The Cheese Is A Lie

Digg By The Numbers, 2015 Edition, Why Is Calvin Buari Still In Prison For A Murder Someone Else Confessed To?, Where The Lady Ramen Shops At?, There's No Such Thing As Nacho Cheese, How To Be The Smartest Person At Your Super Bowl Party, The Silk Road Boss Allegedly Encouraged The Hells Angels To Kill A Blackmailer The Daily Digg Friday, January 30, 2015 DIG(G)ITAL CORPORATE NUDITY Digg By The Numbers, 2015 Edition medium.com At the start of a new year, it's tech company tradition/neurosis to do a swan dive into the previous year's data in search of sunken treasures  —  patterns or insights that escaped notice in the daily rush of site metrics and KPI reports. I've been doing that over the past week, and thought it might be interesting to lift Digg's hood and show some of our internal numbers from 2014. A BRONX BETRAYAL Why Is Calvin Buari Still In Prison For A Murder Someone Else Confessed To? buzzfeed.com Calvin Buari's former crew put him in prison. Prosecutors and detectives made sure he stayed there. NOT ALL RAMEN Where The Lady Ramen Shops At? luckypeach.com In Japan, things are advertised specifically for women — it's still considered okay. THE CHEESE IS A LIE There's No Such Thing As Nacho Cheese bloomberg.com Few things in this world should be taken for granted, including a particular fluorescent orange food called nacho cheese. Here's the truth: There's no such thing. ACTUALLY... How To Be The Smartest Person At Your Super Bowl Party digg.com Take these fun, insightful and interesting facts about Super Bowl XLIX (that's 49, for those of you who struggle with Roman numerals) and pawn them off as your own to wow your friends, new and old. Who doesn't love fun facts? No one, that's who! THE SILK ROAD MOVIE IS GOING TO BE GREAT The Silk Road Boss Allegedly Encouraged The Hells Angels To Kill A Blackmailer motherboard.vice.com ​The trial of alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht took a dark turn on Thursday, as prosecutors introduced for the first time evidence of the violence the defendant was allegedly willing to use to protect his internet empire. Get more stories on Digg.com → A FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN A man wearing a Spider-Man costume walks outside the central market of Lima, Peru, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. The man disguised as a comic strip hero is a street vendor who sells toys, such as rubber balls. Credit: AP Photo/Esteban Felix 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

The 51st State

The Subversive Brilliance Of Marshawn Lynch, What Silicon Valley Thinks Of Women, Face Facts: You Deserve A Better Shave, Your Dog Loves You, It Really Does, Comcast Renames Man 'Asshole Brown' After He Tries To Cancel Cable, What If New York City Were The 51st State? The Daily Digg Thursday, January 29, 2015 BEAST KNOWS BEST The Subversive Brilliance Of Marshawn Lynch theweek.com Lynch may be alone in his actions at the moment, but it seems fairly clear that in following the letter of the NFL's law — showing up to the press conference, and verbalizing an answer to a question — he's demonstrating that he, not Roger Goodell or anyone else, controls the conditions of his labor. NOT MUCH What Silicon Valley Thinks Of Women newsweek.com Silicon Valley is still the kind of place where investors can tweak women who ask them for financing with barbs like "I don't like the way women think. They haven't mastered linear thinking." STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Face Facts: You Deserve A Better Shave harrys.com Harry's razors are a total steel. Get it? Of course you do, you're smart. Which is exactly why you should be buying their razors. HERO HOUNDS Your Dog Loves You, It Really Does digg.com This dog quickly jumped in the lake after it thought its owner was drowning in a heartwarming show of care and compassion. Also: don't fool your dogs like this!! CAN'T WAIT FOR THE MERGER! Comcast Renames Man 'Asshole Brown' After He Tries To Cancel Cable wired.com Comcast probably doesn't relish being one of those companies that many Americans love to hate. But sometimes, the cable giant makes this way too easy. BLOOMBERG COULD RUN FOR GOVERNOR What If New York City Were The 51st State? medium.com With statehood, New York City would take its place on the United States flag as the 51st star. But what would be the consequences? Get more stories on Digg.com → MS. LYNCH GOES TO WASHINGTON Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, before the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on her nomination. If confirmed, Lynch would replace Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation in September after leading the Justice Department for six years. The 55-year-old federal prosecutor would be the nation's first black female attorney general. Credit: (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) 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

