What's That Metal Strip Above Airplane Doors?

This Epic Note-Passing War On A Delayed Flight Wins Thanksgiving, How To Propose When Your Girlfriend Finds Out You're Going To Propose, What's That Metal Strip Above The Airplane Door?, The Ancient Greek Torture Machine That Doubled As A Musical Instrument, Nigeria Sharia Police Smash 240,000 Bottles Of Beer The Daily Digg Friday, November 29, 2013 THANKSGIVING + PLANES = HUMANITY'S WORST This Epic Note-Passing War On A Delayed Flight Wins Thanksgiving buzzfeed.com "Be thankful your family feud isn't as bad as @theyearofelan and Diane in 7A on a delayed flight right now." BEST PUNISHMENT FOR SPOILING A SURPRISE How To Propose When Your Girlfriend Finds Out You're Going To Propose digg.com This is how you handle a proposal that's been exposed. AND OTHER AIRPLANE ODDITIES What's That Metal Strip Above The Airplane Door? slate.com Busy skies also mean human gridlock on jet bridges from the terminal down to the aircraft door. While you're waiting to board, you might have time to contemplate the purpose of the jauntily angled strip of metal above the door of most commercial aircraft. BEAUTIFUL SOUND OF YOUR SCREAMS The Ancient Greek Torture Machine That Doubled As A Musical Instrument openculture.com History is replete with brutally imaginative torture and execution techniques. However, the most intricately sadistic form of torture, however, originated with the Greek tyrant Phalaris. WORSE THAN BOOK BURNING Nigeria Sharia Police Smash 240,000 Bottles Of Beer news.yahoo.com Police enforcing Islamic law in Nigeria's city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer on Wednesday, the latest move in a wider crackdown on behaviour deemed "immoral" in the area. Read more on Digg.com → WEB-SLINGING The Spiderman balloon makes its down Central Park West during the 87th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York November 28, 2013. Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

What Color Is The Universe?

Eating Turkey Won't Actually Make You Sleepy, Why A Hit To A Bottle Makes A Foam Volcano, Every Man Needs A Good Suit – Here's How To Get It, How Not To Be An Asshole On Black Friday, What Color Is The Universe? The Daily Digg Wednesday, November 27, 2013 TIRED STORY Eating Turkey Won't Actually Make You Sleepy livescience.com Contrary to popular belief, eating turkey isn't the main reason you feel sleepy after a Thanksgiving feast. THE PHYSICS OF BEER-TAPPING Why A Hit To A Bottle Makes A Foam Volcano npr.org Beer tapping: the classic jerk party move, now scientifically explained. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Every Man Needs A Good Suit – Here's How To Get It indochino.com Fact: Every man looks better in a suit. Now you can get one custom-made with a simple click. DEPARTMENT OF BASIC HUMANITY How Not To Be An Asshole On Black Friday xojane.com After many years as a seasonal employee, I've developed a keen sense of what actually constitutes good manners while shopping. You probably don't have them. You're rude and annoying and you probably don't even know it. IF YOU SAID 'BLACK' YOU'RE WRONG What Color Is The Universe? digg.com Prepare yourself for the coolest term you've never heard: "cosmic latté." Read more on Digg.com → BEFORE PRESIDENTS PARDONED TURKEYS, THEY ATE THEM Photograph of President Truman receiving a Thanksgiving turkey from members of the Poultry and Egg National Board and other representatives of the turkey industry, outside the White House. Contrary to popular belief, Truman was not the first president to pardon the Turkey. That honor belonged to Ronald Reagan. Credit: Abbie Rowe, U.S. National Park Service Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

A Picture's Worth A Thousand Bullets

In yesterday's Daily Digg, a story by the Atlantic was incorrectly labeled as "sponsored." This was not the case, and was the result of human error. Our apologies for any confusion this may have caused. And don't worry, after subjecting him to hours of "A Clockwork Orange"-style Ludovico therapy, we're confident the offending editor will never make this mistake again. Sincerely, The Digg Team The Daily Digg Tuesday, November 26, 2013 PAID ON DELIVERY The Strange Secrets Of The World's First Obstetricians priceonomics.com What if you invented something that could save the lives of babies and their mothers during childbirth? Would you spread the technology freely, or ration its access to maximize your profits? The inventors of the forceps chose the profits route. A PICTURE'S WORTH A THOUSAND BULLETS Behind The Photograph That Won WWII life.time.com Here's the stranger-than-fiction story behind one of the most influential photographs ever taken in any war: a 1943 picture of three dead Americans half-buried in the sand at a desolate place called Buna Beach. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED The Best Lesson You Probably Haven't Learned teamtreehouse.com If you had learned to code in school, you could have made that awesome app by now. Thankfully, Treehouse teaches you everything you need to know without boring you to tears. ANY GIVEN SUNDAY Inside The Ordered Chaos Of An NFL Production Control Room digg.com The NFL's most exciting game isn't played on the field. It happens behind the scenes, as hundreds of cast and crew come together to turn a football game into a football broadcast, the show hundred of millions of viewers see every week. YOUNG FEMALE SERVICE WORKERS Here's Who Earns The Minimum Wage, In 3 Graphs npr.org There's a lot of talk about raising the minimum wage in a number of states, and these charts are here to provide a little context. Read more on Digg.com → THE HUMAN STAIN A woman touches a Spider Monkey at the Rehabilitation Center and Primate Rescue, in Peñaflor, Chile. Credit: HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Period's Pissed

