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HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

This Happy Backpack Corgi Might Be The Next Great Soccer Star

1 digg digg.com Dogs Animals Cute Sports Video

Reasons why this corgi is a better soccer player than Lionel Messi: 1) portable 2) much fluffier (important!) 3) no salary 4) look at it.

WARPED REALITY

How The 'Star Trek' Punch Became The Worst Fight Move On TV

1 digg motherboard.vice.com TV

And yet, it's totally iconic.

WITH PICOBREW ǀ SPONSORED

The Ultimate Oktoberfest Giveaway

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Just in time for Oktoberfest, PicoBrew is giving away their hi-tech, stainless steel homebrewing machine, plus 5 award-winning DIY brew packs, to two lucky Digg readers. It’s like winning a personal brewery that fits on your kitchen countertop.

OUCH

Don't Try To Catch A Drone With Your Bare Hands

0 diggs digg.com Drones Funny Video

Just let the operator hover it down gently or else you're in for a world of hurt.

YELLOW AND BLUE SOCK PUPPET

Does Kevin Durant Have A Fake Twitter Account?

0 diggs theringer.com Sports Internet Culture

Who is Kevin Durant, really? How deep does this go?

'I WILL ALWAYS PUT AMERICA FIRST'

Here Are The Highlights From Trump's First United Nations Address

7 diggs digg.com Donald Trump Politics News World Digg Explainer

He called Kim Jong Un "rocket man," threatened to "totally destroy North Korea" and called the Iran nuclear deal "an embarrassment."

NOT PLAYING AROUND

Toys 'R' Us Files For Bankruptcy

2 diggs nbcnews.com Business

Toys R Us, the New Jersey-based toy retailer, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while keeping open its stores.

IT'S LIKE RIDING A BIKE

A Pedal-Powered Karaoke Machine From 1925

1 digg youtube.com Craft Technology Music Histories Video World

Learning to play piano well can take many, many years of practice. But learning to pedal an old school player piano? That only takes a few minutes.

YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND, BABY

Welcome To The World's First Rotating Jail, Which Had An Unfortunate Tendency To Cut Inmates' Limbs Off

13 diggs youtube.com Criminal Justice Histories Video

This excessively complicated, totally unnecessary 1881 invention really must be seen to be believed.

FAMILY FLAIR

Why Ric Flair's Greatest Legacy Is His Daughter

8 diggs bleacherreport.com Entertainment Sports Long Reads

After a near-death experience, the pro wrestling icon and his newfound successor, Charlotte Flair, look forward to a legend in the making. Woo!

NICKEL AND DIME FORMATION

The NFL Is Being Devoured By Its Own Economic Model

5 diggs sbnation.com Sports Culture Business Economics Long Reads

This is a very boring, simple explanation as to why the NFL's ratings are declining.

WITH PICOBREW ǀ SPONSORED

The Oktoberfest Craft Beer Giveaway

5 diggs digg.com Sponsored

Just in time for Oktoberfest, PicoBrew is giving away their hi-tech, stainless steel homebrewing machine, plus 5 award-winning DIY brew packs, to two lucky Digg readers. It’s like winning a personal brewery that fits on your kitchen countertop.

UPDATING THROUGHOUT THE DAY

Trump Rejects Study It Commissioned After It Finds Positive Economic Impact Of Refugees, And Other Trump News From Today

2 diggs digg.com Today In Trump Donald Trump Politics News Digg Roundup Digg Original

All the Trump news you need to read today.

SIZING IT UP

What If Clothes Were Made To Fit Bodies?

8 diggs racked.com Style Design Business Culture

How limited sizing reinforces the myth of the perfect body.

'LOVE @ FIRST SWIPE'

A Super Slick Animated Short About A Very Modern Romance

5 diggs youtube.com Relationships Animation Video

Fraser Davidson loves his wife Vicky. He's also very, very good at animation.

DON'T MAKE AI THE NEW PHRENOLOGY

AI Research Is In Desperate Need Of An Ethical Watchdog

7 diggs wired.com Artificial Intelligence Technology Human Nature

More social scientists are using AI intending to solve society's ills, but they don’t have clear ethical guidelines to prevent them from accidentally harming people.

