Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Not So Funny Anymore

How To Feel Great, Sony May Pull 'The Interview' From Theaters, Get The Gift Of Slim, Inside The New Stealth Arsenal, Mother Calls In To C-SPAN To Yell At Her Pundit Sons, U.S. Will Bid For 2024 Olympics
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014
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THE NATURAL WAY
How To Feel Great
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Zero out of five doctors agree that the trick to getting your day started right is filling out this survey on how to improve the Daily Digg. It won't help prevent any diseases or make you lose any weight, but you'll be able to walk around with your head held high knowing that you've helped a scrappy startup make this email even better. Can't you spare two minutes? You can? Great, thanks a lot!
NOT SO FUNNY ANYMORE
Sony May Pull 'The Interview' From Theaters
hollywoodreporter.com
As hackers issued new threats of violence on Tuesday, Sony Pictures began telling theater owners who had booked "The Interview" that they are free to drop the movie, and that the studio will support them whatever decision they make.
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Get The Gift Of Slim
bellroy.com
It's not about how much money you spend this holiday season, it's how you look carrying it. Bellroy mixes form and function into its wallet, reducing pocket bulge.
TOP GHOST GUNS
Inside The New Stealth Arsenal
popsci.com
A top secret class of autonomous drones is changing the way war is being waged.
'OH GOD IT'S MOM'
Mother Calls In To C-SPAN To Yell At Her Pundit Sons
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Brothers Brad and Dallas Woodhouse get an unexpected call from their mother during a "Washington Journal" appearance.
CITY TO BE CHOSEN LATER
U.S. Will Bid For 2024 Olympics
chicagotribune.com
The United States Olympic Committee has thrown a hat in the ring for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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JUST A QUICK HIBERNATION
Image: Florin Bors, aged 8 from Bacau, northern Romania, wearing a bear fur takes a break from performing a holiday season ritual in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, touring house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. In recent years following the economic downturn in Romania, a European Union member since 2007, the tradition has moved to Romania's cities where dancers travel to perform the ritual for money.
Florin Bors, aged 8 from Bacau, northern Romania, wearing a bear fur takes a break from performing a holiday season ritual in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, touring house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. In recent years following the economic downturn in Romania, a European Union member since 2007, the tradition has moved to Romania's cities where dancers travel to perform the ritual for money. Credit: AP Photo/Octav Ganea, Mediafax
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Sideways And Slantways And Longways And Backways

Multidirectional, Cable-Free Elevators Could Be Ready By 2016, Quora And The Quest To Answer Every Question, Now Cooking Doesn't Have To Be A Pain, This Rave Is Only For Children, Virtual-Reality Movies Will Require New Methods Of Storytelling, NASA's $349M Monument That Has Gone To Waste
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014
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DAWN OF THE WONKAVATOR
Multidirectional, Cable-Free Elevators Could Be Ready By 2016
io9.com
Elevator technology hasn't really improved much since its first appearance over 160 years ago. Enter ThyssenKrupp's MULTI — an advanced elevator system that's poised to radically transform the way we get around buildings.
BECAUSE YAHOO ANSWERS JUST WON'T CUT IT
Quora And The Quest To Answer Every Question
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Adam D'Angelo wants the world to share its knowledge on the Internet. But can Quora grow beyond Silicon Valley and convince every human to do just that?
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Now Cooking Doesn't Have To Be A Pain
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Forget wasting time at the grocery store. With Blue Apron you get the perfect amount of the best ingredients delivered right to your door. Easy shopping, easy recipes, and easy cooking — it really doesn't get much better than this. Oh and now get $20 off your first order!
TONIGHT, YOU ARE ALL NAMED 'MOLLY'
This Rave Is Only For Children
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In what universe is this a good idea?
FROM ON SCREEN TO IN SCREEN
Virtual-Reality Movies Will Require New Methods Of Storytelling
vulture.com
As long as humans have visual cortices, we're going to want to make art that reflects the way we see the world. Now the technology is finally catching up.
SEE YA SPACE COWBOY
NASA's $349M Monument That Has Gone To Waste
washingtonpost.com
In June, NASA finished work on a huge construction project here in Mississippi: a $349 million laboratory tower, designed to test a new rocket engine in a chamber that mimicked the vacuum of space. As soon as the work was done, it shut the tower down. Now, the agency will spend about $700,000 a year to maintain it in disuse.
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SANTACON'S VIRTUOUS TWIN
Image: Runners, dressed as Santa Claus, take part in the 38th
Runners, dressed as Santa Claus, take part in the 38th "Christmas Corrida Race" in the streets of Issy Les Moulineaux, on the western outskirts of Paris, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. Over 3000 runners participate in the 10 kilometers ( 6.25 miles) run. Credit: AP Photo/Michel Euler
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Monday, December 15, 2014

