The Year In Digg

The Year In Digg, The Ten Most Confusing Car Buttons And Symbols — And What They Mean, What Happens When One Of Your Coworkers Dies, Facebook's Two Faces, Yes, You Can Die From Laughing Too Hard The Daily Digg Friday, December 20, 2013 DIGGS WE DIGG (SPONSORED BY DIGG) The Year In Digg digg.com In the last year, we here at Digg have posted 21,303 stories, tweeted 25,088 times, and drank over 1,000 beers. But these numbers only tell part of the tale. That's why we've compiled the most noteworthy stats and stories from 2013 into something we like to call, "The Year In Digg." 'CHECK ENGINE' MEANS CHECK THE ENGINE The Ten Most Confusing Car Buttons And Symbols — And What They Mean jalopnik.com Every driver has seen a strange dashboard symbol or found an unfamiliar button in their car and wondered, "What the hell is that?" Luckily, we're here to help. A DIFFERENT SORT OF GRIEF What Happens When One Of Your Coworkers Dies thebillfold.com "Mike don't open your e-mails," he says. That's when I notice that our office has a candle in it too. "You need to know," he says, trails off, starts again, "that Colin has passed away." HARD WIRING Facebook's Two Faces technologyreview.com The company says it wants to wire the world. But will it do more than make its own app better? THE LAST LAUGH Yes, You Can Die From Laughing Too Hard theweek.com It's all fun and games until someone ruptures a blood vessel. Read more on Digg.com → THE ROCKETTES LOOK TERRIBLE THIS YEAR Indonesian and Vietnamese sepak takraw players compete in the double team sepak takraw event during the 27th Southeast Asian SEA Games in Naypyidaw on December 19, 2013. Credit: YE AUNG THU/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

Your Life Is Boring

Google's Location History Browser Is A Minute-By-Minute Map Of Your Life, OED Birthday Word Generator: Which Words Originated In Your Birth Year?, The Elaborate Journey Of A Cronut, This Full-Sized Lego Car Is Powered By Air, This Is Why You Should Never Lose Your Lottery Ticket The Daily Digg Thursday, December 19, 2013 YOUR LIFE IS BORING Google's Location History Browser Is A Minute-By-Minute Map Of Your Life techcrunch.com Quick! Where were you last Tuesday at 6:35 PM? You probably have no idea. Most people's brains just don't work that way. But odds are, Google knows. FUTURE BABY, YOUR WORD IS TWERK OED Birthday Word Generator: Which Words Originated In Your Birth Year? blog.oxforddictionaries.com Do you know which words entered the English language around the same time you entered the world? DRAWING THE NEWS The Elaborate Journey Of A Cronut readtapestry.com A delicious trip. PLEASE DON'T BE A HOAX This Full-Sized Lego Car Is Powered By Air digg.com Granted it doesn't go very fast, and it's probably the most unsafe vehicle since the Hindenburg, but we really, really want one. THE LOTTERY BASICALLY WINS THE LOTTERY This Is Why You Should Never Lose Your Lottery Ticket usnews.nbcnews.com More than a half a billion dollars went missing last year — in glove compartments, washing machines, desk drawers and sometimes even literally in the trash. Read more on Digg.com → FLYING IS FASTER THAN SKIING Bode Miller of the USA competes during the FIS Alpine World Cup Men's Downhill training, on December 18, 2013 in Val Gardena. Credit: OLIVIER MORIN/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

A Good Church Man Is Hard To Find

Where Are All The Good Church People?, This Chart Blows Up The Myth Of The Welfare Queen, These Jeans Were Made For You, The Best Way To Put Your Duvet Cover Back On, Fishing For Monsters In The Amazon The Daily Digg Wednesday, December 18, 2013 THEY'VE BEEN RAPTURED Where Are All The Good Church People? theamericanscholar.org Evangelical Christianity in America is losing its power — what happened to Orange County's Crystal Cathedral shows why. BOOKMARK FOR FUTURE FOX NEWS REBUTTALS This Chart Blows Up The Myth Of The Welfare Queen theatlantic.com The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows us the frugal reality of life on the social safety net. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED These Jeans Were Made For You weargustin.com This is how shopping should be. THE DUVET BURRITO The Best Way To Put Your Duvet Cover Back On digg.com Maybe now you'll stop living like a filthy animal and will actually wash your sheets more than once every few months. FACE OF A PIRANHA, BODY OF A TORPEDO Fishing For Monsters In The Amazon vocativ.com It's called the arapaima, or pirarucu. It lives in the Amazon River. It's enormous. Read more on Digg.com → HE'S EARNED HIS ALLOWANCE Workers mow the lawn of the Corinthians Arena stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Credit: CHRISTOPHE SIMON/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

Is Wi-Fi Murdering Your Plants?

