Shooting Blind

Washington Post Reporter Recounts His Own Arrest In Ferguson, This Experimental Ebola Drug Might Never Reach West Africa, Stop Being A Tourist, The Americans Who Can't See But Love Guns, How Rye Came Back, A Hair Salon Guru's Next Big Thing: Ending Shampoo The Daily Digg Thursday, August 14, 2014 WOULD ONLY SPEAK ON BACKGROUND THOUGH Washington Post Reporter Recounts His Own Arrest In Ferguson washingtonpost.com "My hands are behind my back," I said. "I'm not resisting. I'm not resisting." At which point one officer said: "You're resisting. Stop resisting." PILL KILL This Experimental Ebola Drug Might Never Reach West Africa businessweek.com A Canadian company investigating an experimental treatment for Ebola may be months away from making new drug supplies, offering no guarantee on Wednesday evening that its unapproved treatment would reach patients. VISIT. EXPLORE. DON'T BE HERDED Stop Being A Tourist theverge.com Look at these idiots. Oblivious, naïve, and probably American. Even their execution of the quintessential holding-up-the-leaning-tower-of-Pisa pose is deeply flawed. Are they aware of the history? Of the architectural miasma that hangs in the air like the smell of stale Coppertone? No, no they aren't. They're tourists and they suck. SHOOTING BLIND The Americans Who Can't See But Love Guns bbc.com In the U.S., being blind is no bar to owning and carrying firearms. The blind people who do it say they are simply exercising their constitutional right, and present no danger to the public. THE WHIS-KEY TO SUCCESS How Rye Came Back theatlantic.com The unexpected source of a craft-whiskey boom. WASHED OUT A Hair Salon Guru's Next Big Thing: Ending Shampoo wired.com Purely Perfect, the new product line that defies just about every expectation most consumers have when it comes to personal hygiene. Read more on Digg.com → HANDS WHERE WE ALL CAN SEE THEM A member of the St. Louis County Police Department points his weapon in the direction of a group of protesters in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. On Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in the St. Louis suburb. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Roberson Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

How Crude

Now Arriving At Pittsburgh International: Fracking, Lauren Bacall Dead At 89, A Compilation Of The Many Times FedEx Has Given Zero F*cks About Your Packages, The Science Of Drunk Texting, Fox News Host Calls Robin Williams 'Such A Coward', The NFL's Hometown Rosters The Daily Digg Wednesday, August 13, 2014 HOW CRUDE Now Arriving At Pittsburgh International: Fracking nytimes.com Pittsburgh's airport is struggling financially and mired in debt. For salvation, airport officials are looking down — about 6,000 feet. The quiet runways, it turns out, are sitting on enough natural gas to run the whole state of Pennsylvania for a year and a half. R.I.P. Lauren Bacall Dead At 89 insidemovies.ew.com The 89-year-old actress died from a stroke at her home. 'HANDLE WITH CARE' IS MORE OF A SUGGESTION A Compilation Of The Many Times FedEx Has Given Zero F*cks About Your Packages digg.com With this level of wanton destruction and complete disregard for what their job entails, any one of these FedEx workers would fit right in at Congress. MIS U SOO MUCH :( The Science Of Drunk Texting news.com.au Alcohol doesn't make you behave badly, it just makes you care less. UPDATE: SHEP SMITH APOLOGIZES Fox News Host Calls Robin Williams 'Such A Coward' digg.com Fox News host Shepard Smith needs to learn a little empathy. This is unacceptable behavior towards a man who struggled with addiction and depression, especially after Mr. Williams' family asked to have their privacy respected during their time of grieving. UPDATE: Smith has since apologized and clarified his remarks. THE BROWNS WOULD ACTUALLY BE GOOD The NFL's Hometown Rosters besttickets.com What if every football player was rostered on the team he was born closest to? The Texas, California and Florida NFL teams would, logically, have some pretty mean starting rosters. But what would the rest of the teams look like? Read more on Digg.com → LITTLE GIRL, BIG TOP A girl from the Mobile Mini Circus for Children demonstrates her skills in front of police officers during a performance at the European Union Compound in Kabul, Afghanistan. The circus is a program run by a nonprofit group supported by foreign embassies and others in Afghanistan. Some 850 children across the country take part in the program, which includes children from refugee families and orphanages. Credit: AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Seeking Comic Relief

Robin Williams Dead At 63, The Domestic Cat Genome Has Been Fully Sequenced, And It's Fascinating, Conan Delivers News Of Robin Williams' Death To Studio Audience, Where Are All The Female Billionaires?, The Unstoppable March Of The Upward Inflection?, Earth's Gravitational Pull May Partly Melt A Bit Of The Moon The Daily Digg Tuesday, August 12, 2014 R.I.P. Robin Williams Dead At 63 nytimes.com Robin Williams, an Academy Award-winning actor and comedian who imbued his performances with wild inventiveness and a kind of manic energy, died on Monday at his home in Marin County, Calif. He was 63. NEXT UP: REMAINING 8 LIVES The Domestic Cat Genome Has Been Fully Sequenced, And It's Fascinating io9.com The Felis catus genome has been fully sequenced and annotated, which means your pet kitty is about to give up its genetic secrets to science. BEARER OF BAD NEWS Conan Delivers News Of Robin Williams' Death To Studio Audience digg.com Conan, Andy Richter and guest Will Arnett paid tribute to Robin Williams during Monday night's show. Conan seems especially shook up as he delivers the news to the crowd. TRYING TO BREAK THE HIGHEST GLASS CEILING Where Are All The Female Billionaires? businessweek.com The debate about wealth inequality continues to rage. So do conversations about gender equality. At the intersection of the two comes a new report from economists Caroline Freund and Sarah Oliver of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, who point out that the rich who are getting richer are disproportionately, overwhelmingly men. CAN ONLY ANSWER IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION The Unstoppable March Of The Upward Inflection? bbc.com Whether it's called the upward inflection, high-rising terminal or simply "uptalk", the habit of making statements sound like questions is a genuine linguistic mystery. THE SCAR SIDE OF THE MOON Earth's Gravitational Pull May Partly Melt A Bit Of The Moon arstechnica.com A small region near the edge of the Moon's core may be partly molten. Read more on Digg.com → R.I.P. This 1978 file photo originally released by ABC shows actor Robin Williams on the set of ABCs "Mork and Mindy." Williams, whose free-form comedy and adept impressions dazzled audiences for decades, has died in an apparent suicide. He was 63. Credit: AP Photo/ABC Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

