Killer Traffic

Oklahoma Halts Double Execution After Botched Drug Delivery, The Seven Kingdoms In 'Game Of Thrones' Are Actually These Five Real-World Places, Stop Paying For A Sh*tty Shave, A Supercut Of Louis CK Talking About Dicks, The Curious Health Benefits Of E-ZPass, What A Toilet Hoax Can Tell Us About The Future Of Surveillance The Daily Digg Wednesday, April 30, 2014 FIRST INMATE DIED OF HEART ATTACK Oklahoma Halts Double Execution After Botched Drug Delivery hosted.ap.org Oklahoma prison officials have halted the execution of an inmate after botching the delivery of a new three-drug combination. ALL MUCH SAFER TO VISIT IRL The Seven Kingdoms In 'Game Of Thrones' Are Actually These Five Real-World Places globalpost.com Say what you will about the vaguely insane plot and ever more inventive ways of killing off characters, though, there's one element of the show that's surprisingly real: the locations. It turns out it takes less post-production tinkering than you'd expect to turn our world into the lands of Ice and Fire. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Stop Paying For A Sh*tty Shave dollarshaveclub.com Look, we're not going to ask what you plan on shaving — that's between you and your razor (and probably your significant other). But we are going to ask that you use the Dollar Shave Club to get the job done. SPOTTED DICKS A Supercut Of Louis CK Talking About Dicks digg.com "Louie" is such a brilliant show that sometimes it's hard to remember just how many dick jokes have been worked into it. Luckily we've compiled them all for you. TRAFFIC REALLY IS A KILLER The Curious Health Benefits Of E-ZPass theatlanticcities.com What if you could dramatically reduce the incidence of pre-term births with policy decisions? THIS DATA STREAM SMELLS FUNNY What A Toilet Hoax Can Tell Us About The Future Of Surveillance theatlantic.com A made-up toilet company raises legitimate questions about government data-tracking. Read more on Digg.com → KEEPING HIS EYE ON THE BALL Jiang Tianyi of Hong Kong watches the ball during his round robin match of the World Team Table Tennis Championships against Andrej Gacina of Croatia in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Vodka Pairs Nicely With Everything

Farting Means You're Healthy, How To Divide Your Rent Fairly, Using A Triangle, This Tribute To Walter White's Implosion Will Make You Miss 'Breaking Bad', Dining In The Soviet Style, Man Runs 'Beer Mile' In Under Five Minutes, What Happens When Libertarians Try To Build A New Society? The Daily Digg Tuesday, April 29, 2014 THE MORE YOU FART, THE BETTER YOU FEEL Farting Means You're Healthy npr.org Not long ago, we heard about a catchy idea for a cookbook: "Fart-free food for everybody." In theory, these recipes would be helpful for some people — and those in their vicinity. But being a bit gassy may actually be a small price to pay for a lot of benefits to our health. MAKE SURE TO COSINE THE LEASE How To Divide Your Rent Fairly, Using A Triangle nytimes.com An old mathematical proposition, Sperner's lemma, can be used to resolve thorny modern predicaments fairly. THE RISE AND FALL OF HEISENBERG This Tribute To Walter White's Implosion Will Make You Miss 'Breaking Bad' digg.com The show might have ended months ago, but this is easily one of the best supercuts chronicling Walter White's transformation. VODKA PAIRS NICELY WITH EVERYTHING Dining In The Soviet Style roadsandkingdoms.com The Russian cuisine has been battered for 70 years by a command economy, war, food shortages, communal kitchens, school and worker cafeterias, and unspeakable rivers of cheap mayonnaise. But there's one man willing to save it from its ignominious fate. AND DOESN'T PUKE Man Runs 'Beer Mile' In Under Five Minutes digg.com James Nielsen can run a mile in under five minutes. Still not impressed? He can do it even when he has to chug four beers. MASCOT: THE PORCUPINE What Happens When Libertarians Try To Build A New Society? aeon.co Libertarians are united by opposition to government, but when it comes to planning a new society they are deeply divided. Read more on Digg.com → TYPE O-BI WAN KENOBI Udomsak Ratanotayo, left, and Suttinan Boonsomkiat wear storm trooper costumes while donating blood at the Thai Red Cross in Bangkok. Credit: AP Photo: Sakchai Lalit Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Flabby Era

