Apple Just Ended The Era Of Paid Operating Systems

How Cheating Got Me A First-Class Flight To London, The Most And Least Lucrative College Majors, In 2 Graphs, Apple Just Ended The Era Of Paid Operating Systems, How Big Is A Colossal Squid Really?, Taxi Drivers See Some Crazy Sh*t The Daily Digg Wednesday, October 23, 2013 AND DUFFEL BAGS OF GOLD How Cheating Got Me A First-Class Flight To London psmag.com There are countless ways to game the airline miles system, but does that mean you should take advantage? ALWAYS GO INTO PETROLEUM The Most And Least Lucrative College Majors, In 2 Graphs npr.org Your college major has a bigger effect on your income than where you go to college. R.I.P. MICROSOFT Apple Just Ended The Era Of Paid Operating Systems wired.com The desktop operating system is dead as a major profit center, and Apple just delivered the obituary. AS USUAL, THE INTERNET EXAGGERATES How Big Is A Colossal Squid Really? deepseanews.com An image comparing the size of a colossal squid to that of a human recently made the rounds on social media. Only problem is that it's wrong, very wrong. GETTING CHOKED BY A SEATBELT Taxi Drivers See Some Crazy Sh*t vice.com We decided to meet with cab drivers to try and get their side of things and find out some of the crazy sh*t they've had to put up with over the years. They had a few horror stories to share. Read more on Digg.com → FALL IS THE BEST SEASON A man walks through fallen leaves in a foggy forest on the Feldberg mountain in the Taunus region, western Germany, on October 21, 2013. Credit: AFP PHOTO / DPA / ARNE DEDERT / GERMANY OUTARNE DEDERT/AFP/Getty Images Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The $4 Billion Dollar Plane

Should Severe Premenstrual Symptoms Be A Mental Disorder?, If Beer Ads Were Forced To Be Honest, The Inside Story Of The $4 Billion Gamble On The Super Quiet Jet, I Watched The Star Wars Movies For The First Time In 10 Years And Here's What I Learned, An Attack On A Cosplayer Sparks A Social Media Manhunt The Daily Digg Tuesday, October 22, 2013 SEEING RED Should Severe Premenstrual Symptoms Be A Mental Disorder? npr.org Psychiatrists have been slow to formally recognize PMDD as a disorder, but that's changed under the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-5, which lists PMDD as a distinct mental disorder. NOT REALLY TWINS If Beer Ads Were Forced To Be Honest videos.digg.com This is what beer ads would look like if they reflected reality. FLIGHT OF FANCY The Inside Story Of The $4 Billion Gamble On The Super Quiet Jet canadianbusiness.com Product launches are festive occasions, but it's rare to attend one so joyful that it moves the crowd to tears. BLOWS IT, YODA DOES I Watched The Star Wars Movies For The First Time In 10 Years And Here's What I Learned businessinsider.com Even though I grew up watching all the Star Wars movies every few months, I hadn't seen any of them since the last prequel came out in 2005... So starting last week, I watched all* of the movies again. Here's what I learned, having been away so long. FORGOT TO CLOAK An Attack On A Cosplayer Sparks A Social Media Manhunt dailydot.com An attack on a Predator street performer outside a shopping mall in Birmingham, U.K., went viral Monday after footage landed on YouTube. Read more on Digg.com → CAN ACTUALLY WALK ON THIS AIR A woman wearing a face mask walks in heavy smog in Haerbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on October 21, 2013. Credit: STR/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Did Someone Die In Your House?

The Site That Claims To Know If Someone Died In Your House, The Most Horrifying Parasites, The Ocean Is Broken, iPhone 5S Surprises, How North Korean Propaganda Artists Imagine Beijing The Daily Digg Monday, October 21, 2013 WHO YOU GONNA SEARCH? The Site That Claims To Know If Someone Died In Your House news.cnet.com DiedInHouse.com believes it might have the answer to that uncomfortable sense that there might be strange spirits in your house. YOU DON'T WANT THESE LIVING INSIDE YOU The Most Horrifying Parasites videos.digg.com These are some of the world's creepiest parasites. KILLING THE SEA The Ocean Is Broken theherald.com.au It was the silence that made this voyage different from all of those before it. A MORE THOUGHTFUL TAKE iPhone 5S Surprises mondaynote.com This year, Tim Cook introduced the riskiest hardware/software combination since the original iPhone. The iPhone 5S wants to be more than just "new and improved", it attempts to jump off the slope with its combination of two discontinuities: a 64-bit processor and a new 64-bit iOS. Will it work, or will it embarrass itself in a noisome backfire? IMAGINING THE UNKOWN How North Korean Propaganda Artists Imagine Beijing theatlantic.com Relying on rough sketches and pure imagination, the painters produced a fascinating depiction of the Chinese capital. Read more on Digg.com → OUCH Italtrans Racing rider Julian Simon of Spain flies through the air after colliding with NGM Mobile Racing rider Mattia Pasini of Italy during the Moto2 race at the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island on October 20, 2013. Credit: PAUL CROCK/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Sleeping Cleans Your Brain

