seen, and seldom studied. URINE 7 Bizarre Pre-Game Rituals From Around The World theweek.com And you thought your team's quirks were quirky. Read more on Digg.com → BROKEN BRIDGES A rebel fighter and a child cross a damaged bridge in Syria's eastern town of Deir Ezzor, on September 2, 2013. Credit: ABO SHUJA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014