A Real Brewhaha

China's Island Builders, There Is No Bourbon Shortage And Other Facts, Get Your Hands On A Better Watch, For Less, Tracing The Origins Of Lucky Buddha Beer, VIDEO: SpaceX Launches In 4K, How An Ex-Cop Saved, Then Doomed, Two Wrongfully Convicted Men The Daily Digg Friday, April 10, 2015 THE PEOPLE'S WAR AT SEA China's Island Builders foreignaffairs.com Recent satellite images show that the Spratly islands, a series of features in the South China Sea, are growing at a staggering pace. Tons of sand, rocks, coral cuttings, and concrete are transforming miniscule Chinese-occupied outcroppings into sizeable islands with harbors, large multi-story buildings, airstrips, and other government facilities. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK There Is No Bourbon Shortage And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that the bourbon apocalypse is a lie, humanity is on the verge of discovering alien life and why you should eat broccoli stalks. WATCHES WE DIGG SPONSORED Get Your Hands On A Better Watch, For Less mvmtwatches.com The only thing better than getting yourself a snazzy new watch? Paying less than full price for it: Use the code "DiggApril" to save $10 off your next order from MVMT. A REAL BREWHAHA Tracing The Origins Of Lucky Buddha Beer theconcourse.deadspin.com Lucky Buddha Beer is beer. Because of the fact that I have had many other beverages definitively known to science as beer (not bragging ... much), merely tasting the Lucky Drink Co. product was proof positive: This is beer. Beyond that meek pronouncement, however, the bona fides of this stuff are somewhat more difficult to establish. LAUNCH FOOTAGE THAT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD VIDEO: SpaceX Launches In 4K digg.com If you're looking for approximately two minutes of rockets blasting off into space in a resolution your computer probably can't display, have we got the video for you. A MURDER AT LA CASA GREEN, PART 3 How An Ex-Cop Saved, Then Doomed, Two Wrongfully Convicted Men buzzfeed.com In 2010, two men were exonerated and freed after more than 16 years in prison. Then the man who worked to free them was arrested for witness tampering, putting their newfound freedom in jeopardy. Get more stories on Digg.com → GODZILLA EX MACHINA Godzilla's head is unveiled as the irradiated monster was appointed special resident and tourism ambassador for Tokyo's Shinjuku ward during its awards ceremony in Tokyo Thursday, April 9, 2015. The giant Godzilla head towering 52-meters (171 feet) above ground level was unveiled Thursday at an office of Toho, the studio behind the 1954 original. Credit: AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014