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Why An Imperfect Version Of Proust Is A Classic In English, VIDEO: How To Remove A Wasp Infestation With A Shop Vac, Having A Threesome Is Harder Than It Looks, How It Feels To Be Circumcised As An Adult, New ARM-Powered Chip Aims For Battery Life Measured In Decades, GLaDOS And The Sniper: A Voice Acting Love Story The Daily Digg Tuesday, March 31, 2015 IN SEARCH OF LOST WORDS Why An Imperfect Version Of Proust Is A Classic In English newyorker.com Mostly thanks to C. K. Scott Montcrieff, Proust is part of the common reader's experience in English. But the ease of Moncrieff's translations also started a fistfight, ongoing, about whether his Proust is Proust, near Proust, Anglicized Proust, or not Proust at all. BUG HOLOCAUST VIDEO: How To Remove A Wasp Infestation With A Shop Vac digg.com With a shop vac, some water, dish soap and a bit of scaffolding you can get rid of an entire (extremely angry) yellowjacket or wasp colony without using chemicals. Skip to 4:10 for the aftermath/carnage. UNDERWEAR WE DIGG SPONSORED Having A Threesome Is Harder Than It Looks meundies.com Okay, it already looks kind of hard, but seriously, a lot more goes into a threesome than just three sets of genitals. Don't believe us? Check it out for yourself. NO ONE'S FORESKIN YOU TO DO IT How It Feels To Be Circumcised As An Adult vice.com There are three reasons a man gets circumcised after infancy: for cosmetic reasons, for medical reasons, or as part of a religious rite of passage. CHARGING AHEAD New ARM-Powered Chip Aims For Battery Life Measured In Decades arstechnica.com The number of things getting plugged into the "Internet of Things" has already reached the point of satire. But there's a new, extremely low power technology that's being prepared for market that could put computing power and network access into a whole new class of sensors, wearables and practically disposable devices. THE WEDDING CAKE IS A LIE GLaDOS And The Sniper: A Voice Acting Love Story motherboard.vice.com Ellen and John, both 62, are arguably the original voice actor celebrities in a medium that has long been stingy in knighting any of its creative personnel with recognition. Get more stories on Digg.com → AFTER THE DELUGE Kashmiri women wail and rush towards the body of a relative, victim of a landslide, as the same is recovered in the village of Laden some 45 Kilometers (28 miles) west of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Monday, March 30, 2015. Hundreds of Kashmiris in both India and Pakistan moved to higher ground Monday as rain-swollen rivers swamped parts of the disputed Himalayan region placed under an emergency flood alert just six months after some 600 people died in flooding that left the region in shambles. Credit: AP Photo/Dar Yasin Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Uncertainty Reigns

Why Country Rules the Airwaves, 'Hey, At Least We're Not The Mafia', Getting Out Of Jail Free, And Other News, VIDEO: Israeli Students Built A Rube Goldberg Machine Of Biblical Proportions To Celebrate Passover, Six Seconds That Shaped 1,500 Songs, The FBI Would Like Us All To Unencrypt Our Phones The Daily Digg Monday, March 30, 2015 IT'S THEIR COUNTRY, WE'RE JUST LIVING IN IT Why Country Rules the Airwaves wired.com It wasn't inevitable that country music would thrive in the globalized world of perpetual Facebook updates, a world whose frenetic pace can be felt in electronica, or whose nouveau riche aspirations are extolled in hip-hop. But here we are. WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY 'Hey, At Least We're Not The Mafia' medium.com Payday lenders have a horrifying — yet effective  — approach to lobbying. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Getting Out Of Jail Free, And Other News digg.com The inmates ran the asylum, the modern cowboy spoke, and the government shackled our llamas. PUTTING MATZO TO GOOD USE VIDEO: Israeli Students Built A Rube Goldberg Machine Of Biblical Proportions To Celebrate Passover digg.com What better way to commemorate the Passover then by recreating the story in a giant Rube Goldberg machine? Don't worry, the Plague of Blood and Plague of Frogs don't seem to be real. THE UR-SAMPLE Six Seconds That Shaped 1,500 Songs bbc.com "Amen, Brother" was a little-known B-side released in 1969. Barely noticed at the time, its drum solo has been hugely influential, appearing in different forms in more than 1,500 other songs — but the band behind it never made any money from it. PLEASE AND THANK YOU The FBI Would Like Us All To Unencrypt Our Phones gizmodo.com When Apple decided to encrypt its iPhones by default, the move was hailed as a major step forward for security. Except, of course, by the FBI, which is now saying that such encryption should be outlawed. For the safety of Americans, of course. Get more stories on Digg.com → GHOST STORIES A hooded penitent from"La Borriquita" brotherhood takes part during a Holy Week procession in Cordoba, Spain, Sunday, March 29, 2015. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. Credit: AP Photo/Manu Fernandez Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

This Week's Best Videos: Tug Of War On A Boat, One Man's Endless String Of Puns And A Chameleon Tongue In Slow Motion

