Sometimes The Salmon Cannons You

This Week's Best Memes, Ranked, How a Single Pair of Sneakers Explains the Booming Billion-Dollar Sneaker Resale Industry, and more.

Digg Editions Morning · Sat, Aug 17

THEY'VE GOT THE GOOD STUFF SIMON COWELL'S SALMON CANNON This Week's Best Memes, Ranked digg.com It's an internet fight and only the funniest meme will emerge victorious. This week's challengers? The fish tube, Four Loko's new White Claw ripoff, that girl sipping kombucha and more. SOLE SURVIVOR How A Single Pair Of Sneakers Explains The Booming Billion-Dollar Sneaker Resale Industry gq.com Inside the wild, shockingly lucrative world of sneaker reselling. THE JET SETTER A French Chateau Hoarding The World's Largest Private Collection Of Fighter Jets messynessychic.com At no other chateau in all of France will you find a Soviet helicopter parked on the back lawn. DIGG PICKS Ace Next Semester With These Four Handy Classroom Accessories digg.com A beast of a pen, a beauty of a dopp bag, a French notepad and a zero-frills laptop bag. LOOKING GOOD China's Abandoned Nuclear City, And More Of The Best Photography Of The Week digg.com Photographing twins at the Twins Days festival, life in Tel Aviv's bohemian bus station and more best photos of the week. FIGHTING THE BAD FIGHT KUBRICK'S WATERLOO Was 'Napoleon' The Greatest Film Never Made? bbc.com Stanley Kubrick's biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte is regularly hailed by critics as the most tantalizing unfinished picture of all time. A VIRULENT THREAT The Myth Of Eurabia: How A Far-Right Conspiracy Theory Went Mainstream theguardian.com Once an obscure idea confined to the darker corners of the internet, the anti-Islam ideology is now visible in the everyday politics of the west. How did this happen? AT YOUR LEISURE? The Double-Edged Sword Of The Shorter Workweek bbc.com With less work to go around, will people twiddle their thumbs or find better things to do with their time? VIDEO OF THE DAY THIS IS SO SOOTHING Furniture Restorer Finds A Mid-Century End Table In Truly Terrible Shape And Restores It To Perfection digg.com From ink-stained and gouged with holes to looking like something you'd see in a store. FROM THE DIGG STORE Save 50% On This Advanced Antivirus That Uses Cutting-Edge AI store.digg.com Protect your computer with this Cylance Smart Antivirus: 2-Yr Subscription: it takes a proactive approach by using machine learning to predict and prevent cyber-attacks before you get infected (and it's too late). Save 50% off and subscribe for just $29. How is already halfway through August? Doesn't matter, it's the weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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Run.exe Out Of House And Home

A Walk In Hong Kong, Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops To Investigate Their Own Customers, and more.

Digg Editions Morning · Fri, Aug 16

VOICES TO BE HEARD WHAT IT'S LIKE IN HONG KONG RIGHT NOW A Walk In Hong Kong idlewords.com This sounds like it shouldn't possibly work, but the protesters are too young to know that it can't work, so it works. CAN'T REST INSURED Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops To Investigate Their Own Customers buzzfeednews.com A cozy alliance between insurers and law enforcement has turned the justice system into the industry's hired gun and left innocent customers facing prison. BEHIND CLOSED BARS I Tried To Tell The World About The MCC. No One Wanted To Listen theatlantic.com The Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Jeffrey Epstein died on Saturday, has become notorious for decades of inhumane treatment. DIGG PICKS Throw At Least One More Summer Bash With This Portable Fire Pit huckberry.com Summer's almost over, but there's still time to have one more big party. Bring along this fire pit to your final shindig, and end summer strong. CONS AND PROS The Wedding Crasher Who Posed As A Guest And Stole Wedding Gifts, And More Of The Week's Best Scam Stories digg.com How expedited airport security programs are just another cash grab, the lunch ladies who stole lunch money and more of this week's best scam and hoax stories. BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE IT'S GAMERGATE'S WORLD NOW When The Internet Chases You From Home nytimes.com Five years ago, a series of vile events changed the way we fight online. EVERYBODY LIVES LIKE LUCY The Most Influential Homes In The History Of TV curbed.com Since the earliest days of television, homes on the small screen — from the suburban ranch with its white picket fence to the loft with its views of the city skyline — have shaped our reality and our desires. DOESN'T TRAVEL WELL IN TIME 'Home Alone' Is Getting A Reboot. We Catalogued All The Travel Plot Points That Wouldn't Hold Up Today washingtonpost.com The 1990 movie "Home Alone" tapped into that nagging sense we all feel when traveling: What did I forget? But when we learned Disney would remake the classic for its new streaming service, we realized that much in the original would be unfamiliar and unrealistic for today's hyper-connected travelers. VIDEO OF THE DAY 'I THINK YOU GOTTA COME WITH ME' This Clip Of A Guy Rescuing An Abandoned Coyote Pup Is Most Delightful Thing You'll Watch Today digg.com Between this guy's thick Chicago accent and his heart of gold, this video is just gold. IN THE NEWS Israel Will Allow Rep. Rashida Tlaib To Enter Country For Humanitarian Visit Trump Eyes A New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland Hong Kong Protesters Call For 'Mulan' Boycott After Star Went Public In Support Of Police ABC Fined $395K By FCC For 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Emergency Alert Misuse DIGG PICKS The Best Affordable Laptops digg.com Want a laptop that can handle your workload without doing too much harm to your bank balance? These laptops are an excellent balance between price and performance. It's Friday. Go out and crush the weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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Don't Tweet Me, Bro!

