When Goofy Met Donald

This Week's Best Memes, Ranked, They Bought Trendy 'Teacup Pigs.' Now They've Got Enormous Hogs, and more.

Digg Editions Morning · Sat, Aug 24

A GAME OF CHICKEN POP EYES POPIZE POPEYES 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 Popeyes' chicken sandwich, that one weird picture of Goofy and more. AT LEAST THEY'RE NOT FERAL They Bought Trendy 'Teacup Pigs.' Now They've Got Enormous Hogs melmagazine.com "From getting nightly snuggles from a 200-pound pig — quite literally hogging the bed — to having your sweet baby ejaculate for 10 solid minutes on your motorcycle." STAY SHARP Queen Of Darts victoryjournal.com There is a feel at the Dutch Open akin to the World Series of Poker—the hope, the collective desire, is that a complete unknown will make a madman-run to glory. In truth, all these pub-champs will be felled by the field's undeniable killers: England's Deta Hedman and Japan's Mikuru "The Miracle" Suzuki. DIGG PICKS These Laptops Aren't Trying To Run Fortnite, They're Just Here To Help You Pass History Class digg.com Head back to school with one of these four laptops that don't break the bank yet take care of business. PICTURE THIS A Dreamlike Love Letter To Stockholm, And More Of The Best Photography Of The Week digg.com Living on the edge of climate change in Miami, on vacation in Soviet-era sanatoriums and other best photos of the week. LOOKING FOR ANSWERS LOST ON THE SOUTH FACE Searching For Adolfo rockandice.com Adolfo Benegas and Eric Bender vanished without a trace on Aconcagua's South Face in 1990. After 29 years of searching, Benegas' brother has found plane wreckage, stranded climbers, other remains and even a haunting. What he hasn't found are answers. HANDS ON THE WHEEL This Uber Driver Started A Legal Battle That Could Upend The Gig Economy citylab.com Uber drivers in Europe and the US are fighting for access to their personal data. Whoever wins the lawsuit could get to reframe the terms of the gig economy. HELPING, NOT JAILING Seattle Has Figured Out How To End The War On Drugs nytimes.com While other cities are jailing drug users, Seattle has found another way. VIDEO OF THE DAY ONE VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE This Is Why It's Not A Good Idea To Go Down A Steel Slide In The Rain digg.com Now you see her. Now you don't. FROM THE DIGG STORE This Far-Reaching VPN Will Secure Your Internet Connection From Anywhere store.digg.com Trusted by more than one million users, PureVPN protects even public Wi-Fi connections through a self-managed VPN network. It has a wider reach (550+ servers nodes in 141 countries) and allows five simultaneous device connections. Get a 5-year subscription for 64% off today. We hope your weekend hits the bullseye. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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How To Lose 'Friends' And Not Influence People

The Great Seattle Pot Heist, Has Netflix Peaked?, and more.

Digg Editions Morning · Fri, Aug 23

ILL INTENTIONS REEFER BADNESS The Great Seattle Pot Heist politico.com A rash of marijuana thefts has Seattle growers wondering: Is the government leading the thieves right to them? A SCARY TRACK RECORD I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds Of Trackers Followed Me nytimes.com For several days this spring, I lived my life through this Invasive Firefox, which logged every site I visited, all the advertising tracking servers that were watching my surfing and all the data they obtained. 'IT WAS DONE TO INTIMIDATE' A Dead Cat, A Lawyer's Call And A Five-Figure Donation: How Media Fell Short On Epstein npr.org A coterie of intimidating lawyers. A bullet delivering a message. Even, it is alleged, a cat's severed head in the front yard of the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Such were the tools the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is said to have used to try to soften news coverage and at times stave off journalistic scrutiny altogether. CONS AND PROS A Couple Used A Doll To Fake A Baby's Birth And Death, And More Of The Week's Best Scam Stories digg.com A woman pretended to have cancer to have a £15,000 wedding, the student who manipulated her lonely high school teachers to cheat and more of this week's best scam and hoax stories. DIGG PICKS The Sega Genesis Mini Packs 40 Classic Games Into A Tiny Console digg.com Look back fondly on 16-bit classics ranging from "Alex Kidd" to "Earthworm Jim" to "Virtua Fighter 2." NOT WORTH A DAMN SHOW'S OVER Has Netflix Peaked? nymag.com Has Netflix lost its glow along with its "Friends"? Can it, in the long term, retain its streaming crown? Or is its atypical business model just a house of cards? DOESN'T MAKE THE GRADE The Great University Con: How The British Degree Lost Its Value newstatesman.com Never before has Britain had so many qualified graduates. And never before have their qualifications amounted to so little. 'FRANKLY, BORING' The Best One-Star Reviews Of The Seven Wonders Of The World washingtonpost.com The "new" Seven Wonders of the World attract millions of travelers every year. Some people are blown away by the sites, like the spectacular cloud forest that shrouds Machu Picchu or the exquisite marble carvings of the Taj Mahal. Others leave unimpressed by the so-called wonders and leave reviews on the Internet to prove it. VIDEO OF THE DAY BABY ON BOARD Taekwondo Instructor Tries To Show Little Girl How To Break A Board, And The Girl Takes Her Way Too Literally digg.com A little girl from Puerto Rico was ​having a little trouble on kicking through a board. IN THE NEWS David Koch, Billionaire Conservative Activist And Philanthropist, Dies At 79 Leaked Documents Show Brazil's Bolsonaro Has Grave Plans For Amazon Rainforest Qantas To Run Test Flights On World's Longest Route Europe To See Third Major Heat Wave This Summer, As Temperatures Soar From France To Scandinavia DIGG PICKS This Instant Coffee Is Actually Delicious huckberry.com We know, the instant coffee in the super market tastes awful. However, the folks at Verve are going above and beyond to deliver a craft instant coffee that real human beings would actually want to drink. Don't break a board, but do take a break this weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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Private Bezos, Reporting For Duty

