The Planet's Best Stealth Fighter

Facebook Could Give You the Oculus Rift You Always Wanted, The Planet's Best Stealth Fighter Isn't Made In America, Terrifying Footage Of A 61-Car Pileup On Minnesota's Highway 55, The Rise Of Egotarian Cuisine, How Optical Illusions Trick Your Brain The Daily Digg Wednesday, March 26, 2014 OR IT COULD GIVE YOU ADS Facebook Could Give You the Oculus Rift You Always Wanted gizmodo.com The news today that Facebook will buy Oculus — the makers of the best virtual reality experience in existence — caused paroxysms of upsetment and surprise. That's fair! But once the smoke clears, this could turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to the most promising technology we have. U-S-A! U-S — WAIT, WHAT? The Planet's Best Stealth Fighter Isn't Made In America thedailybeast.com The U.S. military likes to think it makes the world's most sophisticated combat aircraft. Think again. EACH OF THOSE LOUD NOISES IS ANOTHER CAR Terrifying Footage Of A 61-Car Pileup On Minnesota's Highway 55 digg.com According to twincities.com the two cars in the initial crash caused a semi to jackknife, and slick conditions allowed the situation to spiral out of control. Miraculously, only one person needed to be taken to the hospital. THE CHEF IS ALWAYS RIGHT The Rise Of Egotarian Cuisine gq.com Something has gone wrong in our restaurant kitchens lately. Suddenly, a new breed of chefs seem to have decided that they should be cooking not for your pleasure but for their own. NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS How Optical Illusions Trick Your Brain theweek.com Look closely at the picture above. What you're actually looking at is a work of art by Johannes Stotter. Despite its extremely photographic nature, it's actually a painting. Even more shocking is the canvas isn't cloth. It's a woman covered in body paint. Read more on Digg.com → AT LEAST PUTIN HASN'T STOPPED GIVING US RIDES A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a new crew to the International Space Station blasts off at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. The Russian rocket carried U.S. astronaut Steven Swanson, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev. Credit: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Don't Open If You're Afraid Of Heights

We Are All Mutants, This Is What It's Like To BASE Jump Off The World Trade Center, The Absolute Laziest Way To Look Good, The Los Angeles That Was Never Built, What It Looks Like When You Get Stuck In A Cave Filling With Water, What Is Your City Masturbating To? The Daily Digg Tuesday, March 25, 2014 YOU PROBABLY CARRY 100 MUTATIONS We Are All Mutants chronicle.com On the hunt for disease genes, researchers uncover humanity's vast diversity. GRAPHIC LANGUAGE BUT WHO CARES — WATCH! This Is What It's Like To BASE Jump Off The World Trade Center digg.com Last September three daredevils (or crazy people, depending who you ask) jumped off 1 World Trade Center, 1,368 feet up in the air. All three turned themselves into authorities Monday, and this incredible footage of the long leap, shot from a helmet cam, was released for the first time. For those of you with a fear of heights, you might want to skip this one. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED The Absolute Laziest Way To Look Good trunkclub.com Shopping is the worst. Between the pushy salespeople and the deceptive mirrors, it's amazing malls still exist. But now thanks to Trunk Club, all you need to look your best is a keyboard and a credit card. FREEWAY-FREE CITY The Los Angeles That Was Never Built smithsonianmag.com Had these 13 grand architectural plans been executed, the city would look entirely different today. WARNING: DO NOT WATCH IF YOU'RE CLAUSTROPHOBIC What It Looks Like When You Get Stuck In A Cave Filling With Water digg.com Panic sets in as this man gets wedged inside a narrow tube in Lost John's Cave. VERY SAFE FOR WORK What Is Your City Masturbating To? digg.com The Pornhub Insights blog is responsible for post after post of awesome porn data. So when we decided we wanted to know what people were getting off to in cities like Anchorage, Honolulu and Detroit, we knew exactly who to ask. Read more on Digg.com → HEAVEN-SENT An Orthodox priest conducts a blessing service in front of the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Monday, March 24. The start of the new Soyuz mission to the International Space Station, ISS, is scheduled on Wednesday, March 26. Credit: AP: Dmitry Lovetsky Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Adventure Time

