Football Fans, Facebook Knows Just How You Feel

The Super Bowl Of Sports Gambling, Where Digital Secrets Go To Die, This PSA Takes A Very Unexpected Turn, Getting To Know The Voices In Your Head, Facebook's Data Confirms Football Fans Are Nuts The Daily Digg Friday, January 31, 2014 ABOUT AS MANY CONCUSSIONS The Super Bowl Of Sports Gambling nytimes.com Inside the world's biggest football-betting contest, where squares and sharps and amateur data crunchers are all trying to beat the spread — and Vegas Runner's reputation is on the line. ASHES TO ASHES, RUST TO RUST Where Digital Secrets Go To Die phys.org In a 20,000-square-foot warehouse, where visitors are required to trade in a driver's license for a visitor's badge, some of the nation's secrets are torn apart, reduced to sand or demagnetized until they are forever silent. WARNING: GRAPHIC This PSA Takes A Very Unexpected Turn digg.com This PSA (which is not an actual PSA) brings home why you should stay in school in a very unexpected way. YOU'RE NOT CRAZY. WELL, PROBABLY Getting To Know The Voices In Your Head scientificamerican.com We talk to ourselves to stay motivated, tame unruly emotions, plan for the future and even maintain a sense of self. TENSIONS RUN HIGH Facebook's Data Confirms Football Fans Are Nuts facebook.com Sports fans—and perhaps football fans in particular—know that supporting a team over an entire season can be an emotional roller coaster. That's why Facebook anonymously tracked fans to measure their feelings. Read more on Digg.com → HORSING AROUND Worshippers burn incense and pray at the Wong Tai Sin Temple to welcome the Chinese New Year of the horse in Hong Kong. Credit: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

What Are Nightmares Made Of?

Puppy Bowl X Is Even Worse Than The Super Bowl, What Are Nightmares Made Of?, Finally, One Less Thing You Have To Overpay For, This Weird 5-Second Test Can Tell You If Your Friends Are Good Liars, Where America's Wealthiest Suburbanites Live — And Where They Don't The Daily Digg Thursday, January 30, 2014 AGAINST THE TYRANNY OF CUTENESS Puppy Bowl X Is Even Worse Than The Super Bowl newrepublic.com Puppies are not wide receivers, not of any caliber. They are dogs, and as such, they don't have two feet and two hands but rather four paws that seem expressly designed to prevent carrying round objects, let alone catching airborne footballs. PRETTY MUCH EXACTLY WHAT YOU'D EXPECT What Are Nightmares Made Of? psmag.com Few studies have delved into the dark details and emotions associated with nightmares, and even fewer have used dream logs as a basis for analysis. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Finally, One Less Thing You Have To Overpay For 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. THE Q TEST This Weird 5-Second Test Can Tell You If Your Friends Are Good Liars digg.com It all has to do with how aware we are of being perceived. Does that sound complicated? It's not. Or are we lying? CULLING ALL THE SACS Where America's Wealthiest Suburbanites Live — And Where They Don't businessweek.com For years the American residential dream went something like this: Move to a city, work hard, and eventually you'll make enough to move out. So perhaps it's not surprising that today many of America's largest metropolitan areas house their highest earners on the outskirts of town. Read more on Digg.com → PEAK POPE A view of a street art mural by Italian street artist Maupal which depicts Pope Francis as a superman, flying through the air with his white papal cloak billowing out behind him and holding a bag bearing the word "Values", in downtown Rome near the Vatican on January 28, 2014. The image, created by Italian street artist Maupal, was tweeted today by the Vatican communication twitter account ( @PCCS_VA ). Flying forward with his fist raised, the heroic pontiff -- crucifix swinging in the wind -- carries his trademark black bag, with the word "values" written across it in white. Credit: AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABITIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

How Do Hitmen Operate?

How Do Hitmen Operate?, In The Beginning, There Was A Nipple, 'Fedora Parkour' Is All The Second-Hand Embarrassment You'll Ever Need, The Oculus Rift Put Me In 'Game Of Thrones' And It Made My Stomach Drop, The Crimes Of Tony Soprano The Daily Digg Wednesday, January 29, 2014 TUESDAYS ARE FOR KILLING How Do Hitmen Operate? psmag.com British criminologists claim that hitmen are more boring than we make them out to be, but their analysis can't account for the behavior of "Master" killers. HAVE YOU NAKED BY THE END OF THIS SCROLL In The Beginning, There Was A Nipple espn.go.com Ten years ago, 90 million people watching Super Bowl XXXVIII saw Janet Jackson's breast for nine-sixteenths of a second. Our culture would never be the same. PREPARE TO CRINGE 'Fedora Parkour' Is All The Second-Hand Embarrassment You'll Ever Need digg.com We all do dumb things when we're teenagers, but not all of us film those dumb things and upload them for public consumption. THE SOUND IS SCARIER THAN THE VISUALS The Oculus Rift Put Me In 'Game Of Thrones' And It Made My Stomach Drop gizmodo.com "Game of Thrones" might be fantasy, but the characters are so deep and the betrayals so gripping that it feels real. And thanks to Oculus Rift, I just experienced a brief slice of life in the Seven Kingdoms. It was awesome—but I'm glad to be back in our reality. R.I.P. TO THE VICTIMS The Crimes Of Tony Soprano visual.ly The life and crimes of TV's most beloved gangster, visualized. Read more on Digg.com → THE STATE OF OUR UNION IS BRIGHTLY LIT U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 28, 2014. Credit: Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Image That Can Break Your Brain