What You Should Know About The Iran Nuclear Deal, Two Gunshots On A Summer Night, How To Make A Beautiful Website Without Knowing Sh*t, The Period Is The New >:(, Why Did 9,000 Porny Spambots Descend On A San Diego High Schooler? The Daily Digg Monday, November 25, 2013 SOUND SMART AT THE WATER COOLER What You Should Know About The Iran Nuclear Deal npr.org The deal is being called historic. USA Today says it may be President Obama's most unlikely and most meaningful foreign policy victory during his time in office. MIDSUMMER'S NIGHTMARE Two Gunshots On A Summer Night nytimes.com A deputy's pistol, a dead girlfriend, a flawed inquiry. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Make A Beautiful Website Without Knowing Sh*t squarespace.com No matter what you're looking to build, Squarespace makes it fast and easy. A PERIOD PIECE The Period Is The New >:( newrepublic.com When did our plainest punctuation mark become so angry? RISE OF THE BOTS SPONSORED Why Did 9,000 Porny Spambots Descend On A San Diego High Schooler? theatlantic.com Her experience is a portal into the strange underworld of spambots, shady marketing, and non-human intelligence. Read more on Digg.com → TO BOLDY GO WHERE GPS CAN'T HELP YOU Tribesmen lead their camels through the sand dunes of the Liwa desert, 220 kilometers west of Abu Dhabi. Credit: KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Go Nuts

Hunkering Down In A Luxury Building On The Outskirts, The Inside Story Of How The NFL's Plan For Its First Openly Gay Player Fell Apart, Why Are Prison Riots Declining While Prison Populations Explode?, Magnus Carlsen: Our First Post-Modern Chess Champion, Put Some Nuts In Your Mouth The Daily Digg Friday, November 22, 2013 IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, RETREAT TO HOT TUB Hunkering Down In A Luxury Building On The Outskirts observer.com Tales from a building on the front lines in the gentrification battle. HOW A WATERSHED MOMENT WAS PLUGGED The Inside Story Of How The NFL's Plan For Its First Openly Gay Player Fell Apart bleacherreport.com It was set. An NFL player was going to publicly say he was gay and then play in the NFL. What happened before that moment showed how parts of the NFL are progressive and ready for change. Then, what happened next showed how the sport is still in some ways fearful of it. QUIET RIOT Why Are Prison Riots Declining While Prison Populations Explode? theatlantic.com A visit to corrections officers' annual Mock Prison Riot. THE THOMAS PYNCHON OF THE POLISH DEFENSE Magnus Carlsen: Our First Post-Modern Chess Champion businessinsider.com While Magnus rigorously plays the book, he wears down his opponents psychologically, making his chess matches as much about what happens on the board as off. GO NUTS Put Some Nuts In Your Mouth usnews.com Seriously though, they could help you live longer. Read more on Digg.com → TOP DOG A Colombian policeman performs with his dog during the opening of the IV Meeting of Ministers of Public Security of the Americas in Medellin, Colombia on November 21, 2013. Credit: RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Sex In The Senate

Sex In The Senate, Google Created An Interactive Tour Of Middle Earth, The Easiest Way To Look More Photogenic, The Great Imposter, Here's How Walmart Could Pay Workers A Decent Wage Without Raising Prices The Daily Digg Thursday, November 21, 2013 THE COUNTRY RUNS ON BOURBON Sex In The Senate politico.com The secret, salacious history of Capital Hill. DON'T TRY ON ANY RINGS WHILE THERE Google Created An Interactive Tour Of Middle Earth middle-earth.thehobbit.com This is super cool. SOUNDS PAINFUL The Easiest Way To Look More Photogenic petapixel.com It's all about the squinch. MEET BARRY BREMEN The Great Imposter espn.go.com Barry Bremen was equal parts P.T. Barnum, 'Walter Mitty', and Paper Lion-era George Plimpton. From 1979 to 1986, this Detroit-area novelty goods salesman became known in the sports world as 'The Great Imposter'. COULD RAISE WAGES $5.38 PER HOUR Here's How Walmart Could Pay Workers A Decent Wage Without Raising Prices motherjones.com Walmart has gotten a lot of bad press this week over news of an Ohio store holding a food drive for its own workers, who were unable to buy Thanksgiving groceries on the retail giant's paltry wages. Wouldn't it be better if Walmart simply paid its workers enough to feed themselves? A new report suggests that doing so wouldn't be as hard as you might think. Read more on Digg.com → THE FLAG STILL FLIES A man walks along as the national flag of the Philippines flies over the rubble of destroyed homes in Tacloban on November 20, 2013. More than 4,000 people were killed and up to 4.4 million displaced when typhoon Haiyan packing some of the strongest winds ever recorded by a storm made landfall. Credit: ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014