Swing And A Miss

The Sorry State Of Hitting In Modern Baseball, Cheese Changed The Course Of Western Civilization And Other Facts, The Quartz Daily Brief: Everything You Should Know About the World, in Five Minutes, What Exactly Is Neoliberalism?, Sweet Beats Made From The Sounds Of A Car Factory, The Horror Of Amazon's New Dash Button The Daily Digg Friday, April 3, 2015 SLUGGISH SLUGGING The Sorry State Of Hitting In Modern Baseball nytimes.com The question for Rob Manfred, as he begins his first season as commissioner of Major League Baseball, is whether he should find ways to legally boost offense. Many hitters would welcome a stimulus package, of sorts, in an age when every new edge seems to benefit pitchers. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Cheese Changed The Course Of Western Civilization And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that cheese culture shaped western civilization, wasps are no match for a shop vac and 7:00 p.m. is everyone's favorite time of day. PARTNER WE DIGG SPONSORED The Quartz Daily Brief: Everything You Should Know About the World, in Five Minutes qz.com Being a responsible, informed person doesn't have to be boring. The Quartz Daily Brief email feels like it was written by that one weird, smart friend of yours who can tell you all about the Nigerian elections and somehow knows about the existence of a dating site specifically for UFO believers. Sign up here. IT'S THE ECONOMY, SORT OF What Exactly Is Neoliberalism? dissentmagazine.org Climate change, a crippled welfare state, the 2008 financial crisis, skyrocketing income inequality, political disappointments reaching back decades, terrible superhero movies grossing billions of dollars, and Tinder—these are just a few of the sins attributed to neoliberalism. But what exactly is it? WAIT FOR THE DROP TOP Sweet Beats Made From The Sounds Of A Car Factory digg.com This is how you do branded content: make it stuff you'd like anyway. STRAIGHT FROM THE MIND OF GEORGE SAUNDERS The Horror Of Amazon's New Dash Button newyorker.com Shopping should make you feel bad, if only for a second. Pressing a little plastic button is too much fun. Get more stories on Digg.com → HOPEFULLY NOT HIS FIRST RODEO A South American cowboy known as a gaucho tries not to be thrown off a wild horse during the Criolla del Prado rodeo in Montevideo, Uruguay,Thursday, April 2, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico 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

Take The Money And Run

Welcome To The Outrage Machine, 'Unquestionable Greed' — The Startup CEO Who Stole $765k From His Friends, Broken Men And Their Broken System, Here's How Much Water California Needs To Save This Year, Why We Need The Veto, When A Brand's April Fools' Day Prank Is Just A Lie The Daily Digg Thursday, April 2, 2015 GOOD LUCK GETTING OUT Welcome To The Outrage Machine digg.com On this week's Reply All — how quickly, easily, and thoroughly the Internet can ruin someone.​ TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN 'Unquestionable Greed' — The Startup CEO Who Stole $765k From His Friends arstechnica.com Jon Mills had moved to California five years ago with a dream to hit it big in Silicon Valley. The company he founded, Motionloft, uses small sensors to perform analytics on in-store foot traffic. Everything worked. The company continues to succeed, and celebrity venture capitalist Mark Cuban remains its sole investor. But that success wasn't enough. PERSONNEL FOUL Broken Men And Their Broken System medium.com The NFL is doing a great disservice to its ex-players. What's worse, the situation is an avoidable one. NO MORE BATHS, CALIFORNIA Here's How Much Water California Needs To Save This Year wired.com To put it one way, roughly the same volume as 1,766 Empire State Buildings. VETO POWER POWER Why We Need The Veto politico.com How else will we know what our politicians really think? CHUTE THE SHIT When A Brand's April Fools' Day Prank Is Just A Lie dailydot.com This year marketing company Boogie tried their hand at a "prank" that wasn't very funny. The agency created a landing page and a brand design for an application called Chute that supposedly protects your phone from shattering when dropped on the ground. Get more stories on Digg.com → PARTY CRASHERS A pigeon dips its head in a water fountain as they take a bath in suburban Quezon city, east of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Aaron Favila 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

A Guide To Defeating Robotic Swarms

A Guide To Defeating Robotic Swarms, That Musky Smell, VIDEO: And That's How You Escape A Tow Truck, Collective Independents, Public Shamings, The Hidden Consequences Of Low Oil Prices The Daily Digg Wednesday, April 1, 2015 TRY PLAYING 'TIME CRISIS 4' A Guide To Defeating Robotic Swarms warontherocks.com While swarming provides numerous opportunities to expand U.S. combat effectiveness by enabling greater range, persistence, daring, mass, coordination, intelligence, and speed on the battlefield, it may be enemy swarms that are the real game-changer. I MUSK HAVE IT That Musky Smell todayifoundout.com Prized since ancient times for its alluring fragrance, today musk can mean any of a number of substances used to scent perfumes. However, while in our modern era most musk is synthetically produced, when it first came on the scene, musk was only found in a scrotum-like sac on the bellies of male musk deer. ♫ I WANT TO BREAK FREEEE ♫ VIDEO: And That's How You Escape A Tow Truck digg.com Getting towed sucks. So instead of following alternate side parking rules, just buy a car that can overpower a tow truck. SOLITARY CONFUNMENT Collective Independents maisonneuve.org For the first time in Canadian history, homes with a single occupant outnumber those with nuclear families. On the new domestic frontier. PRIDE GOETH BEFORE JAIL TIME Public Shamings themarshallproject.org Why judges sometimes opt for sandwich boards, chicken suits, and other embarrassing punishments. THE RIG IS UP The Hidden Consequences Of Low Oil Prices theatlantic.com From Russia to your local gas station, the consequences of low fuel prices are clear. But the consequences of those consequences are less apparent. Get more stories on Digg.com → GOTTA HAND IT TO HER Faith Lennox, 7, left, shows her mother Nicole her newly 3-D printed hand at the Build it Workspace in Los Alamitos, Calif., on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Build It Workspace is a 3-D printer studio that teaches people to use high-tech printers and provides access to them for projects. Faith's new hand is the result of an emerging technology that is revolutionizing prosthetics, said Build It's Mark Lengsfeld, especially for children like Faith, who quickly outgrow expensive prosthetic limbs and have trouble even using them because of their size and weight. Credit: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes 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

