Flying, Spying, Killing Machines

Drones And Everything After, What You Missed This Weekend, Cuba Is Punching Far Above Its Weight When It Comes To Ebola, 'Better Call Saul' Is Now A Song, In 1976 I Discovered Ebola, Now I Fear An Unimaginable Tragedy, Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature Hidden In Facebook Messenger The Daily Digg Monday, October 6, 2014 COME FOR THE ARTICLE, STAY FOR THE GIFS Drones And Everything After nymag.com The flying, spying, killing machines that are turning humans into superheroes. DIGG PICKS What You Missed This Weekend digg.com Lab-grown penises, the death of Saturday morning cartoons, and of course more Ebola updates. NO MAN IS AN ISLAND Cuba Is Punching Far Above Its Weight When It Comes To Ebola washingtonpost.com While the international community has been accused of dragging its feet on the Ebola crisis, Cuba, a country of just 11 million people that still enjoys a fraught relationship with the United States, has emerged as a crucial provider of medical expertise in the West African nations hit by Ebola. LIKE FRASIER OR LIKE AFTERMASH? 'Better Call Saul' Is Now A Song digg.com Everybody's favorite crooked lawyer not only has his own TV show, but now he's got his very own song, as well. Show creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould wrote the lyrics, but it's Junior Brown who brings the tune to life. LESSONS FROM HISTORY In 1976 I Discovered Ebola, Now I Fear An Unimaginable Tragedy theguardian.com Peter Piot was a researcher at a lab in Antwerp when a pilot brought him a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had fallen mysteriously ill in Zaire. 'PAY ME OR I'LL POKE YOUR KNEES' Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature Hidden In Facebook Messenger techcrunch.com Facebook Messenger is all set up to allow friends to send each other money. All Facebook has to do is turn on the feature, according to screenshots and video taken using iOS app exploration developer tool Cycript by Stanford computer science student Andrew Aude. Read more on Digg.com → FAULTY TOWER Members of the Castellers Collas Jove Xiquets de Tarragona fall as they tried to complete their human tower during the 25th Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain, on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. The tradition of building human towers or "castells" dates back to the 18th century and takes place during festivals in Catalonia, where "colles" or teams compete to build the tallest and most complicated towers. Credit: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

This Week's Best Videos: The Return Of Homestar Runner, A Man Riding A Bike Very Dangerously And Another Man Saying 'Burger'

Danny MacAskill Rides The Ridge, 'Fish Eye Lens,' A Brand-New Animation From Homestar Runner, Jerry Seinfeld Won A Clio Award, Gave Scathing Speech Mocking Advertising, BUUUUUUUURRGGGEEERRRR, The Work Of A Professional Neon Sign Maker, The Eyes Of Alfred Hitchcock The Daily Digg Sunday, October 5, 2014 DON'T LOOK DOWN Danny MacAskill Rides The Ridge digg.com Danny MacAskill is a very good bike rider. A very, very good bike rider. So he climbed a mountain near his home on the Isle of Skye and did something that will make you scream with joy and horror. EVERYTHING IS BETTER 'Fish Eye Lens,' A Brand-New Animation From Homestar Runner digg.com You know how some bands decide to get back together and tour, like, 15 years after they broke up? This is sort of like that, but the cast of Homestar Runner aren't all broke, overweight and hate each other now. HAVE A GREAT EVENING Jerry Seinfeld Won A Clio Award, Gave Scathing Speech Mocking Advertising digg.com "I think spending your lives trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy." BUUUURGGGGEEEEEER BUUUUUUUURRGGGEEERRRR digg.com BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRGGGGGGEEEER '10 SECONDS' The Work Of A Professional Neon Sign Maker digg.com Mike Heist has been working in the neon industry in Portland, Oregon for 30 years. He is a master of his craft, and is responsible for the bending of some of the city's most iconic signage. DON'T LOOK AWAY The Eyes Of Alfred Hitchcock digg.com It is said the eyes are the windows to the soul, and the late, great director Alfred Hitchcock had quite a way with eyes. Though most of the peepers shown in this tribute to Hitch reveal dark, disturbed and fearful souls behind them. Read more on Digg.com → THIS IS ED. HE ISN'T REAL Want a good sense of how far computer graphics have come to mimicking actual humans? See if the beginning of this demo fools you too. Credit: Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Bite The Bullet (Train)

