When In Doubt, Make A World War II Movie

Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy, Best-Picture Math, Put A Propeller On It: The Golden Age Of Tinkering, How Was The Most Massive Object In The Universe Created?, Can You Solve This? The Daily Digg Tuesday, February 25, 2014 GLENN GREENWALD EXPLAINS Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy firstlook.org One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how Western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It's time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents. WHEN IN DOUBT, MAKE A WORLD WAR II MOVIE Best-Picture Math vanityfair.com Data crunching may not help Oscar-hungry producers or office-pool bettors. Still, the themes, motifs, and plots from 85 years of best-picture-nominated movies do tell a story. MAD PROPS Put A Propeller On It: The Golden Age Of Tinkering theappendix.net Once upon a time, motorcycles, trains, and even UFOs were driven by propellers. Personal flying machines roamed the streets of Paris, and people were afraid that marauding anarchist Zeppelins might destroy their cities. No, it's not a steam punk novel. It was the turn of the Twentieth Century, and the golden age of tinkering. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS How Was The Most Massive Object In The Universe Created? nautil.us The galaxy known prosaically as M87 doesn't look like much. The source of a jet emanating from that galaxy is far from prosaic, however: It's a black hole 6.6 billion times the mass of the Sun. SURPRISE, IT'S NOT THE OBVIOUS ANSWER Can You Solve This? digg.com Can you figure out the rule behind this sequence of three numbers? Read more on Digg.com → BUT DOES SHE HAVE HER SOMETHING BLUE? A Bulgarian Muslim bride Kadrie Avdikova has her face decorated with a special wedding makeup at the end of a two-day wedding ceremony in the Rhodope Mountains village of Ribnovo, 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of capital Sofia, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. The remote mountain village of Ribnovo in southwest Bulgaria has kept its traditional winter marriage ceremony alive despite decades of Communist persecution, followed by poverty that forced many men to seek work abroad. The wedding ritual was resurrected with vigor among the Pomaks - Slavs who converted to Islam under Ottoman rule. The highlight of the ceremony is the painting of the bride's face, where in a private rite, her face is covered in thick, chalky white paint and decorated with colorful sequins. Credit: AP: Valentina Petrova Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

We'll Always Have Billy

I Give Up, And Here's The 'Super Mario'/'Seinfeld' Parody Nobody Expected, How The World's Next Tallest Building Will Be Built, Breaking Down The Five Documentary Shorts Nominated For An Oscar, Whole Foods: America's Temple Of Pseudoscience The Daily Digg Monday, February 24, 2014 WELL WE STILL HAVE BILLY I Give Up vulture.com Alec Baldwin on his personal travails over the last year, including his run-ins with the paparazzi, being called a homophobe, and the problems with our new media culture, where "you are measured by who you are on your worst day." IT'S-A-NOT YOU, IT'S-A-ME, MARIO! And Here's The 'Super Mario'/'Seinfeld' Parody Nobody Expected digg.com Whaaat's the deal with this? No seriously, what's the deal with it? PROBABLY WITH UNDERPAID LABOR How The World's Next Tallest Building Will Be Built gizmodo.com Engineers on the Kingdom Tower, a proposed 3,280 foot tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, are beginning tests to figure out how to pump wet concrete more than half a mile into the sky. EVEN SHORTER VERSIONS Breaking Down The Five Documentary Shorts Nominated For An Oscar kgosztola.tumblr.com Each year five short documentary films are nominated for an Academy Award, but only a limited number of Americans ever get the opportunity to view them. BULLSH*T NEVER TASTED SO GOOD Whole Foods: America's Temple Of Pseudoscience thedailybeast.com Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods. It's all pseudoscience — so why are some kinds of pseudoscience more equal than others? Read more on Digg.com → SPARKS FLY Kyle Larson (42) starts a multi-car collision between Turn 3 and Turn 4 with Austin Dillon (3), Jamie McMurray (1), Casey Mears, Marcos Ambrose (9), Kasey Kahne (5), Michael Annett (7) and Brain Vickers (55) during the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

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Death Sells (And Everyone's Buying)

How To Win 'Jeopardy!', The Art Of Persuasion, Explained In 59 Seconds, The Day We Pretended To Care About Ukraine, Muscle Made From Fishing Wire Is 100x Stronger Than Yours, Old Time Farm Crime: The Opium Wars The Daily Digg Friday, February 21, 2014 LUCK AND A QUICK THUMB How To Win 'Jeopardy!' psmag.com Answer: Win this show and the general population will believe you are smart. Question: "What is Jeopardy!"? DO US THIS ONE FAVOR The Art Of Persuasion, Explained In 59 Seconds digg.com ...and that's how fascism starts. DEATH SELLS (AND EVERYONE'S BUYING) The Day We Pretended To Care About Ukraine politico.com What does our addiction to disaster porn say about us? WHAT A CATCH Muscle Made From Fishing Wire Is 100x Stronger Than Yours gizmodo.com A research team led by University of Texas at Dallas Professor Ray Baughman just turned all of that around, making wickedly strong artificial muscle fibers from nothing more than fishing wire. POWDER KEG Old Time Farm Crime: The Opium Wars modernfarmer.com It was a major drug bust with more than 1,600 arrests and the confiscation of 11,000 pounds of a highly addictive substance. No, this wasn't a DEA raid of a major meth operation. It was the year 1839 and the Chinese government was cracking down on British importation of opium. Read more on Digg.com → NO END IN SIGHT An anti-government protester holds a crucifix as he prays at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine. Credit: Marko Drobnjakovic/AP Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any Weirder

Olympian Films Wolf Stalking Her Hotel Hallway, The Dark Power Of Fraternities, Don't You Hate Shirts?, What Happens When You Make The Internet Share A Video Game, The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of WhatsApp The Daily Digg Thursday, February 20, 2014 THE SOCHIEST MOMENT OF SOCHI Olympian Films Wolf Stalking Her Hotel Hallway digg.com Olympian Kate Hansen tweeted out a video of what appears to be a wolf trotting down her hotel hallway with the message, "I'm pretty sure this is a wolf wandering my hall in Sochi." BEST LEDE EVER, OR BEST LEDE EVER The Dark Power Of Fraternities theatlantic.com A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Don't You Hate Shirts? bonobos.com We did too. Then we learned about Bonobos. Now we love shirts and our HR department is happy. THE THEOCRACY OF 'POKÉMON' What Happens When You Make The Internet Share A Video Game digg.com If you go to this stream you'll see a grayscale boy in a hat running in circles. What you might not realize is that you're watching quite possibly the most interesting social experiment of all time. WHAT'S COOL? PROVING EVERYONE WRONG The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of WhatsApp forbes.com Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook - the office where Koum, 37, once stood in line to collect food stamps. Read more on Digg.com → MORE PROOF THE BIATHLON IS AMAZING Norway's Tiril Eckhoff shoots during the mixed biathlon relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Credit: AP Photo/Lee Jin-man Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014