'I've Seen The Worst In Humanity': The Hard Reality Of Being A Brand Social Media Manager, The Day Philadelphia Bombed Its Own People, and more.

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Digg Editions Morning · Thu, Aug 15

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UNSETTLING REALITIES HANGING ON BY A THREAD 'I've Seen The Worst In Humanity': The Hard Reality Of Being A Brand Social Media Manager digg.com "The worst has to be death threats or threats of sexual violence with really graphic footage." 61 HOMES WERE DESTROYED The Day Philadelphia Bombed Its Own People vox.com An oral history of a 1985 police bombing that changed the city forever. HOW THE KIDS GO ALT RIGHT The Meme App iFunny Is A Huge Hub For White Nationalists buzzfeednews.com The Russian-owned image-sharing application is extremely popular with teen boys. It's also full of far-right propaganda. SECURITY WE DIGG | SPONSORED The Wire-Free Security Cam — With A 365-Day Battery amazon.com Always keep an eye on your home with eufyCam E. Have peace of mind that your home is secure 365 days of the year from just one charge. Live stream video and record in 1080p for crystal-clear quality day and night. A WHOLE WEIRD WORLD PUTTING THE SANE IN INSANE My Wild Weekend At FairyCon gen.medium.com Greetings from the Fairy & Human Relations Congress, where the fairies may be pretend but the magic is real. SIZE OF TWO TENNIS COURTS A Visit To The World's Tiniest Nation theatlantic.com The absurd and remarkable story of Sealand, a "micronation" on an eerie metal platform off the coast of England, tells us plenty about libertarianism, national sovereignty and the lawlessness of the ocean. PUTTING A FACE TO A MEME The Nigerian Film Stars Behind Some Of Twitter's Greatest Memes vulture.com In the good old days of Vine, one of the most popular clips was that of what appears to be a kid holding up a machete. The origin of these videos has remained obscure — except to those familiar with the Nigerian film industry, a.k.a. Nollywood. TAKING A PAGE FROM HER BOOK Thank God For The Sex I Found In My Mother's Romance Novels lithub.com My mom handed me the book without instructions. She was a children's librarian, and was always handing me books. This one was different only in that I had seen her with it before. This book had a purple cover with a man snaking his way around a woman. VIDEO OF THE DAY GEORGE THE GUITARIST Johnny Marr Pulls Fan On Stage To Play 'This Charming Man,' Fan Absolutely Crushes It digg.com Marr told the fan, "You better be good, bro," and boy, he was. IN THE NEWS Miracle Escape As Russian Jet Crash-Lands In Field Outside Moscow After Striking Flock Of Gulls Autopsy Finds Broken Bones In Jeffrey Epstein's Neck, Deepening Questions Around His Death Philadelphia Shooting: Gunman Who Injured Six Surrenders After Stand-Off US Applies To Seize Iranian Tanker Held In Gibraltar DIGG PICKS Wear These Comfy Shoes Everywhere, And You'll Always Be Ready To Run huckberry.com Made with runners in mind, these shoes are designed to be breathable, supportive and quick to lace up snugly. If you're living an active lifestyle, a nice pair of these running shoes are well worth the investment. Do us a favor. Send a kind message to someone today. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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