The Mating Screams Of Algorithms

The Real Teens of Silicon Valley, The Mating Screams Of Algorithms And Other Facts, Make A Touchpad Out Of Anything, Matthew Weiner, The Creator of 'Mad Men,' Prepares For Another Fade To Black, VIDEO: A Flame-Belching, Jet-Powered Go Kart, Tess Holliday Is The Biggest Thing Ever To Happen To Modeling The Daily Digg Friday, May 15, 2015 TEEN DAZE The Real Teens of Silicon Valley californiasunday.com Inside the almost-adult lives of the industry's newest recruits. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK The Mating Screams Of Algorithms And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that machines can synthesize the roars of unknowable beasts, a brilliant way to make drawers and the many design flaws of the human body. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Make A Touchpad Out Of Anything littlebits.cc The Makey Makey Bit turns everyday objects into touchpads to control your computer and your littleBits circuits. Touch a banana to turn on an LED, splash water to move a servo motor, clap to take a picture with your computer's camera, or turn a watermelon into a bass drum. The world is your Bit with Makey Makey. 'MAD MEN' IS A PLAY ON 'AD MEN' Matthew Weiner, The Creator of 'Mad Men,' Prepares For Another Fade To Black nytimes.com It took almost 55 years, but the 1960s are finally over. 60 MPH AND NO WINDSHIELD VIDEO: A Flame-Belching, Jet-Powered Go Kart digg.com Something about this feels unsafe but we can't quite put our fingers on it. MODEL BEHAVIOR Tess Holliday Is The Biggest Thing Ever To Happen To Modeling buzzfeed.com At size 22, Tess Holliday is the largest model ever signed by a major agency. Can she spin her social media stardom into a career in the high-stakes (and notoriously body-conscious) modeling world? Get more stories on Digg.com → EXERCISING HIS SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, left, and five-time heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield shake hands after an official weigh-in Thursday, May 14, 2015, in Holladay, Utah. Romney and Holyfield are set to square off at a charity fight on Friday, May 15, in Salt Lake City. The black-tie event will raise money for the Utah-based organization CharityVision, which helps doctors in developing countries perform surgeries to restore vision in people with curable blindness. Credit: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer 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

Your Very Own Country

The Hasidim Building A Kosher Corner Of The Internet, Digg Summarizes The Things You Didn't Have Time To Read, Takeoff: The Oral History Of Nirvana's Crossover Moment, How To Take Over A Small Country In 10 Easy Steps, 'I Am Not Backing Off Anything I Said', The Best Signs You May Have Missed In 'The Simpsons' The Daily Digg Thursday, May 14, 2015 'ALL THAT IS NEW IS FORBIDDEN' The Hasidim Building A Kosher Corner Of The Internet digg.com On this week's episode of the Reply All podcast, the second part to a story about the Internet encroaching on a world that has managed pretty successfully to block it out — New York's Ultra Orthodox Jewish community. TOXIC PEDICURES AND FROZEN HEADS Digg Summarizes The Things You Didn't Have Time To Read digg.com Welcome to the Long-Reader's Digest, a weekly column where we'll give you a taste of the best new long-form journalism on the Internet. REACHING NIRVANA Takeoff: The Oral History Of Nirvana's Crossover Moment medium.com A defining period of Kurt Cobain's legacy, as told by the underground bands that witnessed it firsthand PLEASE DON'T DO THIS How To Take Over A Small Country In 10 Easy Steps warontherocks.com Mercenaries are back! After a three-century hiatus, sensible people are once again realizing that renting an army is cheaper than owning one. It's boom time, boys! But why work for someone when you could be king? AN INTERVIEW WITH SEYMOUR HERSH 'I Am Not Backing Off Anything I Said' slate.com Hersh's bin Laden story has been much debated over the past several days, with many calling it into question and (a comparable few) others applauding its willingness to undercut the official narrative. DO IT FOR HER The Best Signs You May Have Missed In 'The Simpsons' digg.com ​The great thing about "The Simpsons" is that you catch something new and awesome every time you re-watch an episode. For instance, a lot of really great signs. Get more stories on Digg.com → INDIANAPOLIS, WE HAVE LIFTOFF The car driven by Helio Castroneves, of Brazil, is airborne after hitting the wall in the first turn during practice for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Joe Watts 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

Flies In His Eyes

New York City's Island Of Death, Should You Believe Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Seymour Hersh?, VIDEO: Two Lunatics Fly Jetpacks Over Dubai, In 4K, The Puzzle Of Fruit Fly Individuality, A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art, The Male Suicides: How Social Perfectionism Kills The Daily Digg Wednesday, May 13, 2015 NOT STATEN ISLAND New York City's Island Of Death failedarchitecture.com Hart Island, the city's graveyard for unclaimed bodies, holds many stories, myths, and visions. Can the most recent plan, of turning it into a public park, become reality? WHY WAS THIS A STORY? Should You Believe Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Seymour Hersh? digg.com A recent story published by legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh calls into question everything we know about the killing of Osama bin Laden. But is it accurate? BUZZ FLIGHTYEAR VIDEO: Two Lunatics Fly Jetpacks Over Dubai, In 4K digg.com It's 2015 and we thought we'd have jetpacks by now, and it turns out we do — you just need to be crazy to fly them. Luckily Yves Rossy and his protege Vince Reffet are trained professionals. NOT ALL FLIES The Puzzle Of Fruit Fly Individuality quantamagazine.org Genetically identical fruit flies raised under the same conditions are creating a biological map of what makes individuals unique. EMBRACING THE NEW MEDIUM A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art dinofarmgames.com Pixel art once held immense value for developers and game designers. By strategically grouping colors and observing their relationships, more complex shapes and forms could be implied and executed with an extremely limited tool set . However the presence of, and preference for, HD has now made pixel art commercially (not aesthetically) obsolete. FATAL FLAWS The Male Suicides: How Social Perfectionism Kills digg.com Why do male suicides outnumber female in every country in the world? Get more stories on Digg.com → STRONGHOLD NO MORE Smoke rises from Al-Qahira castle, an ancient fortress that was recently taken over by Shiite rebels, following a Saudi-led airstrike in Taiz city, Yemen, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition kept up their airstrikes in Yemen on Tuesday, targeting the positions of Shiite rebels and their allies just hours ahead of the scheduled start of a five-day humanitarian cease-fire. Credit: AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik 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