You're Our Only Hope

The Best Survey You'll Ever Take Is..., The Detainee Abuse Photos Obama Didn't Want You To See, What Happens When An Engineer Designs A Clothing Line, What You Missed This Weekend, Every Episode Of Every 'Star Trek' Series Ever, Ranked, A Simple Trick To Make A Balloon Much More Fun
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Monday, December 15, 2014
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YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE
The Best Survey You'll Ever Take Is...
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Probably not this one. But it's still a good one and it's super quick and it'll really, really help us figure out how to make the Daily Digg — the very thing you're reading right now — even better. We know you have a busy day, but can't you spare two minutes? Awesome, thank you!
WHAT ARE THE ONES HE DID WANT US TO SEE?
The Detainee Abuse Photos Obama Didn't Want You To See
thedailybeast.com
If you thought the Senate's "torture report" was shocking, imagine the prospect of the Obama administration releasing hundreds, maybe thousands of photographs depicting detainee abuse.
CLOTHING WE DIGG SPONSORED
What Happens When An Engineer Designs A Clothing Line
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Welcome to the future, where clothes fit right, feel good, and are full of high-tech advancements.
DIGG PICKS
What You Missed This Weekend
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Dick Cheney and Bill Cosby spoke out as the U.S. government passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill.
NOW HEAR THIS
Every Episode Of Every 'Star Trek' Series Ever, Ranked
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I've been a rabid fan of the franchise since childhood and I've got the wedgie scars to prove it. While still maintaining a semi-functional adult life I pen the One Trek Mind column at StarTrek.com and host panels at Star Trek conventions. So when I present you with this complete ranking of every single Star Trek episode ever, it's not like we just shot photon torpedoes at the wall.
HACK BALLOONS
A Simple Trick To Make A Balloon Much More Fun
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"I'm sorry but I'm afraid an ordinary balloon doesn't give me the performance my lifestyle demands." We agree dude.
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HONESTLY, WE THOUGHT THEY'D BE MORE HIGH-TECH
Image: Election staff members carries a ballot box for vote counting in the parliamentary lower house elections at a ballot counting center in Tokyo, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014.
Election staff members carries a ballot box for vote counting in the parliamentary lower house elections at a ballot counting center in Tokyo, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Koji Sasahara
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Sunday, December 14, 2014

This Week's Best Videos: An Impossible Ski Line, A Powerful Laser Turret And A Cool Trials Rider

Watch This Ski Video And Try Not To Scream, Watch Adam Savage Recreate Barbarella's Space Rifle From Start To Finish, Every On-Screen Death In The 'Lord Of The Rings' Trilogy In One Video, Watch The U.S. Navy's Laser Turret Blow Stuff Up, Jetman Flies In Formation With A Stunt Plane, Welcomes The Future, Hell Is Being Stuck In The Elevator With This Insane Man
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Sunday, December 14, 2014
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LINE OF THE YEAR
Watch This Ski Video And Try Not To Scream
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Put down that GoPro, drop those poles and store your skis. You might as well give up on making ski videos. Cody Townsend just skied down a face between two rock walls that looks narrower than that impossible to clean space between your sink and shower.
ANATOMY OF A BUILD
Watch Adam Savage Recreate Barbarella's Space Rifle From Start To Finish
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Over the course of one day Adam created a replica of the titular heroine's rifle from classic B-movie "Barbarella." Although this video is nearly as long as the movie itself, it's also a lot more watchable.
ONE VIDEO TO RULE THEM ALL
Every On-Screen Death In The 'Lord Of The Rings' Trilogy In One Video
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In which we discovered that the two things that did most of the killing in Peter Jackson's trilogy were water and ghosts.
PEW PEW
Watch The U.S. Navy's Laser Turret Blow Stuff Up
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Here's a demonstration of the Navy's Laser Weapon System (LaWS). Fittingly, it seems to be controlled by a highly-modified Xbox controller.
WHEN HUMANS TAKE FLIGHT
Jetman Flies In Formation With A Stunt Plane, Welcomes The Future
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God never granted us wings, so we had to build them ourselves. Fly on, Jetman! Soar into the sunset like a beautiful futuristic animal!
7 MINUTES IN HELL
Hell Is Being Stuck In The Elevator With This Insane Man
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To clear things up, it's not the kid in the foreground. It's the large man wearing the fedora hovering in the corner. And he's taking executive action.
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WICKED COOL
Image: Red Bull continues to astound us with videos of trials riders stretching the limits of balance and control in some of the most interesting locales in the world.
Red Bull continues to astound us with videos of trials riders stretching the limits of balance and control in some of the most interesting locales in the world. Credit:
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Friday, December 12, 2014

So Kawaii

Ferguson Divided My Family, But We Were Already Broken, Much Ado About Four Dollars, These Clothes Were Made For You, Japan Has A Cute Problem, Why Did 'SNL' Cut This Hilarious VH1 Parody?, What We Learned This Week
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Friday, December 12, 2014
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'WE WERE FAMILY'
Ferguson Divided My Family, But We Were Already Broken
buzzfeed.com
As a black man I'd learned to fear the police. Then the police became my family.
WHY WAS THIS A STORY
Much Ado About Four Dollars
digg.com
This week the Internet had a hard time dealing with a man emailing a restaurant about price differences.
STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED
These Clothes Were Made For You
weargustin.com
This is how shopping should be.
EXCUSE ME, THE WORD IS 'KAWAII'
Japan Has A Cute Problem
medium.com
How the pink apron keeps women down.
I LOVE THESE GUYS!
Why Did 'SNL' Cut This Hilarious VH1 Parody?
digg.com
VH1 counts down the 100 Greatest Guys, from your classic nice guy to a guy's guy to an owner of two nice winter coats.
DIGG PICKS
What We Learned This Week
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This week we learned that the CIA tortured at least 119 people, why retailers keep sending you catalogs and that the only thing worse than promising a man will be eaten alive by a snake is for a man not to be eaten alive by a snake.
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NOT A CARAPACE IN THE WORLD
Image: A turtle swims in the aquarium in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014.
A turtle swims in the aquarium in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki
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