Spreading Holiday Fear

What Is Boxing Day?, When A Rocket Launch Is A Cultural Event, The Procrastinator's Gift Guide, The Best Articles Of The Week: Bieber's Church And Rule 34, A Screenshot Is Worth A Thousand Words, All The Ways Christmas Tries To Kill You The Daily Digg Thursday, December 24, 2015 DOES NOT INVOLVE FISTFIGHTS What Is Boxing Day? digg.com In the United Kingdom — and many former colonies of England — Boxing Day, December 26, is a national holiday, yet its origins are still highly debated. Here's what we know. THE BLAST OFF HEARD ROUND THE WORLD When A Rocket Launch Is A Cultural Event theatlantic.com SpaceX's broadcast brought a different tone to space exploration. FROM THE DIGG STORE The Procrastinator's Gift Guide store.digg.com Surprise! It's nearly Christmas. And you don't have anyone's gifts yet. Lucky for you, we've pulled together some kick-ass digital gifts that will help you save face come Christmas morning. WHAT WE'RE READING OVER THE HOLIDAYS The Best Articles Of The Week: Bieber's Church And Rule 34 digg.com Among the faithful at the church of choice A-list celebrities, how the Internet perverts everything we create, and more. HOW TO MAKE YOUR MAC SAY CHEESE A Screenshot Is Worth A Thousand Words macstories.net The screenshot app market is fascinating. Although most apps address one of a couple basic problems, execution varies widely and there are gaps in functionality. As a result, the screenshot app category is fragmented, but in a good way, leaving room for interesting solutions from clever developers. SPREADING HOLIDAY FEAR All The Ways Christmas Tries To Kill You fivethirtyeight.com Each year, people head to emergency rooms with holiday-related injuries by the thousands. Get more stories on Digg.com RUMOR HAS IT HE'S A LOOSE CANNON ​Detroit Police "Chief for a Day" Carter Widmer, 7, arrives at the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015, in Detroit. Widmer donated $250 of his Christmas money to the Detroit Police K-9 Unit. Credit: John T. Greilick/Detroit News via AP Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

Punk Is Now Actually Dead

2015: The Year In Digg, Crossing The Tundra With Siberia's Reindeer Herders, The KKK Used To Be A Pyramid Scheme, How To Look Punk: A Ridiculous 1977 Guide For Wannabes Anarchists, UFC Porn Is Real And It's Spectacular, Why Does The World Hate Mast Brothers Chocolate? The Daily Digg Wednesday, December 23, 2015 THE TASTIEST CONTENT 2015: The Year In Digg digg.com We at Digg take great pride in finding the Internet's tastiest content. Every day, we lap it all up — news stories, longform, videos, Vines and so on — then spit back only the good stuff. So here's a summary of what got the tongues wagging this year. BLITZEN TRAPPERS Crossing The Tundra With Siberia's Reindeer Herders buzzfeed.com Long before Santa first hitched Rudolph to his sleigh, reindeer served a much less whimsical role: dinner. COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED TO A NICER BUNCH The KKK Used To Be A Pyramid Scheme priceonomics.com In its heyday, the KKK was a giant, perverse pyramid scheme. Instead of perpetrating a racist agenda, the KKK's leaders exploited pre-existing, popular racism to make money. OKAY, NOW PUNK IS DEAD How To Look Punk: A Ridiculous 1977 Guide For Wannabes Anarchists flashbak.com Punk always had a hard commercial edge. Punk sold. And that meant getting the punk look. You too could look rebellious, anarchic and stick two fingers up to everyone else by, er, looking like whatshisface off the telly. FACELOCKS JUST GOT HOTTER UFC Porn Is Real And It's Spectacular vocativ.com Going deep into the fascinating world of fight-themed pornography. THEIR BEARDS? Why Does The World Hate Mast Brothers Chocolate? digg.com A few weeks back, a Dallas food site dropped a massive, multi-part expos​é about Mast Brothers Chocolate Makers, revealing that the company has not always produced the fancy-schmancy "bean-to-bar" chocolate it claims to sell. And now people are angry. What the heck is going on? Get more stories on Digg.com WINTER MIRRORLAND The Moscow GUM State Department store decorated with New Year and Christmas illumination reflected in a wall of a skating rink at Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. It's usually the cold that's bitter in Moscow in December, but this year it's the humor that bites during an unusual warm spell and temperatures climbed as high as 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit). In the Russian capital in recent days, a joke began circulating on the Internet: This was nature's compensation for Russians being unable to take vacations in Egypt and Turkey this year — two top destinations for Russian winter holidays. Credit: AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

What Could Go Wrong On A Spacewalk?