ANI-MAYHEM

We're Not Sure What's Happening In This 'Dragon Ball FighterZ' Clip, But Fans Are Going To Love It

10 diggs digg.com Anime Gaming Video video-in-canvas

Have you ever played "Street Fighter" or "Mortal Kombat" and thought "you know, this action is too easy to follow?" Well, there's a new video game that'll be right up your alley.

MAKING IT HARDER FOR REAL CLAIMANTS

Security Cam Footage Reveals Man Actively Trying To Get Injured To Collect Workers Comp

27 diggs digg.com Curious Video

"We were moving and decided to get a couple of guys from Home Depot to help us. One of the guys intentionally tried multiple times to jump in front of the kids playing to act as if he got hurt. He finally succeeded the third time, but did not know he was on camera."

THEY'RE PLUGGED IN

Best Buy's Secrets For Thriving In The Amazon Age

5 diggs nytimes.com Business Technology Culture

Hubert Joly, Best Buy's chief executive, has reshaped nearly every aspect of the business. He explains the playbook behind the company’s success.

HE *IS* THE FATHER OF TRASH REALITY TV

A Very Good Q&A; With Maury Povich

3 diggs vice.com Fame TV Profiles Entertainment

On the phone from New York, Povich is funny and self-deprecating, aware of his reputation but firmly in the give-no-fucks phase of a very zero-fucks-given career.

FROM THE DIGG STORE

Pay Once For A Lifetime Of High-Speed, High-Security Website Hosting

3 diggs store.digg.com Digg Store

No more month-to-month payments and rising hosting fees. With this deal you pay once, and you're set for good.

KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN

Cher Is Still Changing The Conversation In 2017

4 diggs buzzfeed.com Fame

Cher is still making headlines, after more than five decades in the spotlight, because she’s never stopped finding and mastering new outlets for her creative expression.

UNTHINKABLE

Hurricane Maria Does 'Mind Boggling' Damage To Dominica, Leader Says

7 diggs nytimes.com News World Climate Change

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said the Caribbean island nation had sustained "widespread devastation" from the storm, which is now at Category 5 strength.

SQUELCHING NOISES

A Mayonnaise Belly Flopping Competition Is As Gross And Ungodly As It Sounds

3 diggs digg.com Gross Video

Jaguars fans decided to start a mayo belly flop contest, after starting the rumor that all Titans fans smell like mayo. No, we don't understand the logic there, either.

THE PLA-HEAR-BO EFFECT

What A Doctor Calls A Condition Can Affect How We Decide To Treat It

8 diggs fivethirtyeight.com Health Science Studies Human Nature

A study examining how parents react to a diagnosis of "pink eye" versus "eye infection"

'THIS IS NOT OK'

Violence Flares After Quiet Vigil For Georgia Tech Student Shot By Police

5 diggs cnn.com LGBT Criminal Justice News

Violence erupted late Monday on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta after a vigil for a student shot and killed by police.

JUST DESERTS

Just An Hour Of Calming Desertscape From The Window Of A Moving Train

8 diggs youtube.com Satisfying Video Nature Curious Travel

Not quite ready for your workday to start? Hit the full screen button and climb aboard.

INSIDE THE 'BOJACK HORSEMAN' MACHINE

How Season Four Of 'BoJack Horseman' Pushed The Envelope Of Animation Experimentation

9 diggs dotandline.net Animation TV Entertainment

The Dot and Line goes behind the scenes of the Netflix cartoon's best episodes with assistant director James Bowman.

ALL BOUND UP

When Every Bra Size Is Wrong

9 diggs shondaland.com Personal Essay Style

What I'm about to recommend to you isn’t in any way a solution.

MARBURY V. MADISON

Understanding The Most Important Case In Supreme Court History

6 diggs history.com Histories Law Politics Video

The 1803 United States court case between William Marbury and James Madison helped establish the judiciary as a formal branch of the federal government.

FROM WEE LAD TO WITTLE MAN

For Centuries, People Celebrated A Little Boy's First Pair Of Trousers

4 diggs atlasobscura.com Histories Curious Style

Literally a party in your pants.