He's Got The World On A String

You're 16. You're A Pedophile. You Don't Want To Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now?, This Guy Is The Yo-Yo Champion Of The World, We Know You Like To Watch, Strange Portraits From A California Trailer Park, Dear Dads: Here's How To Talk To Girls, What You Missed This Weekend The Daily Digg Monday, August 11, 2014 WHEN THERE'S NOWHERE TO TURN You're 16. You're A Pedophile. You Don't Want To Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now? medium.com There's no helpline for pedophiles who want treatment before they act. So a teen with a terrible secret had to find his own way to save himself and others like him. BEST 'AROUND-THE-WORLD' OF THE WORLD This Guy Is The Yo-Yo Champion Of The World digg.com We totally get why California native Gentry Stein just won the World Yo-Yo Contest in Prague. SIGN UP FOR DIGG'S VIDEO NEWSLETTER We Know You Like To Watch digg.com We watch a lot of videos. Like, way too many. Let us leave the good eggs in your inbox every day so you're never late to the content party. Because there's no party like a content party, right? Right? MOBILE PHOTOS Strange Portraits From A California Trailer Park flavorwire.com It is "American Gothic" at its strangest — and it could easily be a photo taken at the Fat Trout Trailer Park in "Twin Peaks." There are proud men slick with sweat, sticking to vinyl car seats. Residents peer from windows disapprovingly. DON'T TELL US WE'RE EQUAL, WE ALREADY KNOW Dear Dads: Here's How To Talk To Girls hellogiggles.com I grew up a feminist. I wasn't raised in a family who spoke about the fact that women and men are equal over dinner; it just never occurred to me that they were not. That is, until I was subtly told so. DIGG PICKS What You Missed This Weekend digg.com You probably saw "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" this weekend, judging by the box office numbers. But you may have missed Paramount's announcement that there's going be a sequel. We guess that's what they call "Turtle Power." Read more on Digg.com → FLY ME TO THE SUPERMOON A plane flies in front of a supermoon above Westminster in central London en route to Heathrow airport on August 10, 2014. The full moon is positioned closest to the earth on its orbit in over 20 years. It is 50,000 kilometers closer than normal and 14% bigger and 30% brighter than usual. The scientific name for a 'supermoon' is a perigee moon, meaning "closest point to the earth." Credit: AP Image/Gill Allen Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Week's Best Videos: Cooking Frozen Steaks, Anti-Gravity Fluids, And An Industrial-Strength Paper Cutter

Apparently You Shouldn't Be Thawing Your Frozen Steaks Before Cooking, There Are Ways To Clean A Camera, But This Isn't One Of Them, One Tiny Edit Can Make Any Commercial Infinitely Better, These Are The Countries Currently At War, This Industrial-Strength Paper Cutter Makes The Most Satisfying Sound, The Imagery In This Short Would Make Alejandro Jodorowsky Blush The Daily Digg Sunday, August 10, 2014 HIGH STEAKS SCIENCE Apparently You Shouldn't Be Thawing Your Frozen Steaks Before Cooking digg.com Do not just read that headline and run into the kitchen. We don't want you starting a grease fire. 'ADD A LITTLE SOAP' There Are Ways To Clean A Camera, But This Isn't One Of Them digg.com As advertised, this probably cleaned the sensor of this man's camera. As a bonus it's almost certainly broken now. DIGG PICKS One Tiny Edit Can Make Any Commercial Infinitely Better digg.com A new subreddit is recontextualizing your favorite old commercials, one dirty joke at a time. IT'S NOT JUST ISRAEL AND GAZA These Are The Countries Currently At War digg.com Remember Libya? As much as the media is currently enthralled by Israel and, to a lesser extent, Ukraine, that's totally still happening. *VZHOUUU* This Industrial-Strength Paper Cutter Makes The Most Satisfying Sound digg.com One of the many benefits of your dad owning a printing press is being able to play with this awesome "instrument" that can totally chop your whole arm off. 'IRON SKY' The Imagery In This Short Would Make Alejandro Jodorowsky Blush digg.com If you've always wanted to watch "The Holy Mountain" but didn't think you could handle a feature-length fever dream, this beautiful short is for you. Read more on Digg.com → YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GO DOWN, IDIOT A new material developed by MIT makes fluids forget about gravity — a seemingly impossible task accomplished by a series of tiny hair-like structures that respond to magnetism. Science, you've done it again. Credit: Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014