Brainfreeze!

I Freeze People's Brains For A Living, Weird Old Bar Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, VIDEO: Take Your Bets On The Winner Of This Surprisingly Tense Marble Race, What You Need To Know About The Laws Of Space, No One Seems To Know Who — Or What — Is Poisoning North Carolina Drinking Water Supplies, The Science Of Scarcity The Daily Digg Tuesday, May 12, 2015 DR. FEELNOTHING I Freeze People's Brains For A Living hopesandfears.com If we see that they're getting closer to death, like a day or two out, we might try to get the equipment even closer to their bed. When they finally stop breathing, the heart stops, and the doctor pronounces them dead, then we take over. YE OLDE GAMES Weird Old Bar Games You've Probably Never Heard Of digg.com Since the invention of the modern day party and the modern day bar, people have been gathering in private or in public to prove their worth against their friends and foes in games of skill and chance. Here's how it all began. RED VS BLUE VIDEO: Take Your Bets On The Winner Of This Surprisingly Tense Marble Race digg.com It's blue ahead by a mile! Now red is rounding the inside corner trying to take the lead! Who will roll away victorious? G IS FOR GRAVITY What You Need To Know About The Laws Of Space engadget.com Neil deGrasse Tyson has said he loses "sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe." It's a valid concern. We've put a man on the moon, landed on a comet and roved around on Mars, but it's really only the tip of the iceberg. There's so much that we haven't seen and don't know, it seems almost impossible to fully understand the universe. A MYSTERIOUSLY POTENT POTABLE No One Seems To Know Who — Or What — Is Poisoning North Carolina Drinking Water Supplies news.vice.com What seems like a clear case of an energy company polluting people's drinking wells in North Carolina is actually much more complicated, thanks to the state's rock formations. LESS IS NOT MORE The Science Of Scarcity harvardmagazine.com A behavioral economist's fresh perspectives on poverty. Get more stories on Digg.com → DOESN'T LOOK A DAY OVER 1,8000 Boys with newly shaved heads put their hands together after a service to celebrate Buddha's upcoming birthday at Jogye Temple in Seoul, South Korea Monday, May 11, 2015. Nine children entered the temple to have an experience of monks' life for two weeks. Credit: AP Photo/Lee Jin-man 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

Vice City

A Border Town Built For Vice, Suicidal Animals, And Other News, Remember How You Said You Wanted To Start Saving More Money? Yeah, This Will Help, VIDEO: You Can Levitate A Screwdriver With Compressed Air And It Is Magical, Steven King's 'The Stand' Is Bloated, Racist, And (Somehow) Still A Masterpiece, The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden The Daily Digg Monday, May 11, 2015 VICE CITY A Border Town Built For Vice narrative.ly Along the murky border of China and Myanmar, the stringent morals of both countries give way to a no-man's-land where prostitution is unchecked, gambling is rampant, and the tiger bone wine flows freely. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Suicidal Animals, And Other News digg.com Can animals kill themselves? Is faster-than-light travel ever coming? And why is tech erotica a thing? STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Remember How You Said You Wanted To Start Saving More Money? Yeah, This Will Help digit.co Mo' money mo' problems? Yeah, less money mo' problems, too. That's why we use Digit to help us save cash automatically. It's a stress-free way of dealing with a stressful problem. BLOWING OUR MINDS, LITERALLY VIDEO: You Can Levitate A Screwdriver With Compressed Air And It Is Magical digg.com If we tried this, someone would end up with a terrible puncture wound. HORROR SHOW Steven King's 'The Stand' Is Bloated, Racist, And (Somehow) Still A Masterpiece uproxx.com In 2008, a Harris Poll named "The Stand" as the fifth-favorite book of all time by American readers, four spots below the Bible, two spots above "To Kill a Mockingbird." So, we're not simply talking about a career highlight of a best-selling genre-writer. We're talking about one of the most influential books in the history of the English language. A SECRET HISTORY The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden lrb.co.uk Famed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh — who uncovered the Vietnam War's My Lai Massacre and the cover-up that followed — is thoroughly unconvinced by the White House's narrative around the death of Osama Bin Laden. Get more stories on Digg.com → PRIMARY COLORS A boy watches as another boy play with balls, during a sandstorm in Kashgar city in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Sunday, May 10, 2015. Credit: Chinatopix Via AP 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