How The Law Turns Battered Women Into Criminals, The Train That Made Modern Japan, What We Learned This Week, A Secret History Of Mormon Heavy Metal, What Doesn't David Fincher Do?, What Would It Take To Turn New York Into A Megacity? The Daily Digg Friday, October 3, 2014 A FAILURE TO PROTECT How The Law Turns Battered Women Into Criminals buzzfeed.com Arlena Lindley's boyfriend Alonzo Turner beat her for months and murdered her child — so why was she sent to prison for 45 years? THE MOVEMENT OF CAPITAL The Train That Made Modern Japan theguardian.com At 10am on 1 October 1964, with less than a week and a half to go before the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the two inaugural Hikari Super Express Shinkansen, or "bullet trains," arrived at their destinations, Tokyo and Osaka. They were precisely on time. DIGG PICKS What We Learned This Week digg.com This week we learned why cyclists shave their legs, how to use an app for consensual sex and why this cat is a hero. 'WAR IN HEAVEN' IS PRETTY BRUTAL A Secret History Of Mormon Heavy Metal deathandtaxesmag.com For a brief, blaring onslaught in the early 1970s, Utah's most famous musical Mormons proudly put themselves in league with Satan. That's right: the Osmonds went heavy metal. AND THE OTHER WAY IS WRONG What Doesn't David Fincher Do? digg.com For sheer directorial craft, there are few people working today who can match David Fincher. And yet he describes his own process as "not what I do, but what I don't do." Join Tony Zhou today in answering the question: What does David Fincher not do? NO NEED FOR STREET JUDGES What Would It Take To Turn New York Into A Megacity? io9.com Something bizarre happened overnight: New York City's population grew to the size of Shanghai's, swelling from 8 million people to 24 million. It's like a natural disaster, but this tidal surge is made of human needs. Here's how we'll rebuild the city to make room for them all. Read more on Digg.com → THE BUS GOT ITS GOATS Goats look out of a bus window, while being transported to a near by livestock market, to be displayed for sale in preparation for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice", on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Muslims around the world will mark Eid al-Adha, as the biggest holiday of the Islamic calendar. It commemorates the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim or Abraham, as he is known in the Bible to sacrifice his son in accordance with God's will, though in the end God provides him a sheep to sacrifice instead. Credit: AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

On The Wings Of A Pig

The Cult Of Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Female Sociopath, What Country's Film Industry Has The Best Gender Equity?, Proof Buying A GoPro Doesn't Make Your Life More Exciting, The Story Of Abercrombie's Highbrow, Controversial, Sort Of Amazing Magalog, The Mystery Man Behind Teen Witch Fan Club The Daily Digg Thursday, October 2, 2014 UNQUESTIONING SKEPTICS The Cult Of Neil deGrasse Tyson politico.com Neil deGrasse Tyson is a very famous and popular scientist. He even has a TV show. And wears a cool astronomical vest. Only he's not infallible. GONE GIRLS The Female Sociopath digg.com In honor of the "Gone Girl" premiere this week, we've decided to reissue this piece about the power of the female sociopath in our collective cultural imagination. Read it, see the movie, discuss amongst yourselves. THE BEST OF THE WORST What Country's Film Industry Has The Best Gender Equity? bitchmagazine.org We know that women woefully make up only 30 percent of speaking roles in American films. But a new study looks at how women fare in cinema internationally. GO-MEDIOCRE Proof Buying A GoPro Doesn't Make Your Life More Exciting digg.com Just like buying a treadmill doesn't make you skinny. BEFORE WE CALLED IT 'BRANDED CONTENT' The Story Of Abercrombie's Highbrow, Controversial, Sort Of Amazing Magalog racked.com A&F Quarterly, the magalog produced from 1997 to 2003 by Abercrombie & Fitch, is probably most famous now for its nudity-filled Bruce Weber photo shoots — and for being a lightning rod for controversy. NO, NOT SABRINA The Mystery Man Behind Teen Witch Fan Club noisey.vice.com Teen Witch Fan Club is totally a Tumblr generation artist: He was born of the Internet. The man behind the alias is Zain Curtis and the internet acts as his sole form of communication — he doesn't own a phone — and it's platform for him to express himself as a musician, clothing designer, magazine editor and Internet explorer. Read more on Digg.com → LIKE A HUMAN TESSELLATION South Korean army soldiers demonstrate their martial arts skills during the 66th anniversary of Armed Forces Day at the Gyeryong military headquarters in Gyeryong, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

We Know It When We See It

Is Coding Art?, How Bill Murray Went Missing During Letterman's First Episode, The Hunters Have Become The Gatherers, The Long History Of Uninvited White House Guests, Apple Plans On Making A Gold iPad, Will Ferrell Screams At Derek Jeter For Four Minutes Straight The Daily Digg Wednesday, October 1, 2014 WE KNOW IT WHEN WE SEE IT Is Coding Art? newrepublic.com The "art" label is appended to show that a commercial product has transcended its industrial creation or that some higher, more thoughtful intelligence is at work. So what about particularly good code? AN ORAL HISTORY How Bill Murray Went Missing During Letterman's First Episode digg.com As told by the people who were there. FOOD WE DIGG SPONSORED The Hunters Have Become The Gatherers stickinabox.co Man used to have to find meat, but now thanks to Stick in a Box, meat finds us. Embrace this strange new world and get yourself some quality beef jerky delivered right to your door. And if you use the promo code "Digg," you'll get 20% off a lifetime subscription. A lifetime of jerky. A lifetime. ONE GUY WATCHED A MOVIE WITH FDR The Long History Of Uninvited White House Guests nytimes.com Long before the latest fence jumper captured international attention by getting as far as the East Room, the history of White House security breaches was vast and varied. BECAUSE GOLD NEVER BENDS Apple Plans On Making A Gold iPad bloomberg.com Apple will add a gold color option for its full-size iPads in an effort to boost a category that's posted declining shipments this year, according to people familiar with the plans. WILL FERRELL? SCREAMING? NO! Will Ferrell Screams At Derek Jeter For Four Minutes Straight digg.com He's not messing around, folks. Read more on Digg.com → LEND A HELPING HAND A woman being discharged from the Island Clinic Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, is sprayed with disinfectant, Tuesday Sept. 30, 2014. Six months into the world's worst-ever Ebola outbreak, and the first to happen in an unprepared West Africa, the gap between what has been sent by other countries and private groups and what is desperately needed is huge. Credit: AP Photo/Jerome Delay Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014