This Week' Best Videos: Curious Painting, Charming Impressions And A Very Short Fireworks Display

You'll Think This Daughter Is Just Being Difficult Until The Very End, You Won't Regret Watching This Kickass Hand-Drawn Music Video, This Painting Is Not What It Seems, This Incredibly Charming Song Is Made Up Of 29 Flawless Celebrity Impressions, This Chinese Worker Is Incredibly Fast At Assembling Transformers, The Best Way To Use Two Empty Jars The Daily Digg Sunday, July 6, 2014 'THE PERFECT DAUGHTER' You'll Think This Daughter Is Just Being Difficult Until The Very End digg.com Who knew a home improvement ad could be this good? NSFW You Won't Regret Watching This Kickass Hand-Drawn Music Video digg.com A dirty blues rock song deserves a video this spooky. Get lost in the excellent 'Sin City'-style art. PERSPECTIVE This Painting Is Not What It Seems digg.com Here's a really neat optical illusion done through a painting. DAAAAAAAAAAANNNGGGGGG This Incredibly Charming Song Is Made Up Of 29 Flawless Celebrity Impressions digg.com It's rare we can say that every single part of something is totally spot-on but Rob Cantor totally nails all of these. Even Billie Holiday. F*CK YOU, ROBOTS This Chinese Worker Is Incredibly Fast At Assembling Transformers digg.com A Chinese girl puts together transformers extraordinarily quickly. WARNING: THE SOUND IS A BIT JARRING The Best Way To Use Two Empty Jars digg.com Your new favorite sound can be made using only two glass jars. Wow, so cool! Read more on Digg.com → WARNING: EXTREMELY LOUD Due to a computer malfunction, here's 7,000 fireworks going off at the same time. Credit: Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Neither Fire Nor Crack

10 Facts About Firecrackers That Will [ANY NUMBER OF EXPLOSION JOKES], Happy 4th, America. Here's 7,000 Fireworks Going Off At The Same Time, The Jet With A 17-Ton Telescope That NASA Uses As A Flying Observatory, How 9/11 Made The Global Helium Shortage Worse, You'll Think This Daughter Is Just Being Difficult Until The Very End, The Frothiest Segment Of The Beer Market The Daily Digg Friday, July 4, 2014 1) THEY ARE NEITHER FIRE NOR CRACK 10 Facts About Firecrackers That Will [ANY NUMBER OF EXPLOSION JOKES] collectorsweekly.com Firecrackers are essentially un-American, even though we associate them our most deeply patriotic celebration, the Fourth of July. The fact is that firecrackers are foreign-born novelties, and have been as long as Americans have lit them for a noisy salute to the nation's birth. VERY, VERY LOUD Happy 4th, America. Here's 7,000 Fireworks Going Off At The Same Time digg.com Due to a computer malfunction, this might hold the record as the world's shortest fireworks display. THE GIANT EYE IN THE SKY The Jet With A 17-Ton Telescope That NASA Uses As A Flying Observatory wired.com If you thought Boeing 747s weren't useful for understanding how stars are formed, you don't know about SOFIA. TERRORISTS HATE HIGH PITCHED VOICES How 9/11 Made The Global Helium Shortage Worse popsci.com Hopefully a solution will not float out of reach. 'THE PERFECT DAUGHTER' You'll Think This Daughter Is Just Being Difficult Until The Very End digg.com Who knew a home improvement ad could be this good? TAP THAT The Frothiest Segment Of The Beer Market qz.com The U.S. beer business is booming, thanks to a growing number of craft beer bars. And they're helping sell a lot of drinks packaged in barrels or kegs. Read more on Digg.com → WE'VE DONE SOMETHING TO OFFEND NATURE Residents along the coast of North Carolina are bracing for the arrival of the Hurricane Arthur, which threatens to give the state a glancing blow on Independence Day. Credit: AP Photo/Wilmington Star-News, Mike Spencer Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Truth About Tinder

Quantum State May Be A Real Thing, The Truth About Tinder and Women Is Even Worse Than You Think, The Best Way To Use Two Empty Jars, Welcome To The Traffic Capital Of The World, What To Do With An Exploding Whale, Fox News Rips Off 'BioShock Infinite' Logo, Irony Ensues The Daily Digg Thursday, July 3, 2014 STARING INTO THE ABYSS OF PHYSICS Quantum State May Be A Real Thing arstechnica.com Physicists summon up their courage and go after the nature of reality. WHITNEY WOLFE, SEXISM AND CREATION MYTHS The Truth About Tinder and Women Is Even Worse Than You Think businessweek.com Was Whitney Wolfe a cofounder of Tinder? I think the answer exposes a different, quieter, but no less punishing form of the sexism that is pervasive in the startup world. WARNING: THE SOUND IS A BIT JARRING The Best Way To Use Two Empty Jars digg.com Your new favorite sound can be made using only two glass jars. Wow, so cool! GRIDLOCK WISDOM Welcome To The Traffic Capital Of The World newrepublic.com What I learned from the crippling gridlock in Dhaka, Bangladesh. BLUBBER ABOUT IT What To Do With An Exploding Whale digg.com When a dead whale washes ashore, it ruins everybody's holiday plans. IS BECK COMSTOCK? Fox News Rips Off 'BioShock Infinite' Logo, Irony Ensues avclub.com It's like rain on your wedding day. It's a free ride when you've already paid. It's a strongly conservative news network blatantly copying the logo of video game in which the villain is a strongly conservative evil mastermind who wants to destroy the world. Read more on Digg.com → RAIN DANCE A boy somersaults into a water body as it rains in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. According to the weather office, the monsoon rains are expected to arrive at the national capital in a couple of days. Credit: AP Photo/Manish Swarup Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

