What Is This, A City For Ants?

A City Built On Sand Is A Monument To China's Problems, The Internet's Best Hoax Slayer, Hot Tip: You Could Be Earning 100x More Interest On Your Checking Account, Paula Broadwell, David Petraeus And The Afterlife Of A Scandal, WATCH: How The Naked Cowboy Makes His $150,000 Per Year, The Trailers For The New 'Ghostbusters' And The Art of Editing Comedy The Daily Digg Monday, May 30, 2016 NEW AREA, SAME OLD ISSUES A City Built On Sand Is A Monument To China's Problems washingtonpost.com Lanzhou New Area is supposed to be the "diamond" on China's Silk Road Economic Belt, a new metropolis carved out of the mountains in the country's arid northwest. But it's shaping up to be fool's gold, a ghost city in the making. INTERNET SCAMMERS HATE HIM The Internet's Best Hoax Slayer kernelmag.dailydot.com Thirteen years ago, Brett Christensen was the victim of an email hoax. Since then, he's dedicated himself to preventing the same fate for others. INVESTMENTS WE DIGG SPONSORED Hot Tip: You Could Be Earning 100x More Interest On Your Checking Account aspiration.com The Summit Account from Aspiration lets you earn up to 100x more interest on your checking account. Plus, they have no monthly service fees and free access to every ATM in the world. AFTER THE NEWS BREAKS Paula Broadwell, David Petraeus And The Afterlife Of A Scandal nytimes.com For Petraeus, the affair is a footnote to an otherwise celebrated career. But for Broadwell — not as decorated, not as public, but still accomplished in her own right — it has become a lasting stain. A SIX STRING AND A SIX PACK WATCH: How The Naked Cowboy Makes His $150,000 Per Year digg.com Think of an American music icon who's built an empire on being mostly naked in public. No, not Madonna. We're talking about the Naked Cowboy. SIGHT GAGS The Trailers For The New 'Ghostbusters' And The Art of Editing Comedy medium.com Tony Zhou from YouTube's Every Frame A Painting breaks down the film editing in the US and UK trailers for the new "Ghostbusters" and how editors can make or break a joke. Get more stories on Digg.com THERE'S NORWAY WE'RE DOING THAT Drone footage of people BASE jumping off cliffs in Norway looks totally nuts. Credit: Espen Hatleskog 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

You'll Want To Reschedule Those Beach Plans After Seeing This Footage

A Reminder That The Ocean Is A Big, Terrifying Place, Tesla Model X Beats A Supercar In A Race... While Towing A 4,000 Pound Trailer, How To Get Prescription Glasses For $24, Lions Lick The Water Off The Outside Of Tent While Stone Cold Camper Is Still Inside, Finally, A Neodymium Magnet Defeats The Hydraulic Press, 11 Minutes Of The Trippiest Animation You'll See All Day, Courtesy Of Adult Swim The Daily Digg Sunday, May 29, 2016 WE'LL STICK WITH THE WAVE POOL A Reminder That The Ocean Is A Big, Terrifying Place digg.com This footage from a ship in Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, is a good reminder that going into rough seas is not for the faint of heart. OH COME ON Tesla Model X Beats A Supercar In A Race... While Towing A 4,000 Pound Trailer digg.com Tesla's absurd acceleration tends to make drag races against other cars an unfair fight. So to make things a little bit more competitive, Motor Trend Channel strapped a trailer carrying an Alfa Romeo 4C to a Model X and raced it against another Alfa Romeo. GLASSES WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Get Prescription Glasses For $24 glassesusa.com GlassesUSA has direct-to-consumer pricing, free shipping and a huge selection of designer frames. Use promo code FREEDOM to get 50% off your order before 5/31! REMAIN VERY, VERY QUIET Lions Lick The Water Off The Outside Of Tent While Stone Cold Camper Is Still Inside digg.com We have no idea how this guy kept it together. THE CHAMP HAS FALLEN Finally, A Neodymium Magnet Defeats The Hydraulic Press digg.com Hydraulic presses have been destroying object after object without pity, but this huge neodymium magnet actually stands up to the big brute. SHAPES, MAN 11 Minutes Of The Trippiest Animation You'll See All Day, Courtesy Of Adult Swim digg.com Just like a real drug-fueled experience: some of it's good, some of it's bad, all of it's weird. Get more stories on Digg.com SOME BLOODY SHOTS Drone footage of shark feeding frenzy has us reconsidering our beach plans. Credit: Eco Albrolhos via CNET Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10002

Chromebook > MacBook?

