Please Don't Rob A Bank

How Obama Became The Gay-Rights President, Man Starts Amazing Train Dance Party With Wit And Charm, How To Do More With Less, The Navy's Newest Ship Doesn't Know What The Hell It Is, Players Don't Care About NFL Fines, Still Wearing Beats Headphones, A Retired English Gangster Explains How To Rob A Bank The Daily Digg Monday, October 13, 2014 'WELL, WHAT'S STONEWALL?' How Obama Became The Gay-Rights President newrepublic.com The inside story of a personal evolution. SOUL TRAIN Man Starts Amazing Train Dance Party With Wit And Charm digg.com He came dressed to party, and dammit, that's what he's going to do. STUFF WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Do More With Less reductivist.com What if you could carry around every tool in your toolbox on your keychain? Thanks to the Reductivist Ringtool, now you can. It's the solution to basically any problem you can think of. CONFUSION ABOARD THE USS AMERICA The Navy's Newest Ship Doesn't Know What The Hell It Is foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com Is it an aircraft carrier? Is it an amphibious assault ship? Is it any good at either of those things? BEATS VS. BOSE Players Don't Care About NFL Fines, Still Wearing Beats Headphones deadspin.com Wearing the wrong headphones will cost players $10,000. That's clearly not enough to deter them, and it's a goddamned bargain for this sort of advertising. DISCLAIMER: PLEASE DON'T ROB A BANK A Retired English Gangster Explains How To Rob A Bank vice.com It's vitally important to grab the attention of everybody in the bank at the very outset. Read more on Digg.com → THREE'S A MAGIC NUMBER? A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Villa 14 de Septiembre, in the Chapare region, Bolivia, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014. Bolivia is holding general and presidential elections Sunday with President Evo Morales appearing to be headed to an unprecedented third term. Credit: AP Photo/Juan Karita 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: Second Graders Eat At A Fancy Restaurant, A Tesla Drives Itself And The Best Fighter Jet Footage Ever

This Video Of Second Graders Being Treated To A $220 Seven-Course Tasting Menu Is Utterly Delightful, An Amazing Shot-For-Shot Remake Of 'The Empire Strikes Back' In 480 Different Styles, Testing Out Autopilot In The Tesla P85D, This Cop Does Everything He Can To Trick Driver Into Saying He Has Weed, 'The Price Is Right' Contestant Has Clearly Never Seen 'The Price Is Right', The Best Four Minutes Of Warplane Footage You'll Ever Watch The Daily Digg Sunday, October 12, 2014 WE JUST WANT TO EAT THEM UP This Video Of Second Graders Being Treated To A $220 Seven-Course Tasting Menu Is Utterly Delightful digg.com As part of their Food issue, the New York Times Magazine sent six second graders from Brooklyn's PS 295 to dinner at Daniel, one of New York's fanciest restaurants. Each kid was served a seven-course tasting menu that goes for $220 a person. 480 FANS > 1 GEORGE LUCAS An Amazing Shot-For-Shot Remake Of 'The Empire Strikes Back' In 480 Different Styles digg.com With more than 480 fan-made segments culled from over 1,500 submissions, "The Empire Strikes Back Uncut" features a stunning mash-up of styles and filmmaking techniques, including live action, animation, and stop-motion. The project launched in 2013 with fans claiming 15-second scenes to reimagine as they saw fit‚ resulting in sequences created with everything from action figures to cardboard props to stunning visual effects. WE WANT THE D Testing Out Autopilot In The Tesla P85D digg.com This car is driving itself. The future is here. DON'T PROFILE DISC GOLFERS This Cop Does Everything He Can To Trick Driver Into Saying He Has Weed digg.com A man in Ankeny, Iowa was pulled over for not having his headlights on, but after the cop notices that he has a "Frisbee golf" bag in the car, he attempts to get the driver to admit he has weed on him using every single bullshit trick he knows. THE PRICE IS SO VERY WRONG 'The Price Is Right' Contestant Has Clearly Never Seen 'The Price Is Right' digg.com Or he just shops at extremely, extremely expensive places. FINALLY A PLANE VIDEO WITHOUT DUBSTEP The Best Four Minutes Of Warplane Footage You'll Ever Watch digg.com This is simply the best aerial photography we've seen since... well, ever. Read more on Digg.com → SHARP SHOOTING The holy grail of high speed photography. A shot of mythical technical expertise where a pellet pierces a water droplet in midair. And now you'll know how it's done. Credit: Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Pop A Squat