Playing Tug Of War On A Boat, Guy Annoys His Co-Worker With Horrible Puns, How James May Is Handling Unemployment, Snoop Dogg And Hulk Hogan Are The Best Tag Team Ever, An Example. Of. The NPR Podcast. Voice. And Why It's. So Annoying, Chameleon Tongues Are Even Grosser In Slow Motion The Daily Digg Sunday, March 29, 2015 NO, WE'RE GOING *THIS* WAY Playing Tug Of War On A Boat digg.com One boat. A dozen rowers. And the single most ineffective use of a boat. HEY ANDREW Guy Annoys His Co-Worker With Horrible Puns digg.com This man is a hero. Well, our hero anyway. 'I'M HERE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE' How James May Is Handling Unemployment digg.com Today James May started a YouTube channel and called it "JM's unemployment tube." By the looks of this single, unlisted video, he's already getting a little stir crazy. THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE Snoop Dogg And Hulk Hogan Are The Best Tag Team Ever digg.com It doesn't matter if wrestling is fake, our Snulkamania is real!!!!! WILLIAM SHATNER SCHOOL OF BROADCAST An Example. Of. The NPR Podcast. Voice. And Why It's. So Annoying digg.com As the creator of this clips puts it: "All my favorite US podcasts are being ruined by this universally adopted affectation. 'Planet money,' 'This American Life,' 'Radiolab,' 'Startup'... Why? Why would you do this? Please stop. It's so boring." CAN BLOW THE FIERCEST RASPBERRIES Chameleon Tongues Are Even Grosser In Slow Motion digg.com When feeding, chameleons ballistically project their tongues, and those tongues can be over twice the length of a chameleon's entire body. If you were an insect, this would be your worst nightmare. Get more stories on Digg.com → WARP SPEED Everyone knows you can spectacularly ruin a CD in a microwave, but ramping up the RPMs has a similar effect. Credit: Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Breakfast Is Not Important

The Overhyped, Unsexy Reality Of Virtual Porn, A Bewildering Crash, Breakfast Is Not The Most Important Meal Of The Day And Other Facts, An Oral History Of 'NewsRadio,' The Sitcom That Broke All The Rules, Living In The Hidden Tunnels Of Las Vegas, Life On The Street Where Paul Stine Was Murdered The Daily Digg Friday, March 27, 2015 NSFW (CARTOON BONERS AND BOOBS) The Overhyped, Unsexy Reality Of Virtual Porn medium.com A four-month quest to experience porn's overhyped virtual-reality future. OUT OF THIN AIR A Bewildering Crash newyorker.com How do we reckon with a pilot, flying a plane full of people to their deaths, seemingly without motive? WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Breakfast Is Not The Most Important Meal Of The Day And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned breakfast is unimportant, there are nearly 200 people running for president and the crucial difference between white oak and red oak. BREAKING RADIO SILENCE An Oral History Of 'NewsRadio,' The Sitcom That Broke All The Rules uproxx.com The story of the five-season run of "NewsRadio" on NBC is so full of intrigue and drama that it could be its own series. UNDER THE STRIP Living In The Hidden Tunnels Of Las Vegas digg.com Matthew O'Brien, an expert on the underground flood channels of Las Vegas, makes one of his regular visits to the tunnels with the Seeker team to experience the hardship, lifestyle, and creativity of those who live in them. THE ZODIAC WAS HERE Life On The Street Where Paul Stine Was Murdered ratter.com The Paul Stine murder might be among the Zodiac's most infamous. It fell last in the string of a rapid succession of murders over the course of a few months in 1969, and is considered to be the final murder that can, without reservation, be attributed to the Zodiac. Get more stories on Digg.com → PUP IN ARMS A basenji puppy looks out as he is held by a soldier watching the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment parade in Hyde Park in London, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Yo Dawg

Wanted: Somebody To Go Back In Time With Me, NASA's Plan To Give The Moon A Moon, Yes, There's A Netflix For LEGO, Take These Broken Wings, A Porn Star Twitter War Might Set A Precedent For Future Cyberbullying Victims, The Tallest Tower In Europe Will Be ... In A Quaint Swiss Village? The Daily Digg Thursday, March 26, 2015 REGRET, MURDER AND INTERNET MEMES Wanted: Somebody To Go Back In Time With Me digg.com This week on the Reply All podcast, Radiolab's Lynn Levy looks at a story of Internet memes, murder, regret, and time travel.​ YO DAWG, I HEARD YOU LIKE MOONS NASA's Plan To Give The Moon A Moon wired.com It sounds almost like a late '90s sci-fi flick: NASA sends a spacecraft to an asteroid, plucks a boulder off its surface with a robotic claw, and brings it back in orbit around the moon BRICKS WE DIGG SPONSORED Yes, There's A Netflix For LEGO pley.com We've all been at the mercy of Big LEGO for too long. But no more! Pley has found a way to get more LEGO into your hands for less. Now nothing — especially your bank account — can get in the way of your LEGO time. INTO THE SCRUM Take These Broken Wings sbnation.com Delvin McMillian lost both hands and feet at the age of 21. But the hardest thing he has ever done was fight for a spot on the US Paralympic wheelchair rugby national team. JUSTICE OF THE CODPIECE A Porn Star Twitter War Might Set A Precedent For Future Cyberbullying Victims dailydot.com What do camels, anti-SLAPP motions, and awards show red carpet brawls have in common? They're all part of a legal saga between two of porn's biggest names, Lisa Ann and Nikki Benz. THE PERFECT YODEL PODIUM The Tallest Tower In Europe Will Be ... In A Quaint Swiss Village? gizmodo.com A new tower designed by Los Angeles architect Thom Mayne was announced today which, when complete, will be the tallest building in Europe. Is it in Moscow? London? Frankfurt? Nope. Mayne's shiny slab will stab the sky in the tiny hamlet of Vals, Switzerland. Get more stories on Digg.com → UP IN SMOKE A plume of ash and steam rises from the crater of the Popocatepetl volcano as seen from the town of San Nicolas de los Ranchos, Mexico, early Wednesday, March 25, 2015. During the last 24 hours, activity at the volcano has increased moderately but the alert level remains unchanged. Credit: AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014