Hive Seen Better Days

Why An Imperfect Version Of Proust Is A Classic In English, VIDEO: How To Remove A Wasp Infestation With A Shop Vac, Having A Threesome Is Harder Than It Looks, How It Feels To Be Circumcised As An Adult, New ARM-Powered Chip Aims For Battery Life Measured In Decades, GLaDOS And The Sniper: A Voice Acting Love Story The Daily Digg Tuesday, March 31, 2015 IN SEARCH OF LOST WORDS Why An Imperfect Version Of Proust Is A Classic In English newyorker.com Mostly thanks to C. K. Scott Montcrieff, Proust is part of the common reader's experience in English. But the ease of Moncrieff's translations also started a fistfight, ongoing, about whether his Proust is Proust, near Proust, Anglicized Proust, or not Proust at all. BUG HOLOCAUST VIDEO: How To Remove A Wasp Infestation With A Shop Vac digg.com With a shop vac, some water, dish soap and a bit of scaffolding you can get rid of an entire (extremely angry) yellowjacket or wasp colony without using chemicals. Skip to 4:10 for the aftermath/carnage. UNDERWEAR WE DIGG SPONSORED Having A Threesome Is Harder Than It Looks meundies.com Okay, it already looks kind of hard, but seriously, a lot more goes into a threesome than just three sets of genitals. Don't believe us? Check it out for yourself. NO ONE'S FORESKIN YOU TO DO IT How It Feels To Be Circumcised As An Adult vice.com There are three reasons a man gets circumcised after infancy: for cosmetic reasons, for medical reasons, or as part of a religious rite of passage. CHARGING AHEAD New ARM-Powered Chip Aims For Battery Life Measured In Decades arstechnica.com The number of things getting plugged into the "Internet of Things" has already reached the point of satire. But there's a new, extremely low power technology that's being prepared for market that could put computing power and network access into a whole new class of sensors, wearables and practically disposable devices. THE WEDDING CAKE IS A LIE GLaDOS And The Sniper: A Voice Acting Love Story motherboard.vice.com Ellen and John, both 62, are arguably the original voice actor celebrities in a medium that has long been stingy in knighting any of its creative personnel with recognition. Get more stories on Digg.com → AFTER THE DELUGE Kashmiri women wail and rush towards the body of a relative, victim of a landslide, as the same is recovered in the village of Laden some 45 Kilometers (28 miles) west of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Monday, March 30, 2015. Hundreds of Kashmiris in both India and Pakistan moved to higher ground Monday as rain-swollen rivers swamped parts of the disputed Himalayan region placed under an emergency flood alert just six months after some 600 people died in flooding that left the region in shambles. Credit: AP Photo/Dar Yasin 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

Country Rules Everything Around Me

Why Country Rules the Airwaves, 'Hey, At Least We're Not The Mafia', Getting Out Of Jail Free, And Other News, VIDEO: Israeli Students Built A Rube Goldberg Machine Of Biblical Proportions To Celebrate Passover, Six Seconds That Shaped 1,500 Songs, The FBI Would Like Us All To Unencrypt Our Phones The Daily Digg Monday, March 30, 2015 IT'S THEIR COUNTRY, WE'RE JUST LIVING IN IT Why Country Rules the Airwaves wired.com It wasn't inevitable that country music would thrive in the globalized world of perpetual Facebook updates, a world whose frenetic pace can be felt in electronica, or whose nouveau riche aspirations are extolled in hip-hop. But here we are. WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY 'Hey, At Least We're Not The Mafia' medium.com Payday lenders have a horrifying — yet effective  — approach to lobbying. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Getting Out Of Jail Free, And Other News digg.com The inmates ran the asylum, the modern cowboy spoke, and the government shackled our llamas. PUTTING MATZO TO GOOD USE VIDEO: Israeli Students Built A Rube Goldberg Machine Of Biblical Proportions To Celebrate Passover digg.com What better way to commemorate the Passover then by recreating the story in a giant Rube Goldberg machine? Don't worry, the Plague of Blood and Plague of Frogs don't seem to be real. THE UR-SAMPLE Six Seconds That Shaped 1,500 Songs bbc.com "Amen, Brother" was a little-known B-side released in 1969. Barely noticed at the time, its drum solo has been hugely influential, appearing in different forms in more than 1,500 other songs — but the band behind it never made any money from it. PLEASE AND THANK YOU The FBI Would Like Us All To Unencrypt Our Phones gizmodo.com When Apple decided to encrypt its iPhones by default, the move was hailed as a major step forward for security. Except, of course, by the FBI, which is now saying that such encryption should be outlawed. For the safety of Americans, of course. Get more stories on Digg.com → GHOST STORIES A hooded penitent from"La Borriquita" brotherhood takes part during a Holy Week procession in Cordoba, Spain, Sunday, March 29, 2015. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. Credit: AP Photo/Manu Fernandez 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