How To Corner The Fangirl Market

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What $15 An Hour Looks Like

What $15 An Hour Looks Like And Other Facts, The Hypocrisy Of 'Judge Judy', A Pay-What-You-Want Way To Master Photography, Just The Good Stuff From Last Night's Republican Debate, Who Owns Yosemite?, The Woman Behind The Most Hated Play In America The Daily Digg Friday, January 15, 2016 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK What $15 An Hour Looks Like And Other Facts digg.com Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: raising minimum wage to $15 an hour, the legacy of Internet Explorer and ranking the Costco food court food. JUSTICED UNSERVED The Hypocrisy Of 'Judge Judy' priceonomics.com Accountability is Judge Judy's thing, and like most of what you see on television, it's mostly an illusion. FROM THE DIGG STORE A Pay-What-You-Want Way To Master Photography store.digg.com Learn how to beautifully preserve your memories for a lifetime and also get more likes on Instagram. NEW YORK VALUES Just The Good Stuff From Last Night's Republican Debate digg.com The sixth Republican Primary debate of the year was Thursday night. Here's what happened. THIS LAND IS WHOSE LAND? Who Owns Yosemite? outsideonline.com Can a private company trademark public property? That's the question the feds are scrambling to answer after a longtime concessionaire in Yosemite claimed rights to the names of some of the park's most iconic locations. GRAVE REVIEWS The Woman Behind The Most Hated Play In America digg.com "Perfect Crime" is the longest-running play in New York City history. Which is astounding, given that its Yelp reviews are some of the worst you'll ever read. Get more stories on Digg.com MUST HAVE ESCAPED FROM WALL ST ​Cujo, one of the bulls for the Buck Off at Madison Square Garden, is unloaded for a weigh in outside the venue, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. The Professional Bull Riders are marking their 10th anniversary competing in New York. Credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

What Are You Doing In There, Google?

How To Pick A Good First Credit Card, Inside Google's Autonomous Car Testing Center, Interested In Learning Design?, Why A Father Would Drop His Child Off A Bridge, And Other Stories, Secrets Of The MIT Poker Course, WATCH: Hoverboard Can't Even Make It Through Unboxing Video Without Bursting Into Flames The Daily Digg Thursday, January 14, 2016 HOW TO BE AN ADULT How To Pick A Good First Credit Card digg.com Like it or not, credit cards are just as necessary as shower curtains and running water. Unless you plan on never borrowing money ever, you'll need one. BEHIND TINTED WINDOWS Inside Google's Autonomous Car Testing Center medium.com "I make a couple of turns, and then, on a dashboard display that I'm not allowed to describe to you (trade secret!), something turns green." FROM THE DIGG STORE Interested In Learning Design? store.digg.com Oh, you are? Well that's convenient because here's access to more than 200 hours of expert instruction on design, computer animation and game development. WHAT WE'RE READING THIS WEEK Why A Father Would Drop His Child Off A Bridge, And Other Stories digg.com How a father could throw his 5-year-old girl off a bridge to her death, inside the GM ignition switch scandal, the crazy new science of freezing, and more — here's the best longform journalism of the week. DON'T COUNT ON IT Secrets Of The MIT Poker Course mentalfloss.atavist.com Can a little calculus make a total novice into a gambling pro? ZERO SUCCESSFUL RIDES COMPLETED WATCH: Hoverboard Can't Even Make It Through Unboxing Video Without Bursting Into Flames digg.com Given the rate at which hoverboards are catching on fire these days, it's surprising that it's taken this long for it to happen during an unboxing video. Get more stories on Digg.com CAMEL (AND) CIGARETTE ​A Jordanian Bedouin smokes his cigarette as he rests on The King's Highway, on the outskirts of Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. Credit: AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002