Boom

Boom: Inside A British Bank-Bombing Spree, The Tesla P85D Has Something Called 'Insane Mode' And It's Scaring The Crap Out Of People, Put Down That Crap You Call Coffee, The Rise Of Dark Money And The Koch Party, Everyone's Stealing Jokes Online, Why Doesn't Anyone Care?, It's A Golden Age For Racing Tech In Our Driveways The Daily Digg Wednesday, January 28, 2015 CASH FLOW PROBLEM Boom: Inside A British Bank-Bombing Spree bloomberg.com No American ATM has ever been robbed with explosive gas. The same was true in Britain — until 2013. Now there have been more than 90. Inside the birth of a bomb spree. 0-60 IN 3 SECONDS The Tesla P85D Has Something Called 'Insane Mode' And It's Scaring The Crap Out Of People digg.com Hold onto your butts. COFFEE WE DIGG SPONSORED Put Down That Crap You Call Coffee moustachecoffeeclub.com Every day it seems like there's some crazy new kind of coffee we're supposed to be drinking that comes out of a monkey's anus or an elephant's snout or a kangaroo's pouch or something. Honestly, keeping up with coffee trends is exhausting. That's why we just have Moustache Coffee Club send us the best stuff out there, no hassle, no animal orifices. If you like coffee, you should try them for free. LIKE A COKE PARTY, SOUNDS EXPENSIVE The Rise Of Dark Money And The Koch Party nationaljournal.com It's time for 21st-century campaign finance reform: No limits, instant disclosure. FUNNY BUSINESS Everyone's Stealing Jokes Online, Why Doesn't Anyone Care? washingtonpost.com To paraphrase some guy or other, good content is shared, great content is stolen. In fact, you might say the surest sign of success with a joke online is that people are stealing it. SELL ON SUNDAY, WIN ON MONDAY It's A Golden Age For Racing Tech In Our Driveways arstechnica.com Why do car companies go racing? First and foremost, they do it for marketing. Whether that still holds true 50 years later in an age of far greater competition for our interest isn't clear, but today salesmanship certainly isn't the only reason to race. Get more stories on Digg.com → LIVING HISTORY A Holocaust survivor takes pictures inside a tent raised at the entrance of the Birkenau Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, before the official remembrance ceremony. About 300 survivors gathered with leaders from around the world to remember the 1.1 million people killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the millions of others killed in the Holocaust. Credit: AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski 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

"Alone Time"

Here Is EFF's Master Plan For Ending Global Mass Surveillance, Do Not Strap Roman Candles To Your Drone, Not All Snacks Are Created Equal, Do Happy Couples Masturbate?, The Fight To Save Japan's Young Shut-Ins, The Rat Tribe Of Beijing The Daily Digg Tuesday, January 27, 2015 LOOKING FOR A DIGITAL ANTIDOTE Here Is EFF's Master Plan For Ending Global Mass Surveillance gizmodo.com The entity that's conducting the most extreme and far-reaching surveillance against most of the world's communications — the National Security Agency — is bound by United States law. That's good news for Americans. US law and the Constitution protect American citizens and legal residents from warrantless surveillance. WHEN IN ROME Do Not Strap Roman Candles To Your Drone digg.com And don't let your friends act as targets either! FOOD WE DIGG SPONSORED Not All Snacks Are Created Equal naturebox.com You're gonna snack. It's not a question of "if," but simply a question of "when." But when you do inevitably reach for food to satisfy that craving, make sure NatureBox is nearby. (And try the Sriracha Roasted Cashews — your stomach will thank you.) LOVER, KNOW THYSELF Do Happy Couples Masturbate? nymag.com Masturbation is sort of inherently antisocial. Within the bounds of a relationship defined, in part, by both partners' willingness to devote sexual energy to one another, it can be downright rude. RECEDING YOUTH The Fight To Save Japan's Young Shut-Ins wsj.com In Japan, hikikomori has been a household word since the 1990s, with many experts calling it one of the biggest social and health problems plaguing the country. Yet the causes and treatments of the condition — or even whether it's a mental illness or not — remain poorly understood. And while the Japanese government has poured significant funds into helping hikikomori, treatment success rates remain low. FROM THE GROUND UP The Rat Tribe Of Beijing projects.aljazeera.com Under the streets, a hidden warren of rooms for the thrifty. Get more stories on Digg.com → DISMOUNTED RCMP officers attend the funeral procession for slain Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable David Wynn, in St. Albert, Alta., on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Wynn died four days after he and Auxiliary Constable Derek Bond were shot by Shawn Rehn in St. Albert, Alta, on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jason Franson 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

These Pandas Are Not Messing Around

Ukraine Reignites, Why Apps For Messaging Are Trending, Andrew Cuomo's Dominoes, If You Want A Rabbit To Deliver Beer, Just Build Him A Cart, What You Missed This Weekend, This All-Out Baby Panda Brawl Is The Cutest Thing You'll See This Week The Daily Digg Monday, January 26, 2015 A COUNTRY PULLED APART Ukraine Reignites foreignaffairs.com Over the weekend, Russian-led separatist forces took control of most of the ruined airport in Donetsk, forcing a final retreat by Ukrainian forces. CHATROOMS, EVOLVED Why Apps For Messaging Are Trending nytimes.com A team at BuzzFeed knew it had struck gold when it came across a decades-old photo of Dwayne Johnson, the musclebound wrestler and film star known as The Rock, wearing a fanny pack and dated bluejeans. THREE MEN IN THE ROOM, THEN TWO Andrew Cuomo's Dominoes politico.com Why the New York governor should be worried about the assembly speaker's legal troubles. HOP TO IT If You Want A Rabbit To Deliver Beer, Just Build Him A Cart digg.com Wallace has only now realized his full potential as a one-bunny beer delivery system. DIGG PICKS What You Missed This Weekend digg.com DeflateGate rumbled on, bomb threats were tweeted at Delta, and we got some insights into our sex lives via our Google searches. PLAY SAFE KIDS! This All-Out Baby Panda Brawl Is The Cutest Thing You'll See This Week digg.com We'd be willing to pay a good deal of money for a "Super Smash Brothers" mod that makes all the characters pandas. Get more stories on Digg.com → RUNNING AWAY WITH IT Jean-Michel Bazire of France celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the 94th Grand Prix d'Amerique trotting race with his horse Up and Quick, at the Vincennes racetrack, outside Paris, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. Credit: (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) 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