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Creepy Algorithms

Social Networking: A Love Story, Sony And Mr. Kim's Thugs, Before It Was Everywhere, It Was In The New Yorker, The Year We Get Creeped Out By Algorithms, What We Learned This Week, The Best Knife Sharpener Is A Car The Daily Digg Friday, December 19, 2014 CAUGHT IN THE INTERNET'S WEB Social Networking: A Love Story buzzfeed.com The Internet is IRL. It always has been. WE DESERVE TO SEE BAD MOVIES Sony And Mr. Kim's Thugs nytimes.com The decision to cancel the release of a movie in response to threats by North Korean hackers could embolden rogue regimes and criminals. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NEW YORKER SPONSORED Before It Was Everywhere, It Was In The New Yorker digg.com For the past few months, The New Yorker has opened up its archive, sharing some of the magazine's most memorable pieces. We decided to go deep into the archive to find everyday phrases and ideas that first appeared on the pages of the venerable publication. Feel free to use any and all of these as fun facts at your holiday parties. A GHOST IN THE MACHINE The Year We Get Creeped Out By Algorithms niemanlab.org Algorithmic judgment is the uncanny valley of computing. DIGG PICKS What We Learned This Week digg.com This week we learned how to hack our taste buds, the real problem with Hollywood and the horrible things that happen when you answer a spam ad for Viagra. A KEEN INVESTMENT The Best Knife Sharpener Is A Car digg.com As it so happens, you probably already own a knife sharpener. It multitasks as a vehicle. Read more on Digg.com → A RED-CAR DAY A woman waits in a classic American car that's used as a shared taxi by commuters in Havana, Cuba, early Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Don't Look Back In Anger

2014: The Year In Digg, Worrying About Stuff Is A Sign Of Intelligence, Still Looking For The Perfect Gift?, If You Cloned A Mammoth..., U.S. Links North Korea To Hacking, How Fast Are The TIE Fighters In 'Star Wars VII'? The Daily Digg Thursday, December 18, 2014 YEARS WE DIGG 2014: The Year In Digg digg.com It's been a wild one. IF YOU'RE REALLY SMART, YOU'D CHILL OUT Worrying About Stuff Is A Sign Of Intelligence nymag.com The tendency to worry about stuff could be a sign of a certain kind of intelligence. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Still Looking For The Perfect Gift? oysterbooks.com So you left holiday shopping until the last minute. No biggie. With Oyster, you're giving the gift of more than half a million books. And you don't even have to brave the mall crowds to give it. IT WOULDN'T BE A GLOBAL WARMING FAN If You Cloned A Mammoth... daily.jstor.org If a complete mammoth genome can be isolated from the well-preserved mammoth carcass discovered in Siberia last year, cloning is certainly possible, because the technology exists. HUH, GUESS IT WAS THEM ALL THIS TIME? U.S. Links North Korea To Hacking nytimes.com American intelligence officials have concluded that the North Korean government was "centrally involved" in the recent attacks on Sony Pictures's computers, a determination reached just as Sony on Wednesday canceled its release of the comedy, which is based on a plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader. MAYBE WE CAN LOSE THEM IN AN ASTEROID FIELD How Fast Are The TIE Fighters In 'Star Wars VII'? wired.com Will there be TIE Fighters in "Star Wars VII"? According to the trailer, yes. Now for the real questions: how fast are these TIE Fighters and how fast are their blaster bolts? Time for some video analysis using Tracker Video Analysis. Read more on Digg.com → KILL BILL A poster for the movie "The Interview" is taken down by a worker after being pulled from a display case at a Carmike Cinemas movie theater, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, in Atlanta. Georgia-based Carmike Cinemas has decided to cancel its planned showings of "The Interview" in the wake of threats against theatergoers by the Sony hackers. Credit: AP Photo/David Goldman Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Not So Funny Anymore

How To Feel Great, Sony May Pull 'The Interview' From Theaters, Get The Gift Of Slim, Inside The New Stealth Arsenal, Mother Calls In To C-SPAN To Yell At Her Pundit Sons, U.S. Will Bid For 2024 Olympics The Daily Digg Wednesday, December 17, 2014 THE NATURAL WAY How To Feel Great digg.typeform.com Zero out of five doctors agree that the trick to getting your day started right is filling out this survey on how to improve the Daily Digg. It won't help prevent any diseases or make you lose any weight, but you'll be able to walk around with your head held high knowing that you've helped a scrappy startup make this email even better. Can't you spare two minutes? You can? Great, thanks a lot! NOT SO FUNNY ANYMORE Sony May Pull 'The Interview' From Theaters hollywoodreporter.com As hackers issued new threats of violence on Tuesday, Sony Pictures began telling theater owners who had booked "The Interview" that they are free to drop the movie, and that the studio will support them whatever decision they make. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Get The Gift Of Slim bellroy.com It's not about how much money you spend this holiday season, it's how you look carrying it. Bellroy mixes form and function into its wallet, reducing pocket bulge. TOP GHOST GUNS Inside The New Stealth Arsenal popsci.com A top secret class of autonomous drones is changing the way war is being waged. 'OH GOD IT'S MOM' Mother Calls In To C-SPAN To Yell At Her Pundit Sons digg.com Brothers Brad and Dallas Woodhouse get an unexpected call from their mother during a "Washington Journal" appearance. CITY TO BE CHOSEN LATER U.S. Will Bid For 2024 Olympics chicagotribune.com The United States Olympic Committee has thrown a hat in the ring for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Read more on Digg.com → JUST A QUICK HIBERNATION Florin Bors, aged 8 from Bacau, northern Romania, wearing a bear fur takes a break from performing a holiday season ritual in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, touring house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. In recent years following the economic downturn in Romania, a European Union member since 2007, the tradition has moved to Romania's cities where dancers travel to perform the ritual for money. Credit: AP Photo/Octav Ganea, Mediafax Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014