Beware Of Fantasy Sports

A History Of The Occult In Rock 'N' Roll, How The Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans Into Suckers, Stop Drinking Shitty Wine, The People Running Your Facebook Feed, And Other Great Stories, The Business Of Space Funerals, Why The US Should Never Host Another Olympics The Daily Digg Thursday, January 7, 2016 SGT. PEPPER'S TELL-TALE HEARTS CLUB A History Of The Occult In Rock 'N' Roll medium.com From The Beatles and the Stones to Led Zep, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath, how the dark arts cast a spell on popular music. DIGG DIALOG How The Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans Into Suckers digg.com The idea that FanDuel and DraftKings exist so that regular guys can make a lot of money playing daily fantasy sports is a lie. Join writer Jay Caspian Kang to talk about his piece on the industry, his fantasy sports losses and more today at 1pm. Leave your comments now! WINE WE DIGG SPONSORED Stop Drinking Shitty Wine clubw.com Dear valued Digg user: Because we love you (and we love you even more after a glass of wine) we want to introduce you to your next delivery obsession: Club W. Plus, get a bottle on us. Wine not? (See what we did there?) WHAT WE'RE READING THIS WEEK The People Running Your Facebook Feed, And Other Great Stories digg.com How your Facebook newsfeed gets made, how a father helped his son and his family cope with cancer through a video game, and more. THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION The Business Of Space Funerals priceonomics.com The new space age is opening niche space-borne products to the average person, like space-aged scotch and, yes, space funerals. FIVE-RING CIRCUS Why The US Should Never Host Another Olympics outsideonline.com It's expensive, demanding, and in the eyes of the many cities that have refused to throw their hats into the five-ring circus, a total scam. Get more stories on Digg.com THIS IS NOT THE SAFETY DANCE Members of a traditional firefighting preservation group perform ladder stunts during the annual New Year's Fire Brigade Review in Tokyo, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. Credit: AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko 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