A Cult-Like Frat Party For The Elite? This Photographer Looks Into The Conspiracies, Their Mothers Chose Donor Sperm. The Doctors Used Their Own, and more.

Digg Editions Morning · Thu, Aug 22

NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS SUMMER CAMP, BUT FOR THE ELITE A Cult-Like Frat Party For The Elite? This Photographer Looks Into The Conspiracies featureshoot.com Once a year, the enigmatic redwood forests of Monte Rio in Northern California host some of the most powerful people in the world, who meet for reasons nobody knows for sure. 'IN A WORD, GROSS' Their Mothers Chose Donor Sperm. The Doctors Used Their Own nytimes.com Scores of people born through artificial insemination have learned from DNA tests that their biological fathers were the doctors who performed the procedure. CLOUD OF SUSPICION How Amazon And Silicon Valley Seduced The Pentagon propublica.org Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price. MILLI VANILLI FOR THE GEN-Z SET How Artist Imposters And Fake Songs Sneak Onto Streaming Services pitchfork.com When songs leak on Spotify and Apple Music, illegal uploads can generate substantial royalty payments — but for whom? DIGG PICKS Digg Deals: Save Up To 30% On Fall Clothes And Outdoor Gear moosejaw.com Over at Moosejaw, you can save big on a wide selection of seasonal items during their fall sale. Jackets, camping accessories, running shoes and more are available at a discounted rate. CLAIMS TO FAME THE NUT SHOT 'You're The Guy With The Ball To The Crotch': The Inside Story Behind The Funniest Baseball Card Ever Made espn.com Keith Comstock played on four major league clubs as a journeyman reliever, but his professional career is most often remembered for one thing: a ball to the crotch. HAD THE LAST CACKLE The Curse Of Playing The Wicked Witch Of The West narratively.com After nearly dying while filming "The Wizard of Oz," Margaret Hamilton spent the rest of her career trying to escape her evil character's long shadow. THE TRAILBLAZER Did Venus Williams Ever Get Her Due? nytimes.com How the first Williams sister changed the course of women's tennis. VIDEO OF THE DAY STEP BY STEP Man Records His Every Treadmill Run As He Loses 42 Pounds Over The Course Of Eight Months digg.com His progress is heartening, and now if you'll excuse us, we have to go hit the gym. IN THE NEWS Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Drops Out Of Presidential Race South Korea Axes Pact To Share Military Intelligence With Japan VIDEO: First Dive To The Titanic Wreckage In 15 Years Reveals How Quickly The Ship Is Deteriorating Apple Warns You May 'Permanently' Discolor Your Apple Card If It's Stored In Leather 'I Am The Chosen One,' Trump Proclaims As He Defends Trade War With China DIGG PICKS If Klimt And Van Gogh Posters Were Banned From Dorm Rooms Tomorrow, You Could Hang These Things On Your Walls Instead digg.com Know the time, dream about the Tetons, leave a note, and insult like Swift with these picks for your dorm room walls. Stay healthy, folks. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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