You Won't See This Coming

Google Is About To Take Over Your Whole Life, And You Won't Even Notice, Belgium Hang On To Beat United States, You Won't See This Coming, And Neither Will This Alligator, Gentlemen For Rent, This Incredibly Charming Song Is Made Up Of 29 Flawless Celebrity Impressions, Is Your Governor A Climate Denier? The Daily Digg Wednesday, July 2, 2014 SECOND NATURE Google Is About To Take Over Your Whole Life, And You Won't Even Notice fastcodesign.com Google's new design ethos, living on and beyond every screen, could make the company an amorphous problem solver of unimaginable scale. IF ONLY TIM HOWARD'S SAVES WERE GOALS Belgium Hang On To Beat United States espnfc.us Belgium progressed to the World Cup quarterfinals after defeating United States 2-1 in extra time in Salvador. *CHOMP* You Won't See This Coming, And Neither Will This Alligator digg.com The Earth sure is a terrifying place. We're glad we don't live there. RENT-A-GENT Gentlemen For Rent newyorker.com Cities like New York have a way of coming up with solutions — skyscrapers, doormen, take-out coffee, laundry delivery, human rickshaws — to problems that they create themselves. In the late nineteen-thirties, as the city was gearing up to show off at the World's Fair, a problem that it hadn't solved was what to do about unaccompanied women — both those who lived and worked in the city and those who would be visiting to stroll through the "World of Tomorrow." DAAAAAAAAAAANNNGGGGGG This Incredibly Charming Song Is Made Up Of 29 Flawless Celebrity Impressions digg.com It's rare we can say that every single part of something is totally spot-on but Rob Cantor totally nails all of these. Even Billie Holiday. OPINONS ARE ALL OVER THE MAP Is Your Governor A Climate Denier? thinkprogress.org It's only really a question if your governor is a Republican. None of the country's Democratic governors have made public statements denying climate change. Read more on Digg.com → TIM HOWARD/EAGLE MAN 2016 U.S. and Belgium soccer fans cheer together before a World Cup round of 16 match between U.S. and Belgium in Salvador, Brazil, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Internet's Own Monster

Are The New Android Smartwatches Worth Wearing?, The Internet's Own Monster, Why You Shouldn't Stand Anywhere Near A Demolition Site, Ex-VP Sues Tinder Alleging Coworker Called Her A 'Whore' (And Worse), How America Got Hooked On Legal Meth, The Real Red Line In The Middle East The Daily Digg Tuesday, July 1, 2014 DON'T BE AN EARLY ADOPTER Are The New Android Smartwatches Worth Wearing? arstechnica.com The Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch aren't as essential as they want to be. THE STORY OF SLENDERMAN The Internet's Own Monster techcrunch.com Every generation creates its own monsters. Folk tales tell of witches and wyrms in the woods, my TV-infused generation feared Jaws in lakes and Bloody Mary in the mirror. This generation gets its monsters from the Internet. PRETTY GOOD REFLEXES ACTUALLY Why You Shouldn't Stand Anywhere Near A Demolition Site digg.com There's a reason demolition crews bar the public from being remotely close to demolition sites. This man in the Czech Republic narrowly escaping death by high velocity concrete is why. NO SWIPE LEFT OPTION ON THIS STORY, SORRY Ex-VP Sues Tinder Alleging Coworker Called Her A 'Whore' (And Worse) valleywag.gawker.com This is definitely worse than your worst Tinder horror story: Whitney Wolfe, Tinder's former VP of marketing is suing the hookup startup after what she describes as a spree of misogyny and sexual harassment at the hands of its CMO Justin Mateen. THE SPEED OF HYPOCRISY How America Got Hooked On Legal Meth motherboard.vice.com During the five years Heisenberg spent as a blue-meth cook, the nation experienced a nonfictional explosion in the manufacture and sale of sapphire pills and azure capsules containing amphetamine. FORGET THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS The Real Red Line In The Middle East foreignpolicy.com If ISIS attacks Jordan, neither the United States nor Israel will be able to stay out of the fray. Read more on Digg.com → IRRIGATION ART A Nepalese woman walks carrying paddy saplings before replanting them at a rice field in Chunnikhel, Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, June 30, 2014. The beginning of paddy cultivation in this Himalayan nation has been delayed this year due to the late arrival of the monsoon rains. Credit: AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014