Sideways And Slantways And Longways And Backways

Multidirectional, Cable-Free Elevators Could Be Ready By 2016, Quora And The Quest To Answer Every Question, Now Cooking Doesn't Have To Be A Pain, This Rave Is Only For Children, Virtual-Reality Movies Will Require New Methods Of Storytelling, NASA's $349M Monument That Has Gone To Waste The Daily Digg Tuesday, December 16, 2014 DAWN OF THE WONKAVATOR Multidirectional, Cable-Free Elevators Could Be Ready By 2016 io9.com Elevator technology hasn't really improved much since its first appearance over 160 years ago. Enter ThyssenKrupp's MULTI — an advanced elevator system that's poised to radically transform the way we get around buildings. BECAUSE YAHOO ANSWERS JUST WON'T CUT IT Quora And The Quest To Answer Every Question buzzfeed.com Adam D'Angelo wants the world to share its knowledge on the Internet. But can Quora grow beyond Silicon Valley and convince every human to do just that? GROCERIES WE DIGG SPONSORED Now Cooking Doesn't Have To Be A Pain blueapron.com Forget wasting time at the grocery store. With Blue Apron you get the perfect amount of the best ingredients delivered right to your door. Easy shopping, easy recipes, and easy cooking — it really doesn't get much better than this. Oh and now get $20 off your first order! TONIGHT, YOU ARE ALL NAMED 'MOLLY' This Rave Is Only For Children digg.com In what universe is this a good idea? FROM ON SCREEN TO IN SCREEN Virtual-Reality Movies Will Require New Methods Of Storytelling vulture.com As long as humans have visual cortices, we're going to want to make art that reflects the way we see the world. Now the technology is finally catching up. SEE YA SPACE COWBOY NASA's $349M Monument That Has Gone To Waste washingtonpost.com In June, NASA finished work on a huge construction project here in Mississippi: a $349 million laboratory tower, designed to test a new rocket engine in a chamber that mimicked the vacuum of space. As soon as the work was done, it shut the tower down. Now, the agency will spend about $700,000 a year to maintain it in disuse. Read more on Digg.com → SANTACON'S VIRTUOUS TWIN Runners, dressed as Santa Claus, take part in the 38th "Christmas Corrida Race" in the streets of Issy Les Moulineaux, on the western outskirts of Paris, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. Over 3000 runners participate in the 10 kilometers ( 6.25 miles) run. Credit: AP Photo/Michel Euler Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

You're Our Only Hope

The Best Survey You'll Ever Take Is..., The Detainee Abuse Photos Obama Didn't Want You To See, What Happens When An Engineer Designs A Clothing Line, What You Missed This Weekend, Every Episode Of Every 'Star Trek' Series Ever, Ranked, A Simple Trick To Make A Balloon Much More Fun The Daily Digg Monday, December 15, 2014 YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE The Best Survey You'll Ever Take Is... digg.typeform.com Probably not this one. But it's still a good one and it's super quick and it'll really, really help us figure out how to make the Daily Digg — the very thing you're reading right now — even better. We know you have a busy day, but can't you spare two minutes? Awesome, thank you! WHAT ARE THE ONES HE DID WANT US TO SEE? The Detainee Abuse Photos Obama Didn't Want You To See thedailybeast.com If you thought the Senate's "torture report" was shocking, imagine the prospect of the Obama administration releasing hundreds, maybe thousands of photographs depicting detainee abuse. CLOTHING WE DIGG SPONSORED What Happens When An Engineer Designs A Clothing Line ministryofsupply.com Welcome to the future, where clothes fit right, feel good, and are full of high-tech advancements. DIGG PICKS What You Missed This Weekend digg.com Dick Cheney and Bill Cosby spoke out as the U.S. government passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill. NOW HEAR THIS Every Episode Of Every 'Star Trek' Series Ever, Ranked playboy.com I've been a rabid fan of the franchise since childhood and I've got the wedgie scars to prove it. While still maintaining a semi-functional adult life I pen the One Trek Mind column at StarTrek.com and host panels at Star Trek conventions. So when I present you with this complete ranking of every single Star Trek episode ever, it's not like we just shot photon torpedoes at the wall. HACK BALLOONS A Simple Trick To Make A Balloon Much More Fun digg.com "I'm sorry but I'm afraid an ordinary balloon doesn't give me the performance my lifestyle demands." We agree dude. Read more on Digg.com → HONESTLY, WE THOUGHT THEY'D BE MORE HIGH-TECH Election staff members carries a ballot box for vote counting in the parliamentary lower house elections at a ballot counting center in Tokyo, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Koji Sasahara Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

This Week's Best Videos: An Impossible Ski Line, A Powerful Laser Turret And A Cool Trials Rider

