Stay Weird This Weekend

How Weird Al Eclipsed (Almost) Every Star He Ever Parodied. After nearly 40 years, the accordion-playing nerd has become a legend in his own right.

Digg Editions Morning · Sat, Feb 18

SPONSORED BY

LONG READS FOR A LONG WEEKEND WHITE & NERDY How Weird Al Eclipsed (Almost) Every Star He Ever Parodied washingtonpost.com After nearly 40 years, the accordion-playing nerd has become a legend in his own right. A FATHER OF CONTROVERSY The Cost Of Defying The President newyorker.com When my father went on strike with other air-traffic controllers, in 1981, he suffered in ways from which he would never recover. CRT YOUR WAY OUT America's Television Graveyards motherboard.vice.com How millions of old CRT televisions have wound up abandoned in warehouses all over the country. HOW TO TAKE A LIFE The 'Killologist' Training America's Cops mensjournal.com "Cops fight violence. What do they fight it with? Superior violence. Righteous violence." Want More? Here Are All The Best Long Reads From Around The Internet digg.com MATTRESSES WE DIGG | SPONSORED The Mattress Industry Doesn't Want You To Learn These 3 Secrets (So Here They Are) lull.com Here's the deal, most mattress retailers charge you 6-12x their manufacturing costs, plus you have to deal with a cheesy salesman pressuring you to buy. Cue Lull, the smarter way to buy a mattress — online with free shipping to your doorstep and a 100-night trial. MARKET DISRUPTION EXPENSIVE TASTER Is Hong Kong's $30 Chicken Wing Worth It? luckypeach.com "Even if we take it off the menu for a night, we still sell as many as we do when it's on, says Belon chef Daniel Calvert. "People will come in and not even look at the menu. They'll just hold up their phones, show us a photo." THE GANG MIGHT BE BREAKING UP? WATCH: The Teaser Trailer For 'Silicon Valley' Season Four Is Finally Here digg.com "Silicon Valley" returns to HBO on April 23rd. MEET THE NEW BOX Apple Vowed To Revolutionize Television. An Inside Look At Why It Hasn't bloomberg.com Apple has essentially settled for turning the television set into a giant iPhone: a cluster of apps with a store. Which is not exactly the revolution many were hoping for. MONOPOLY? WHO, ME? Mark Zuckerberg Is (Inadvertently) Making a Great Argument For Breaking Up Facebook nymag.com Zuck finally grapples with the power of his creation. WHO'S RUNNING THIS THING? THIS LOOKS LIKE SO MUCH FUN Chinese Power Companies Are Using Flame-Throwing Drones To Keep Wires Clean gizmodo.com What happens when your power lines get all kinds of trash hanging from them and it's not safe to send up a human? In Xiangyang, China, you send in the drones. Specifically, the drones that shoot fire. WHO WILL WE SEE TONIGHT? All The Celebrities Who Have Offered To Play Trump Administration Members On 'SNL' digg.com Melissa McCarthy has been widely celebrated for her hilarious portrayal of White House press secretary Sean Spicer on the last two episodes of "SNL". Now, actors and actresses are coming out of the woodwork with offers to play various members of Trump's administration. WORLD'S MOST NONEXISTENT BOSS No CEO: The Swedish Company Where Nobody Is In Charge bbc.com Software consulting firm Crisp holds four-day meetings for all staff two to three times a year. They are used to making decisions on issues that affect everyone, such as an office move, but workers are encouraged to make decisions themselves at other times. WEEKEND WATCHES BEAK, TOOTH AND CLAW Undersea Face-Off Between An Octopus And A Crab Ends... Unexpectedly digg.com Not to spoil it, but — neither wins, really. But one definitely loses. OFFLINE DATING Single Guy Tries Something Revolutionary In The Age Of Tinder: He Actually Asks Out Random Girls In Real Life digg.com There's something weird about the modern era when this set-up feels like the premise of a "social experiment" prank video and not just how people sometimes meet one another. Our advice for the weekend: Long walks through the park > fighting crabs on the sea floor. View the Edition at Digg.com »

Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2017 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge Street 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10002

We Don't Need No Stinking Bonuses!

​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: You can actually pay employees too much, the '80s had just as much trash tech as today and the secret history of the "No Stairway" gag from "Wayne's World."

Digg Editions Morning · Fri, Feb 17

THE GOING RATE WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK You Can Actually Pay People Too Much, And Other Facts digg.com ​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: You can actually pay employees too much, the '80s had just as much trash tech as today and the secret history of the "No Stairway" gag from "Wayne's World." WAY TO GO, PHARMACISTS? Which College Degrees Produce The Most (And Least) Financially Responsible Students? priceonomics.com Different degrees certainly lead to different career paths and income levels, but what about financial responsibility and credit scores? SO MANY ZEROS How To Make Sense Of Extreme Numbers nautil.us Our brains are pretty good at distinguishing the size of the difference between small numbers (2,000, for instance) and big ones (let's say, 500 million). But we have real trouble figuring out the distance between two big numbers (like 50 billion and 1 trillion). Why? TRACKERS WE DIGG | SPONSORED Never Lose Your Keys Again thetileapp.com Tile is a tiny Bluetooth tracker and easy-to-use app that helps you find the stuff you really can't afford to lose (wallets, bags, keys, etc.) in seconds. Grab their four-pack of trackers and get 30% off your order. WE'VE COME A LONG WAY ALMOST AS WEIRD AS NEW YORK NOW Unearthed Photos From New York's Insane And Weird '90's Club Scene buzzfeed.com A look back at NYC's wildest clubs of the 1990s. STOP KILLING BUFFALO The Forgotten History Of 'The Oregon Trail,' As Told By Its Creators motherboard.vice.com You must always caulk the wagon. Never ford the river. SO SAD EVERY DAY How Early 2000s Emo Became A Subject Of Scorn And Salvation consequenceofsound.net Emo music has been the on-and-off subject of ridicule ever since it broke out into the mainstream 15 years ago. A GOOD PLACE TO SPEND THE APOCALYPSE How New Zealand Became A Billionaires' Paradise theguardian.com Gearing up for potential catastrophe, billionaires are looking for out-of-the-way places to ride out the storm — and many of them have settled on rural New Zealand. BEST/WORST FOUR PAWS, INFINITE POSSIBILITIES Happy Friday: Can Someone Please Tell Us What This Is? digg.com Is it a dog? Is it a bear? Both? Neither? Somebody help, please. WORST ELM Why Does This One Couch From West Elm Suck So Much? theawl.com Comparing notes with other unsatisfied owners of the Peggy sofa. VIDEO OF THE DAY THAR SHE BLOWS Holy Cow, Look At This Crazy Wind digg.com A woman captured this insane, tree-bending bout of wind during a storm (and possible tornado) in North Carolina earlier this week. IN THE NEWS Trump Forced Chris Christie To Order Meatloaf, And Other Trump News From Today Robert Harward Turns Down Trump's Offer To Be National Security Adviser Thimble Piece Voted Out Of Monopoly ICYMI: Highlights From Donald Trump's Incredible Press Conference Yesterday FROM THE DIGG STORE Seriously, Don't Go Online Without A VPN digg.com But only if you're serious about avoiding hackers, not getting all your data stolen, and staying safe on the internet. What is Friday but a tiny obstacle to the weekend? You're almost there. View the Edition at Digg.com »

Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2017 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge Street 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10002