Donald Trump And The Check That Should Have Changed Football Forever, Is Bitcoin The Future Of Money? Talk To The Expert, How To Start A Startup, The Strange Origins Of Success For Marc Maron And His 'WTF' Podcast, VIDEO: SpaceX Launched And Landed Its Falcon 9 Rocket Last Night, What Could Possibly Go Wrong On A Spacewalk? The Daily Digg Tuesday, December 22, 2015 IN A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN Donald Trump And The Check That Should Have Changed Football Forever sports.vice.com Long before Donald Trump was America's most notoriously self-interested presidential candidate, he was the notoriously self-interested owner of the New Jersey Generals. DIGG DIALOG Is Bitcoin The Future Of Money? Talk To The Expert digg.com Currency has gone from cows to coins to paper to plastic. The next big disruption? We could all be spending digital dough. Kashmir Hill wrote about Bitcoin as part of Popular Science's "Future Of Money" series. She'll be live here today at 1pm EST to talk about her story and what it was like living on *just* Bitcoin. Check out the story and leave your comments now! FROM THE DIGG STORE How To Start A Startup store.digg.com Everything you need to know about successfully launching a tech company, all bundled up in one deeply discounted package. GLAD THEY DIDN'T LOCK THE GATES ON HIM The Strange Origins Of Success For Marc Maron And His 'WTF' Podcast theatlantic.com The star podcaster's success is rooted in his early-career failure and despair. THE FALCON HAS LANDED VIDEO: SpaceX Launched And Landed Its Falcon 9 Rocket Last Night digg.com After three attempts, SpaceX finally launched and landed its Falcon 9 rocket. The awesome footage was worth the wait. FOR STARTERS, ALIENS What Could Possibly Go Wrong On A Spacewalk? bbc.com On Monday, astronauts on the International Space Station carried out a spacewalk in order to perform repairs. Everything went according to plan, but leaving the safety of the station is extremely dangerous and things can go wrong. What do astronauts have to watch out for? Get more stories on Digg.com MAKES YOUR HOLIDAY TRAVEL LOOK EASY Aymara indigenous women descend the Huayna Potosi mountain with their husbands, who work as professional guides, on the outskirts of El Alto, Bolivia. Eleven women, ranging in age from 20 to 50 years old, made the two-day climb up the mountain. All of the women work as porters and cooks at the base camp, but six of the youngest ones would like to eventually join the ranks of the men and guide tourists to the peak.​ Credit: AP Photo/Juan Karita Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

Your Childhood Crush On Raffi Was Valid

Finding Raffi — The World's Most Famous Children's Singer, The Strongest Supercomputer On Earth Needs Your Laptop To Cure Cancer, Remember When Renting Cars Used To Be Awful?, VIDEO: Steve Harvey Announces Wrong Winner At Miss Universe Pageant, The Ground Is Broken And Wobbly, And Other News, One Local Reporter's Journey To Catch A Killer The Daily Digg Monday, December 21, 2015 THE VOICE OF A GENERATION Finding Raffi — The World's Most Famous Children's Singer vulture.com The wondrous — and occasionally weird — relationship between the children's-music superstar, his fans, and the man he used to be. DIGG DIALOG The Strongest Supercomputer On Earth Needs Your Laptop To Cure Cancer digg.com Johnnie Chamberlin wrote about why volunteer computing and BOINC — once the future of research — are an ocean of unrealized promise. Read the story and come talk to Johnnie on Digg today at 12pm EST. APPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Remember When Renting Cars Used To Be Awful? skurtapp.com Of miserable things to do, renting cars was right up there with DMV visits and figuring out how to file your taxes. At least, before Skurt. The on-demand car rental service delivers rides right to you and even offers curbside pickup at the airport. No paperwork, no crazy overages and rates up to 50% cheaper than other rental companies. Get $50 off your first rental ($10/day up to 5 days) with the code DIGG. UNIVERSAL EMBARRASSMENT VIDEO: Steve Harvey Announces Wrong Winner At Miss Universe Pageant digg.com Steve Harvey, host of Miss Universe 2015, incorrectly announced Miss Colombia as the winner and Miss Philippines as the first runner-up. He then had to interrupt Miss Colombia's celebration to correct his mistake. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND The Ground Is Broken And Wobbly, And Other News digg.com While you were frantically navigating through throngs of fellow Christmas-shopping procrastinators this weekend, the Internet kept on burning like a yule log miracle. Catch up on what happened: a magic homemade expanding table appeared, we mourned the loss of the Esurance mascot, and triangles proved that they were cool again. HUNTING FOR MORE THAN A STORY One Local Reporter's Journey To Catch A Killer bbc.com After a long career in television, Bill Proctor could have spent his retirement out of the spotlight. Instead, he has been trying to track a killer. Get more stories on Digg.com DUDES WITH FEATHERS FLOCK TOGETHER ​Dressed in traditional costumes, residents of Kisumu participate in a procession with a herd of cattle as they perform a ritual known as Tero Buru. Credit: AP Photo/James Kayee Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002