Flies In His Eyes

New York City's Island Of Death, Should You Believe Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Seymour Hersh?, VIDEO: Two Lunatics Fly Jetpacks Over Dubai, In 4K, The Puzzle Of Fruit Fly Individuality, A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art, The Male Suicides: How Social Perfectionism Kills The Daily Digg Wednesday, May 13, 2015 NOT STATEN ISLAND New York City's Island Of Death failedarchitecture.com Hart Island, the city's graveyard for unclaimed bodies, holds many stories, myths, and visions. Can the most recent plan, of turning it into a public park, become reality? WHY WAS THIS A STORY? Should You Believe Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Seymour Hersh? digg.com A recent story published by legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh calls into question everything we know about the killing of Osama bin Laden. But is it accurate? BUZZ FLIGHTYEAR VIDEO: Two Lunatics Fly Jetpacks Over Dubai, In 4K digg.com It's 2015 and we thought we'd have jetpacks by now, and it turns out we do — you just need to be crazy to fly them. Luckily Yves Rossy and his protege Vince Reffet are trained professionals. NOT ALL FLIES The Puzzle Of Fruit Fly Individuality quantamagazine.org Genetically identical fruit flies raised under the same conditions are creating a biological map of what makes individuals unique. EMBRACING THE NEW MEDIUM A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art dinofarmgames.com Pixel art once held immense value for developers and game designers. By strategically grouping colors and observing their relationships, more complex shapes and forms could be implied and executed with an extremely limited tool set . However the presence of, and preference for, HD has now made pixel art commercially (not aesthetically) obsolete. FATAL FLAWS The Male Suicides: How Social Perfectionism Kills digg.com Why do male suicides outnumber female in every country in the world? Get more stories on Digg.com → STRONGHOLD NO MORE Smoke rises from Al-Qahira castle, an ancient fortress that was recently taken over by Shiite rebels, following a Saudi-led airstrike in Taiz city, Yemen, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition kept up their airstrikes in Yemen on Tuesday, targeting the positions of Shiite rebels and their allies just hours ahead of the scheduled start of a five-day humanitarian cease-fire. Credit: AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik 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