The iPod Is Over, These Guys Build The World's Tallest Flagpoles For Dictators, Insane Movie Props You Can Buy On eBay Right Now, The Image That Can Break Your Brain, People Aren't Having Sex Nearly As Much As You Think The Daily Digg Tuesday, January 28, 2014 PLAYED OUT The iPod Is Over theverge.com Apple's game changer is riding into the sunset. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT FLAGPOLES These Guys Build The World's Tallest Flagpoles For Dictators vice.com Marc Summers and David Chambers have a pretty unusual job. Together, through their company Trident Support Corporation, they build the world's tallest flagpoles for the authoritarian regimes of Central Asia and the Middle East. SCHWARZENEGGER'S HEAD Insane Movie Props You Can Buy On eBay Right Now theweek.com Who doesn't have a hundred grand to blow on a "Jurassic Park" velociraptor cage? AVERT YOUR EYES The Image That Can Break Your Brain digg.com Things that can hurt you just by looking at them are science fiction and fantasy, right? Well, not quite. EVERYONE'S GOT COLD SHEETS People Aren't Having Sex Nearly As Much As You Think nerve.com A new survey shows your dry spell is pretty normal. Read more on Digg.com → LIKE CIVIL WAR REENACTMENTS, BUT IN SNOW World War II re-enactors dressed as Soviet Red Army's (top) and Nazi Germany's (bottom) troops take part a staged battle to mark the 70th anniversary of the final raise of the Nazi blockade of the city of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, in the village of Porogki in Leningrad region, on January 26, 2014. The German and Finnish siege and blockade of Leningrad was broken on January 18, 1943 but finally lifted a year after, on January 27, 1944. The city's name was changed back from Leningrad to St. Petersburg after the 1991 Soviet collapse. Credit: OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

There's Nothing About The Grammys In Here

Ex-Marlboro Man Dies From Smoking-Related Disease, Is Sherlock Holmes A Good Detective?, Why I Hate @HistoryInPics, Meet The Only Female Volcano-Scientist Trekking Through North Korea, Google To Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind For $400M The Daily Digg Monday, January 27, 2014 LATER APPEARED IN ANTI-SMOKING ADS Ex-Marlboro Man Dies From Smoking-Related Disease foxnews.com Eric Lawson, a working actor who portrayed the Marlboro Man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72. NOTHING LIKE FIRST-HAND EVIDENCE Is Sherlock Holmes A Good Detective? thedailybeast.com Without Arthur Conan Doyle making him solve everything with ease, does his reasoning stand up to reasoning today. NOT REALLY HISTORY Why I Hate @HistoryInPics sarahwerner.net For months now I've been stewing about how much I hate @HistoryInPics and their ilk (@HistoryInPix, @HistoricalPics, @History_Pics, etc.)—twitter streams that do nothing more than post "old" pictures and little tidbits of captions for them. And when I say "nothing more" that's precisely what I mean. LAVA LADY Meet The Only Female Volcano-Scientist Trekking Through North Korea medium.com North Korea has a volcano. About a millennium ago, it had one of the largest eruptions in Earth's history. You probably didn't know that. And that's okay. Because North Korea is so closed off to outsiders that most people — even some scientists — have no idea. DEEP POCKETS Google To Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind For $400M recode.net Google is shelling out $400 million to buy a secretive artificial intelligence company called DeepMind. Read more on Digg.com → OKAY WE LIED Beyoncé performs onstage for the 56th Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, January 26, 2014. Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Tweet Your Way To Prison

Can A Tweet Put You In Prison?, Thousands Of Japanese Men Have A Virtual Girlfriend Named Rinko, Will This Go Faster Than Light?, How A Dog Has Lived For Eleven Thousand Years — In Other Dogs, The Woman Buried In A New Jersey Parking Lot The Daily Digg Friday, January 24, 2014 IT WILL IN THE UK Can A Tweet Put You In Prison? thedailybeast.com Tweeting racist or otherwise libelous bile can land you in jail in the UK, but the victim, as ever, is not the target of the tweet but free speech. SLOPPY SECONDS, THIRDS, FOURTHS ETC. Thousands Of Japanese Men Have A Virtual Girlfriend Named Rinko dailydot.com First, there were sex dolls. Then there were love pillows. Now the latest inanimate object to capture the hearts of the Japanese bachelor population is Rinko, the star of Love Plus, a video game that simulates the experience of being in a relationship. WARP 9, ENGAGE Will This Go Faster Than Light? digg.com Have any of these contraptions cracked the code on faster-than-light travel? DOG GOD How A Dog Has Lived For Eleven Thousand Years — In Other Dogs phenomena.nationalgeographic.com A dog that was born 11,000 years ago stumbled across the elixir of life, and is still alive today. YES, THIS SPACE IS TAKEN The Woman Buried In A New Jersey Parking Lot mentalfloss.com When Mary Ellis died in 1828, her family buried her in a peaceful patch of woods near a bend in the Raritan River. She's still there, but the trees are long gone—her body now rests in the middle of a movieplex parking lot. Read more on Digg.com → NOT A PROMO FOR 'HALF-LIFE 3' A Ukrainian protester wearing a gas mask stands amid burnt tires and garbage following clashes between pro-EU demonstrators and riot police in Kiev on January 23, 2014. Credit: GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014