How Far Fitness Has Fallen, SkyMall Loses Its Captive Audience, Not Your Parents' New York Times, Clippers Stage Silent Protest, What You Missed This Weekend, How To See Without Glasses The Daily Digg Monday, April 28, 2014 THE FLABBY ERA How Far Fitness Has Fallen outsideonline.com You're pathetic. Really. According to the latest research, human fitness has decreased so dramatically in recent years that even the strongest of us would consider ancient men to be, well, monsters. SKYMALL IN FREEFALL SkyMall Loses Its Captive Audience latimes.com With passengers absorbed in their electronics, the catalog known for peddling kitschy items aims to find a digital strategy. PARTNER WE DIGG SPONSORED Not Your Parents' New York Times nytimes.com The New York Times produces some of the world's greatest video content, and now they've built a platform to match it. THE SHIRTS OFF THEIR BACKS Clippers Stage Silent Protest espn.go.com Before Game 4 against the Golden State Warriors, the Los Angeles Clippers chose to take off their shooting shirts and wear their warm up shirts inside out to protest owner Donald Sterling's alleged racist remarks. DIGG PICKS What You Missed This Weekend digg.com Steven Spielberg is making one of your favorite Roald Dahl books into a movie, excavators find E.T. in a landfill and Americans can't manage to pass their own citizenship test. SQUINTING EXPLAINED How To See Without Glasses digg.com The science behind why squinting helps us see better. Read more on Digg.com → SAFETY MASK A Taiwanese boy wears a slogan reading "Stop the 4th Nuclear Power Plant. Give Power Back to People," during a protest against the construction of Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant to be completed in Taipei. Credit: AP Photo: Chiang Ying-ying 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: A Death-Cult, A Very Literal Science Experiment And A Newly-Minted Grandpa

How To Get An Egg In A Bottle, This Bike Lock Is Unpickable, 'The Candidate' Is As Close As We're Going To Get To A Modern 'Twilight Zone', Proof Parents Can Do Superhuman Things When Their Kids Are In Danger, This Man's Adorable Reaction To Finding Out He's Going To Be A Grandpa, This Man Is A Machine At Cutting Watermelons The Daily Digg Sunday, April 27, 2014 SCIENCE FEELS... WET How To Get An Egg In A Bottle digg.com You may think you've seen this trick performed before, but this is a much faster and easier solution. BETTER GET THE BOLT CUTTERS NOW This Bike Lock Is Unpickable digg.com The "forever lock" is as clever as it is confusing. We can't really do it justice, just watch how it operates and be amazed. NO, THE 2002 REVIVAL DOESN'T COUNT 'The Candidate' Is As Close As We're Going To Get To A Modern 'Twilight Zone' digg.com With a cast hailing from "Wolf of Wall Street" to "Star Trek: Voyager," half the fun of this suspenseful short is trying to spot all the great character actors. ADORABLE CAR ACCIDENTS Proof Parents Can Do Superhuman Things When Their Kids Are In Danger digg.com Dads might generally be out of shape, but, when you need them, they bring the speed. THERE'S A LITTLE DUST IN OUR EYES This Man's Adorable Reaction To Finding Out He's Going To Be A Grandpa digg.com He may never see the Cubs win the World Series, but now he knows the joy of having a grandchild. YOU WOULD JUST CUT YOUR HAND OFF This Man Is A Machine At Cutting Watermelons digg.com Next time you spend an inordinate amount of time trying to dissect a watermelon, remember that people like this guy exist. Read more on Digg.com → FOUL BALL GE continues to break stuff for our entertainment. This one reminds us of those time lapses of exotic plants growing, combined with someone popping a massive zit. Credit: Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

What It Pays To Risk It All

The Business Of Everest, What Your Body Type Says About Your Sex Life, According To Science, This Baseball Being Squashed Is Oddly Satisfying, The Utopian Origins Of Restroom Symbols, You Can Hire A Professional Pickup Artist To Run Your Tinder Profile, What We Learned This Week The Daily Digg Friday, April 25, 2014 WHAT IT PAYS TO RISK IT ALL The Business Of Everest businessweek.com 400 to 500 adventurers travel to Nepal and China each year to test their mettle on the world's tallest mountain, and they pay big money for the privilege. THERE IS A RULE ABOUT HANDS AND PENISES What Your Body Type Says About Your Sex Life, According To Science nerve.com Do you have big hips? You probably like one-night stands. FOUL BALL This Baseball Being Squashed Is Oddly Satisfying digg.com GE continues to break stuff for our entertainment. This one reminds us of those time lapses of exoctic plants growing, combined with someone popping a massive zit. FIGURATIVE HISTORY The Utopian Origins Of Restroom Symbols theatlantic.com A new book spotlights the creation and many applications of Isotype, the modernist visual language that lives on in signage all around us. HUMANITY HITS A NEW LOW You Can Hire A Professional Pickup Artist To Run Your Tinder Profile dailydot.com If the platonic ideal of a pick-up artist fedoradouche got his soul uploaded onto a computer and made into a website, this would be that website. DIGG PICKS What We Learned This Week digg.com This week we learned how much doctors make, what life as a drug dealer is like, and why the NYPD should never, ever tweet again. Read more on Digg.com → OCEANS OF PRAYER A Buddhist monk prays wishing for safe return of passengers aboard the sunken ferry boat Sewol at a port in Jindo, South Korea. Divers made their way deeper into the submerged wreck of a ferry that sank more than a week ago as the death toll neared 160 and relatives of the more than 140 still missing pressed the government to finish the grim task of recovery soon. Credit: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014