Watch This Ski Video And Try Not To Scream, Watch Adam Savage Recreate Barbarella's Space Rifle From Start To Finish, Every On-Screen Death In The 'Lord Of The Rings' Trilogy In One Video, Watch The U.S. Navy's Laser Turret Blow Stuff Up, Jetman Flies In Formation With A Stunt Plane, Welcomes The Future, Hell Is Being Stuck In The Elevator With This Insane Man The Daily Digg Sunday, December 14, 2014 LINE OF THE YEAR Watch This Ski Video And Try Not To Scream digg.com Put down that GoPro, drop those poles and store your skis. You might as well give up on making ski videos. Cody Townsend just skied down a face between two rock walls that looks narrower than that impossible to clean space between your sink and shower. ANATOMY OF A BUILD Watch Adam Savage Recreate Barbarella's Space Rifle From Start To Finish digg.com Over the course of one day Adam created a replica of the titular heroine's rifle from classic B-movie "Barbarella." Although this video is nearly as long as the movie itself, it's also a lot more watchable. ONE VIDEO TO RULE THEM ALL Every On-Screen Death In The 'Lord Of The Rings' Trilogy In One Video digg.com In which we discovered that the two things that did most of the killing in Peter Jackson's trilogy were water and ghosts. PEW PEW Watch The U.S. Navy's Laser Turret Blow Stuff Up digg.com Here's a demonstration of the Navy's Laser Weapon System (LaWS). Fittingly, it seems to be controlled by a highly-modified Xbox controller. WHEN HUMANS TAKE FLIGHT Jetman Flies In Formation With A Stunt Plane, Welcomes The Future digg.com God never granted us wings, so we had to build them ourselves. Fly on, Jetman! Soar into the sunset like a beautiful futuristic animal! 7 MINUTES IN HELL Hell Is Being Stuck In The Elevator With This Insane Man digg.com To clear things up, it's not the kid in the foreground. It's the large man wearing the fedora hovering in the corner. And he's taking executive action. Read more on Digg.com → WICKED COOL Red Bull continues to astound us with videos of trials riders stretching the limits of balance and control in some of the most interesting locales in the world. Credit: Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

So Kawaii

Ferguson Divided My Family, But We Were Already Broken, Much Ado About Four Dollars, These Clothes Were Made For You, Japan Has A Cute Problem, Why Did 'SNL' Cut This Hilarious VH1 Parody?, What We Learned This Week The Daily Digg Friday, December 12, 2014 'WE WERE FAMILY' Ferguson Divided My Family, But We Were Already Broken buzzfeed.com As a black man I'd learned to fear the police. Then the police became my family. WHY WAS THIS A STORY Much Ado About Four Dollars digg.com This week the Internet had a hard time dealing with a man emailing a restaurant about price differences. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED These Clothes Were Made For You weargustin.com This is how shopping should be. EXCUSE ME, THE WORD IS 'KAWAII' Japan Has A Cute Problem medium.com How the pink apron keeps women down. I LOVE THESE GUYS! Why Did 'SNL' Cut This Hilarious VH1 Parody? digg.com VH1 counts down the 100 Greatest Guys, from your classic nice guy to a guy's guy to an owner of two nice winter coats. DIGG PICKS What We Learned This Week digg.com This week we learned that the CIA tortured at least 119 people, why retailers keep sending you catalogs and that the only thing worse than promising a man will be eaten alive by a snake is for a man not to be eaten alive by a snake. Read more on Digg.com → NOT A CARAPACE IN THE WORLD A turtle swims in the aquarium in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Thoughts For Your Pennies

The CIA Is Still Running Amok, The History Of The Penny, It's Time To Get A New Watch, This Japanese Man Is Better At Wrapping Gifts Than You, Why James Cameron's 'Aliens' Is The Best Movie About Technology, Is Venmo Really The Best Way To Stalk People? The Daily Digg Thursday, December 11, 2014 WHEN LYING IS YOUR BUSINESS The CIA Is Still Running Amok politico.com Officers of the CIA's clandestine service working overseas are compelled to be a kind of legal criminal. Their crucial job — before Sept. 11 — was to convince foreigners to commit treason. But when they got back to Washington, they had to tell the truth to their fellow Americans. CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN The History Of The Penny digg.com Everything you wanted to know about that useless coin you don't even care to scoop out from the bottom of your sofa. PRODUCTS WE DIGG SPONSORED It's Time To Get A New Watch mvmtwatches.com Time is money, but that doesn't mean your watch has to be. MVMT has great watches for great prices (even greater now that everything on the site is 10% off). THE O.G. OF ORIGAMI GIFT WRAPPING This Japanese Man Is Better At Wrapping Gifts Than You digg.com In fairness, most people are terrible at gift wrapping and end up looking like they just went to war with a tape dispenser. Let this guy show you how to make it look easy. STOP YOUR GRINNIN' AND DROP YOUR LINEN Why James Cameron's 'Aliens' Is The Best Movie About Technology medium.com "There are not many films on any topic that pull off the trifecta of big ideas, great moviemaking and deep human resonance, let alone manage to be about technology." FOLLOW THE MONEY Is Venmo Really The Best Way To Stalk People? digg.com Writer Chiara Atik has a hobby — spying on the financial transactions of friends and strangers. She thinks that Venmo, more than any other social media site, is the place you can find actual, accidental truth online. This week the "Reply All" podcast investigates that claim. Read more on Digg.com → SILENCING THE OPPOSITION, LITERALLY An opposition activist is detained by Cuban security officers before the start of a march marking International Human Rights Day in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. The march was organized by the "Damas de Blanco," or Women in White, a pro-democracy group of women activists. The demonstrators where picked up by the police as soon as they arrived, while hundreds of pro-government loyalist sang patriotic songs and slogans. 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