Thanks, But No Thanks

We hope you've been enjoying The Daily Digg! Let us know what you think, and feel free to unsubscribe at any time. -The Digg Team The Daily Digg Wednesday, May 28, 2014 COULD STILL PLAY FOR THE METS 50 Cent Threw One Of The Worst First Pitches In Baseball History digg.com Vitamin Water never looked so ineffective. READ THIS WHILE STUCK IN TRAFFIC Your Commute Is Costing You More Than You Realize reuters.com Your commute is likely costing you much more than you realize — in driving-related expenses, in sheer number of hours on the road and in negative health outcomes. WALLETS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Get Rid Of That Pocket Bulge bellroy.com Pocket bulge is an unattractive symptom of an overcrowded wallet. Slim it down with Bellroy. THANKS BUT NO THANKS No One Wants To Host The Olympics Anymore businessinsider.com Researchers have known for years that hosting large sporting events like the Olympics always costs more than expected and always yields less revenue and useful long-term infrastructure than estimated. Now voters and politicians are starting to realize the same thing. WHERE ARE YOU FROM? America's Sources Of Immigrants Through The Years pewresearch.org With more than 40 million immigrants, the U.S. is the top destination in the world for those moving from one country to another. But throughout our history, those immigrants haven't always come from the same places. Read more on Digg.com → LITTLE MONK, BIG POLITICAL DRAMA A novice Buddhist monk stands in front of a group of protesting people in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. The small group of civil society activists staged a protest calling for an amendment to Myanmar's constitution that bans opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyia becoming the country's president. Credit: AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Worst Waiter In History

A Timeline Of How #YesAllWomen Spread On Twitter, This Dance Routine Is Unreal, The Most Comfortable Way To Be A Never-Nude, The Worst Waiter In History, Rap Genius Co-Founder Fired, Europe's Landscape Is Still Scarred By World War I The Daily Digg Tuesday, May 27, 2014 ILLUMINATING A Timeline Of How #YesAllWomen Spread On Twitter srogers.cartodb.com Watch how this weekend's hashtag activism spread. BUT HOW DID THEY LOSE? This Dance Routine Is Unreal digg.com As people who regularly trip over our own feet, we can't help but be awed by talent like this. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED The Most Comfortable Way To Be A Never-Nude meundies.com Finally, underwear you'd be proud to wear as outerwear. Oh, and with the code "DIGG" they're 20% cheaper, so don't say we never did anything for you. 'SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP' The Worst Waiter In History priceonomics.com Edsel Ford Fong routinely cussed out patrons, sexually accosted female diners, and unapologetically spilled soup on laps — and his customers came back for more. WHO WILL ANNOTATE THE PRESS RELEASE? Rap Genius Co-Founder Fired recode.net Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam has been fired from the annotation service after posting appalling comments on the memoir of mass murderer Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in a shooting spree earlier this week. SOME WOUNDS DON'T HEAL Europe's Landscape Is Still Scarred By World War I smithsonianmag.com Photographs of the abandoned battlefields reveal the trenches' scars still run deep. Read more on Digg.com → THAT ONE GUY DOESN'T NEED ANY MORE SUN Snowboarders ride the ski lift during Snowbird Ski Resort's final day of skiing and riding for the winter season, Monday, May 26, 2014, in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range, outside of Salt Lake City. Credit: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

This Is Not An Email From 2006

If you've been to Digg in the last year, you probably noticed some changes. Some big changes. One thing that has not changed, though, is your email address. Below is a preview of something we call The Daily Digg, a brief overview of our top stories delivered to your inbox. If it's not your thing, of course please unsubscribe. But if you're at all interested in finding the best and most current stories on the Internet without the clutter and noise, we think you might enjoy sticking around. Hope you're well. -The Digg Team The Daily Digg Thursday, May 22, 2014 SORRY, NO ACTUAL CATFISH INVOLVED Here's How MTV's Catfish Actually Works vulture.com Like all other reality shows, it's super contrived, but maybe not in the ways you might think. ALL IT'S MISSING IS A SARLACC This Hellish Desert Pit Has Been On Fire For More Than 40 Years smithsonianmag.com In the Turkmenistan desert, a crater dubbed "The Door to Hell" has been burning for decades. THE SIX SECONDS BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE A Vine Romance Gone Wrong rollingstone.com They were Vine's first superstars, falling in love online, and making lots of money from it. But once they met in the real world, things went horribly wrong. ONE BUILDING, ENDLESS BEAURACRACY The 11-Story Building Calling Itself A Country newrepublic.com With one 11-story building to its name, the People's Republic of Donetsk is the smallest country in the world. It must also be the most bureaucratic. THE BIG PAYBACK The Case For Reparations theatlantic.com Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. Read more on Digg.com → YOU RANG? A sloth peeks out from behind a door on a floating house in the 'Lago do Janauari' near Manaus, Brazil, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Manaus is one of the host cities for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Credit: AP Photo/Felipe Dana Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014