What You Missed This Weekend, What An 11-Year-Old Saw During 5 Days Lost In New York, If 'Happy Gilmore' Were A Video Game, Sarajevo: The Crossroads Of History, Sirius, UFO Trickster Extraordinaire, The Fascinating Remains Of Rochester's 'Subway' The Daily Digg Monday, March 24, 2014 OR AT LEAST MAY HAVE MISSED What You Missed This Weekend digg.com We sincerely hope you didn't spend the weekend attached to a computer — that's our job. You should be out enjoying your life with friends and family. And since we don't have any friends, we had the time to break down the news you missed. DELIRIOUS NEW YORK What An 11-Year-Old Saw During 5 Days Lost In New York nymag.com When Kareem Granton ran away from his East New York home recently, he spent five days in the wilds of New York City before he was found by a Good Samaritan. Kareem spent nights sleeping on the subway and days, mostly, at Chuck E. Cheese's. Here's how Kareem describes his journey. BETTER THAN RECENT SANDLER MOVIES If 'Happy Gilmore' Were A Video Game digg.com As long as people don't start quoting the movie again, we're totally behind this idea. SHOT DOWN IN HISTORY Sarajevo: The Crossroads Of History ft.com On a street corner here 100 years ago, a 19-year-old Serb nationalist shot the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and triggered the first world war. The assassin, Gavrilo Princip, is still a potent and divisive symbol. BAD DOG Sirius, UFO Trickster Extraordinaire universetoday.com Familiar objects often mistaken for UFOs include bright stars, planets and satellites, but high – if not highest – on the list is Sirius in the constellation Canis Major the Greater Dog. DOWN AND OUT The Fascinating Remains Of Rochester's 'Subway' theatlanticcities.com Not much of Rochester, New York's rapid transit system remains. The network of rail cars launched in 1927 and served its last passenger on June 30, 1956. Read more on Digg.com → ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY A Peking opera performer uses her mobile phone to take photos after she performed for visiting U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama at the Summer Palace in Beijing, Saturday, March 22, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan 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: False Information, A Lucky Guess And An 8-Year-Old Rock God

This 8-Year-Old Girl's Shredding Will Melt Your Face, 'Project Skyborn' Is A Masterfully Tense Short Film You Need To Watch, Guy Pulls Off Incredible 'Wheel Of Fortune' Guess, Louis C.K. Proven Wrong In The Best Way Possible, How (Not To) Draw 'Game Of Thrones', Adorable Time Lapse Of Pregnancy Is Also A Man Playing A Song To His Wife The Daily Digg Sunday, March 23, 2014 SUGOI! This 8-Year-Old Girl's Shredding Will Melt Your Face digg.com We'd take her over Steve Vai any day. Keep being awesome! BREATH OF FRESH AIR 'Project Skyborn' Is A Masterfully Tense Short Film You Need To Watch digg.com A man finds himself on a mysterious planet trapped in a game of death. VANNA IS A CRUEL MISTRESS Guy Pulls Off Incredible 'Wheel Of Fortune' Guess digg.com You will never guess what this guy guessed to win "Wheel Of Fortune." WAIT FOR IT Louis C.K. Proven Wrong In The Best Way Possible digg.com Louis C.K. had some choice words for the aspiring actors who ask questions at "Inside The Actor's Studio." NSFW How (Not To) Draw 'Game Of Thrones' digg.com How To Draw (With Detail) is our favorite perfectly straight-faced drawing tutorial parody. He's the Steve Brule of your career as an artist. AWWWW Adorable Time Lapse Of Pregnancy Is Also A Man Playing A Song To His Wife digg.com A photo every day of pregnancy + original heartfelt music + clever editing = Internet gold. Read more on Digg.com → THANKS NASA! Ten years in the making, this is the clearest infrared panorama of our galactic home ever made, courtesy of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and 2.5 million snapshots. Credit: Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Pad Is Worse Than The Needle

The New Spring, Brought To You By Climate Change, In Five Charts, What We Learned This Week, Guys Try To Do Their Girlfriend's Makeup, Have These Musicians Found A Way To Game Spotify?, The Best (Fictional) Quarterback Of All Time, Drug Dealers Aren't To Blame For The Heroin Boom. Doctors Are. The Daily Digg Friday, March 21, 2014 EXCEPT FOR THIS 'SPRING' THAT IS The New Spring, Brought To You By Climate Change, In Five Charts popsci.com How climate change has shifted spring's emergence. 3/17 – 3/21 What We Learned This Week digg.com What did you learn this week? We learned why coders are going crazy, where Tabasco sauce is made, and what a narwhal's tusk actually does. 'I KNOW WHAT CATS LOOK LIKE' Guys Try To Do Their Girlfriend's Makeup digg.com Like many heterosexual relationships, this video chiefly involves men being bumbling idiots, and women being very, very patient. SNOOZEFEST Have These Musicians Found A Way To Game Spotify? qz.com Vulfpeck, a funk band based in Michigan, thinks it has cleverly figured out a way to make Spotify pay the bills: by recording an album of complete silence and getting people to stream it while they sleep. HOLLYWOOD BOWL The Best (Fictional) Quarterback Of All Time grantland.com What do you want? It's the offseason, people. THE PAD IS WORSE THAN THE NEEDLE Drug Dealers Aren't To Blame For The Heroin Boom. Doctors Are. newrepublic.com Heroin epidemics don't come and go randomly, like the McRib. They have clearly identifiable causes — and in this case, by far the largest cause is doctor-prescribed pills. Read more on Digg.com → INHERITING A CONFLICT A child drags a toy truck past pro-Russian soldiers standing outside an Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, Crimea. With thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and sailors trapped on military bases, surrounded by heavily armed Russian forces and pro-Russia militia, the Kiev government said it was drawing up plans to evacuate its outnumbered troops from Crimea. Credit: AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014