This 300 Ft Wall In Bolivia Has Over 5,000 Dinosaur Footprints, A Day In The Life Of One Of NYC's Busiest Restaurants, We Go To Sleep To Clean Our Brains, Why Our Brains Love Curvy Architecture, Should We Be Allowed To Choose The Sexual Orientation Of Our Children? The Daily Digg Friday, October 18, 2013 THEY DID NOT TREAD LIGHTLY This 300 Ft Wall In Bolivia Has Over 5,000 Dinosaur Footprints twistedsifter.com At Cal Orko you will find 462 distinct dinosaur tracks from at least 8 different species, totaling an incredible 5,055 individual dinosaur footprints. So how did thousands of dinosaur footprints appear on a seemingly vertical rock face hundreds of feet high? TWO CHEFS JUST TO PEEL POTATOES A Day In The Life Of One Of NYC's Busiest Restaurants nytimes.com Balthazar may look like a rustic bistro, but behind the scenes, it's a highly efficient, well-oiled potato-chipping machine. GETTING OUR MINDS OUT OF THE GUTTER We Go To Sleep To Clean Our Brains theguardian.com Scientists claim to have a new explanation for why we sleep: in the hours spent slumbering, a rubbish disposal service swings into action that cleans up waste in the brain. WE LOVE THOSE CURVED LINES Why Our Brains Love Curvy Architecture fastcodesign.com People are far more likely to call a room beautiful when its design is round instead of linear. The reason may be hard-wired into the brain. HONING YOUR GAYDAR Should We Be Allowed To Choose The Sexual Orientation Of Our Children? psmag.com Imagine a prenatal test that, like the one for trisomy 21 (Down's syndrome), could show a predisposition to gayness. Read more on Digg.com → IN RIO, EVEN THE PROTESTS ARE PRETTY Aerial view of the "Teachers' day" protest in demand of better working conditions and against police violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Credit: VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

It's Over

The Shutdown Is Over, The Secret Language Of The Skies, And The Winner Is…, The Original iPhone Is Now A Collector's Item, The GOP's Alamo The Daily Digg Thursday, October 17, 2013 FOR NOW The Shutdown Is Over washingtonpost.com Sixteen days after a federal government shutdown began and one day before the United States would have exhausted its ability to borrow money, Congress approved a bill to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling until Feb. 7. ITAWT ITAWA PUDYE TTATT The Secret Language Of The Skies theatlantic.com The invisible, goofily-named markers that pilots use to plot their courses. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED And The Winner Is… abiglovestory.squarespace.com A month ago we teamed up with Squarespace to see who could build the best website from scratch. The response was overwhelming. But since every contest needs a winner, we chose the one that, frankly, we loved the most. Congrats to "A Big Love Story." HOPE YOU STILL HAVE YOURS IN A DRAWER The Original iPhone Is Now A Collector's Item tuaw.com When it comes to mobile gadgets, most tech junkies only care about the latest and greatest. If it's not cutting-edge, you might as well not bother, right? Well, not quite. HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE WINNERS The GOP's Alamo slate.com Republicans are wasting no time in rewriting the history of their own defeat. Read more on Digg.com → EVERYONE REMEMBERS THEIR FIRST FLOAT Newport News Shipbuilding floods Dry Dock 12 to float the first in class aircraft carrier, Pre-Commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78). Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Joshua J. Wahl Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Isaac Newton Just Got Cheated

Why Are Pot Smokers Skinny?, Light Can Break Newton's Third Law - By Cheating, Never Lose Your Keys Again, The Case For Deleting All Your Apps, The Dark History Of Polonium The Daily Digg Wednesday, October 16, 2013 THE MUNCHIES ILLUSION Why Are Pot Smokers Skinny? visual.ly New research suggests people who smoke marijuana are skinnier than those who abstain. LIGHT'S REALLY GOOD AT COVERING UP Light Can Break Newton's Third Law - By Cheating newscientist.com Isaac Newton just got cheated. Laser pulses have been made to accelerate themselves around loops of optical fibre, seeming to break the physicist's law that every action must have an equal and opposite reaction. The work exploits a trick with light that only makes it appear to have mass, so it is a bit of a cheat, but it may one day lead to faster electronics and more reliable communications. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Never Lose Your Keys Again grandst.com So you're late to work and you can't find your keys. Typical. Luckily, Grand St.'s got you covered with Hone, a bluetooth keychain that connects to your phone. Never look through those disgusting couch cushions again. APPS ARE LIKE DEAD CATS The Case For Deleting All Your Apps buzzfeed.com I beg you. It will change your life. 'THE ANGEL OF DEATH' The Dark History Of Polonium livescience.com Little did scientists Marie and Pierre Curie suspect, when they discovered polonium in 1898, that the radioactive element would go on to have one of the darkest and most intriguing histories of any known substance. Read more on Digg.com → PUTS AMTRAK ON THANKSGIVING INTO PERSPECTIVE Bangladeshi commuters ride on a train as they rush home to be with their families in remote villages, ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, in Dhaka on October 15, 2013. Credit: AFP PHOTO/ Munir uz ZAMANMUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014