The Most Expensive Stuff You Can Buy At New York Comic Con, Life Inside A Brooklyn Squat, Why Are Cats Dicks?, Amazon Must Be Stopped, What Ping-Pong Means In America, What We Learned This Week The Daily Digg Friday, October 10, 2014 STACKS ON STACKS The Most Expensive Stuff You Can Buy At New York Comic Con digg.com Got $3.2 million to burn? BED-STUY: SQUAT OR DIE Life Inside A Brooklyn Squat digg.com With rents across New York City continuing their dizzying skyward trajectory, there's at least one defiant population which has found a way to make the city work for them. Filmmaker Jeff Seal spent some time hanging out with a group of squatters who, for a time, took over a crumbling three-story apartment building in Brooklyn. DRAWING THE NEWS Why Are Cats Dicks? digg.com Sorry, cat lovers. But your feline friend is more like a frenemy. RELEASING BAD PHONES WON'T KILL THEM Amazon Must Be Stopped newrepublic.com It's too big. It's cannibalizing the economy. It's time for a radical plan. THE IMMIGRANT SPORT What Ping-Pong Means In America deadspin.com A ping-pong tournament can be a refreshingly disorienting experience, particularly for an American fan of "American" sports. DIGG PICKS What We Learned This Week digg.com This week we learned about the time Apple made something called "the skankphone," why bigger traffic lanes aren't better and what it's like to film a Hollywood sex scene. Read more on Digg.com → CARNIVAL NIGHT ZONE A Sonic the Hedgehog character, left, and a Knuckles character attend the first day of New York Comic Con at the Javits Convention Center, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Over The Top

How Much Will It Cost To Fight ISIS?, 'The Price Is Right' Contestant Has Clearly Never Seen 'The Price Is Right', What Kids Eat For Breakfast Around The World, Meet Amsterdam's 71-Year-Old Jewish Twin (Retired) Prostitutes, An Infinitely More Badass Way To Cross A Bridge, Your Supplements Can Kill You The Daily Digg Thursday, October 9, 2014 WOULD YOU SUPPORT AN ISIS TAX? How Much Will It Cost To Fight ISIS? bostonglobe.com Twelve years ago we stumbled into a war in Iraq with little thought as to how much it would cost or how we might pay for it. Trillions of dollars later, we are about to wade into another protracted conflict, and once again there is no financial strategy. THE PRICE IS SO VERY WRONG 'The Price Is Right' Contestant Has Clearly Never Seen 'The Price Is Right' digg.com Or he just shops at extremely, extremely expensive places. RISE AND SHINE What Kids Eat For Breakfast Around The World nytimes.com Children all over the world eat cornflakes and drink chocolate milk, of course, but in many places they also eat things that would strike the average American palate as strange, or worse. MEET THE FOKKENS Meet Amsterdam's 71-Year-Old Jewish Twin (Retired) Prostitutes haaretz.com Martine and Louise Fokkens are local celebrities in Holland, but their 50 years working in the Red Light District came with a price. OVER THE TOP An Infinitely More Badass Way To Cross A Bridge digg.com This isn't Mario Kart. You can't just ride on top of the rails like it's Mushroom Bridge. But this stuntman doesn't seem to care. SHOULD BE CALLED HEALTH DETRIMENTS Your Supplements Can Kill You vox.com In the past, people looking to get high on designer drugs had to seek them out, knowingly risking their health on products like "bath salts." Now, new research suggests that many consumers may be unknowingly ingesting similar untested designer stimulants — because over-the-counter nutrition supplements can be laced with them. Read more on Digg.com → LOOK OUT FOR BLOOD WEREWOLVES A red moon appears above the Moscow river in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. The moon appears orange or red, the result of sunlight scattering off Earth's atmosphere. This is known as the blood moon. Credit: AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Limits Of Friendship

How Nuclear Explosions Were Used To Save The Environment, Guy Torments Girlfriend With 'Lord Of The Rings' Quotes, So You Wanna Donate But Don't Know Where To Start, The Limits Of Friendship, The World's Biggest Land, Sea And Air Vehicles, The Cure For Sore Muscles Is Trying To Make Your Muscles Sore Again The Daily Digg Wednesday, October 8, 2014 HALF LIFE IS BETTER THAN NO LIFE How Nuclear Explosions Were Used To Save The Environment nautil.us It seems strange to us now to think of nuclear bombs as just another tool for engineers to shape our environment. We have to think back to the post-War mindset, enthusiastic for all things nuclear, when people on both sides of the Iron Curtain thought our cities, cars, and lives would soon draw their power from splitting or combining atoms. FLY, YOU FOOL Guy Torments Girlfriend With 'Lord Of The Rings' Quotes digg.com We don't even want to know what he's going to say about the engagement ring. CHARITIES WE DIGG SPONSORED So You Wanna Donate But Don't Know Where To Start dollaraday.co Everyone wants to give more to charity, but often we don't know where to begin. Thankfully Dollar A Day is here to help you help. THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR UN-FRIENDING The Limits Of Friendship newyorker.com Social networks have pushed us to — and perhaps beyond — the limits of human friendship. ALSO THE WORLD'S BIGGEST INFOGRAPHIC The World's Biggest Land, Sea And Air Vehicles digg.com We know size doesn't matter (right? right?), but we're still enamored with giant machines. RECOVERY IS A MYTH The Cure For Sore Muscles Is Trying To Make Your Muscles Sore Again outsideonline.com Throw away your ice packs and ibuprofen if you want to recover right. Read more on Digg.com → BUT CAN IT PLAY DARTS? A model plays ping-pong with OMRON Corp.'s three-legged robot during the CEATEC Japan advanced technologies show in Chiba, near Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. Despite its intimidating spider-like resemblance, OMRON Corp.'s robot is a relaxed ping pong playmate. It watches its human opponent to predict the ball's path. Credit: AP Photo/Koji Sasahara Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014