A Chromebook Is Probably Better Than A Mac And Other Facts, Why Silicon Valley's Giants Want Us To Live Forever, Sci-Fi Classics That Accurately Predicted The Future, The Founder Of Know Your Meme Explains What The Hell A Meme Actually Is, The Dream (Or Fantasy) Of Black Lacrosse, How To Grill Just About Everything For Memorial Day The Daily Digg Friday, May 27, 2016 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK A Chromebook Is Probably Better Than A Mac And Other Facts digg.com Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Chromebooks are good, Trump's hair is a weave and big waves are scary. THE HYPE IS IMMORTAL Why Silicon Valley's Giants Want Us To Live Forever nautil.us Despite the hyperbole, private funding is changing the science of aging for the better. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ELGATO SPONSORED Sci-Fi Classics That Accurately Predicted The Future digg.com Did you know a kid's cartoon show accurately predicted 3D-printed food in 1962? Check out what else these science-fiction classics got eerily right about today's technology. IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A MEME, IT'S DAT BOI The Founder Of Know Your Meme Explains What The Hell A Meme Actually Is vice.com For starters, "'meme" and 'viral' were two separate things." LAX ON DIVERSITY The Dream (Or Fantasy) Of Black Lacrosse theundefeated.com Participation is booming, but diversity is static in the sport. Why can't lacrosse get past its reputation? LIFE COALS How To Grill Just About Everything For Memorial Day digg.com Memorial day, what with its nice weather, is the first big grilling weekend of the year. Why slave away in a hot kitchen on a beautiful day when you can toil over an open flame in the pounding sunshine for hours? It's the American way! Get more stories on Digg.com SHAPES, MAN Here's 11 minutes of the trippiest animation you'll see all week. Credit: Adult Swim 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

This Email Is Actually A Time Capsule From The Year 1916

The Inevitable, Intergalactic Awkwardness Of Time Capsules, Amish Could Help Us Navigate Our Broken Healthcare System, And Other Stories, Get This Luxury Mattress Delivered Right To Your Door, The Surreal Saga Of Bobby Shmurda, How To Waste $140 Million, How 'Everything' Became The Highest Form Of Praise The Daily Digg Thursday, May 26, 2016 ARE WE BETTER OFF WITH BROKEN RECORDS? The Inevitable, Intergalactic Awkwardness Of Time Capsules atlasobscura.com A close examination of the Voyager Golden Records reveals the one flaw behind all attempts to bottle history: humans. WHAT WE'RE READING THIS WEEK Amish Could Help Us Navigate Our Broken Healthcare System, And Other Stories digg.com What we can learn from Amish healthcare, the super secret Hollywood Republican society, and messy messy campus politics. MATTRESSES WE DIGG SPONSORED Get This Luxury Mattress Delivered Right To Your Door leesa.com Affordable, easy to get, and a hell of a lot more comfortable than the hand-me-down you're sleeping on. Use the promo code DIGG75 for a $100 Memorial Day offer. Expires 5.30.16. AFTER THE SHMONEY DANCE The Surreal Saga Of Bobby Shmurda gq.com The government's case against Bobby Shmurda, now heading to trial, raises all kinds of nagging questions, but none more troubling than this: Does the justice system fundamentally misunderstand the world of rap? THAT SINKING FEELING How To Waste $140 Million read.atavist.com How a Chinese billionaire's dream of making an underwater fantasy blockbuster turned into a legendary movie fiasco. THIS STORY IS EVERYTHING How 'Everything' Became The Highest Form Of Praise nytimes.com "When you call something 'everything,' you are taking the celestial view: gazing down from an Olympian perch, knowing and feeling and seeing all." Get more stories on Digg.com GET IN THE DAMN BOAT, DAD Special effects transform playground fun into a thrilling action movie sequence. Credit: Action Movie Kid 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