Airport Security Saves Baby In Amazing Catch, Your Wireless Router Could Be Murdering Your Houseplants, The Best Lesson You Probably Haven't Learned, Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math, How Tight Jeans Almost Ruined America's Money The Daily Digg Tuesday, December 17, 2013 TSA TOO BUSY FRISKING TO PULL THIS OFF Airport Security Saves Baby In Amazing Catch digg.com A careless father sits his little boy down on a luggage counter in Katowice-Pyrzowice airport in Poland and begins to take off his jacket while the kid is slowly leaning more and more forwards. Thankfully, one of the airport's security officers observes the situation and saves the baby from a painful crash with an amazing, volleyball-like dive. TOTALLY SAFE FOR HUMANS. TOTALLY. Your Wireless Router Could Be Murdering Your Houseplants dailydot.com Are you slowly killing your houseplants? Probably! But there might be a reason (other than neglect) why they're all yellow and wilty: your Wi-Fi router. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED The Best Lesson You Probably Haven't Learned teamtreehouse.com If you had learned to code in school, you could have made that awesome app by now. Thankfully, Treehouse teaches you everything you need to know without boring you to tears. SORRY LEIBNIZ Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math news.sciencemag.org How old is the binary number system? Perhaps far older than the invention of computers or even the invention of binary math in the West. BLAME YOUR STRETCHY PANTS How Tight Jeans Almost Ruined America's Money washingtonpost.com Fashion comes at a price. But who knew that it would claim our entire system of money? Read more on Digg.com → SPILL SOME COW'S BLOOD ON YOUR SCREEN A supermoon rises next to the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, some 65 kilometers south of Athens, on June 23, 2013. Credit: ARIS MESSINIS/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

Counting Sheep Doesn't Actually Work

Crashing Other People's Cell Phone Conversations Makes For Hilarity At The Airport, Photographs Of Sochi Before The Madness, The Story Of A Song That Helped Change The World, Your Down Coat Could Be The Product Of Cruelty, Counting Sheep Doesn't Actually Work The Daily Digg Monday, December 16, 2013 TALKING IT OUT Crashing Other People's Cell Phone Conversations Makes For Hilarity At The Airport digg.com Don't you hate when people talk loudly on their phones in public? Why not have some fun with it and "crash" their calls! PUTIN'S PARTY Photographs Of Sochi Before The Madness ngm.nationalgeographic.com Islamist insurgents, tough Cossacks, warm winters — welcome to Russia's Olympic host city. 'FREE NELSON MANDELA' The Story Of A Song That Helped Change The World spin.com In an excerpt from his book on protest songs, Dorian Lynskey details the turbulent creation of the 1984 single that spread anti-apartheid sentiment across the globe. DOWNER COAT Your Down Coat Could Be The Product Of Cruelty salon.com Some down is plucked while geese are still alive, causing immense suffering. Find out how to avoid it. AMBIEN DOES Counting Sheep Doesn't Actually Work gizmodo.com If you're still using the bore-yourself-to-sleep method, some bad news is coming down the pike: Counting sheep doesn't work. Read more on Digg.com → THAT'S THE WRONG SUIT, SANTA A man dressed as Santa Claus walks on the beach in Nice, France as part of a traditional christmas winter sea swimming event. Credit: VALERY HACHE/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

How I Shot, Smoked, And Screwed My Way Through The NFL

How I Shot, Smoked, And Screwed My Way Through The NFL, CIA Scandal Revealed, The Sewer Men Of Mumbai, If You Drank Like James Bond, You'd Be Shaken, Too, 6 Science-Based Conversation Hacks The Daily Digg Friday, December 13, 2013 MY INJURY FILE How I Shot, Smoked, And Screwed My Way Through The NFL deadspin.com At the end of every season, NFL players are required to undergo a physical exam for legal purposes. Then they're forced to sign an affirmation of health, and never allowed to see it again. So one player sued to get his file. Here's what happened. BEHIND THE COVER STORY CIA Scandal Revealed bigstory.ap.org An American who vanished nearly seven years ago in Iran was working for the CIA on an unapproved intelligence-gathering mission that, when it came to light inside the government, produced one of the most serious scandals in the recent history of the CIA — but all in secret. WORKING CONDITIONS ARE SH*T The Sewer Men Of Mumbai digg.com Every day Mumbai produces enough sewage to fill 4,500 Olympic-size swimming pools. Despite the many modern comforts of Mumbai, the sewer system is outdated and is still cleaned by hand. BOND, (BURP) JAMES BOND If You Drank Like James Bond, You'd Be Shaken, Too npr.org Dr. Indra Neil Guha, a liver specialist, and his colleagues at Nottingham University Hospital in England spent a year poring over Ian Fleming's James Bond books and tabulating how many drinks the suave spy drank a day. HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU 6 Science-Based Conversation Hacks theweek.com So you want to know how to make people like you? It's easier than you think. Read more on Digg.com → FIRST SNOW DAY EVER A Palestinian boys throws a snowball in the West Bank town of Hebron as snow falls on December 12, 2013. A bruising winter storm brought severe weather to the Middle East, forcing the closure of roads and schools and blanketing much of the high altitude areas with snow and ice. Credit: HAZEM BADER/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