THE CHILDREN OF HATEFUL MEN

How South Korea's Angry Young Men Formed A Powerful New Alt-Right Movement

9 diggs mic.com Internet Politics Culture Long Reads World

Welcome to the site Ilbe Storehouse, better known as just Ilbe, the hub for South Korea's new far-right movement.

AN UNEVEN PLAYING FIELD

Man Trains His Dog To Fetch Hockey Pucks So He Can Practice His Shot Off The Rink

2 diggs youtube.com Dogs Animals Sports Video

It seems a little unfair that the dog doesn't get to wear skates while playing this game.

*GESTICULATES INCOMPREHENSIBLY*

Sign Language Interpreter Warned Of 'Pizza' And 'Bear Monster' At Hurricane Irma Briefing

5 diggs nytimes.com Language Climate Change News

Officials in Manatee County, Fla., drew criticism for asking a local lifeguard unskilled at sign language to interpret crucial evacuation orders.

WE SHOULD ALL JUST LOG OFF

Security Software's Sketchy Supply Chain Snag

19 diggs wired.com Security Crime Technology Business

Three times in the last three months, hackers have exploited the digital supply chain to plant tainted code that hides in software companies' own systems of installation and updates, hijacking those trusted channels to stealthily spread their malicious code.

THIS MIGHT AS WELL BE REAL

The Startup That's Here To Disrupt Bowls

13 diggs youtube.com Funny Technology Video

Bobby Moynihan and CollegeHumor teamed up to deliver this killer parody of every tech startup to come out in the last 10 years, and it's a little too close to reality for comfort.

CRYTYPING TRUE LIES

The Paranoid Girls Of Tumblr

8 diggs thehairpin.com Internet Culture Human Nature

One of the internet's most notorious recent conspiracy theories isn’t so interesting in what it posits — that former One Direction members Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles are in love — but only in what its believers have done to protect it.

ANOTHER COMPLAINT AGAINST FOX NEWS

Commentator Says She Was 'Raped' By Fox News Host

11 diggs thecut.com News Media Crime Criminal Justice Law Sexual Assault

On Monday, conservative commentator Scottie Nell Hughes filed a lawsuit against Fox News, claiming the company retaliated against her after she reported that she had been raped by the longtime anchor Charles Payne.

VLADE'S STILL GOT IT

Sacramento Kings' General Manager Casually Drains A Behind-The-Head Half-Court Shot

9 diggs digg.com Sports Curious Fame Video video-in-canvas

Not only is Vlade Divac the general manager of the Sacramento Kings, he's also a 7'1" former NBA star. And he can still hit a circus-style trick shot or two.

FROM DUNDER MIFFLIN TO STERLING COOPER

Tour The Floor Plans Of All Your Favorite TV Offices

15 diggs digg.com Design TV photo-blog-canvas Entertainment Movies Art

You spend all day with your coworkers. So what could possibly drive you to go home and spend your free time with a fictional work family on TV? Relatable characters and great writing might do it, but a fantastically designed set always helps too.

STEPPING TO A GOOSESTEPPER

Seattle Nazi Knocked Out In Video After Twitter Tracks Him

17 diggs nymag.com Race News Internet

"Am I worried that fascists will use our tactics? Yes. Is that a good point? No. Tactics can be used by anyone."

FIELD OF PLAY

Extremely Good Dog Interrupts Soccer Match

11 diggs digg.com Sports Video Animals video-in-canvas

Soccer is often referred to as the beautiful game, but what's truly beautiful about it is how regularly animals invade the pitch and the players and stadium staff are almost always good sports about it.

YOUR LIFE, FULLY PREPARED

The Life Blue Apron Wants You To Believe You're Living

13 diggs reallifemag.com Food Culture Human Nature Technology Long Reads

The meal-kit delivery is a TV dinner deconstructed. Where frozen dinners erase the labor of cooking, meal kits endow this labor with value while erasing the work of planning and shopping.

$700 BILLION IN DEFENSE SPENDING

US Senate Backs Massive Increase In Military Spending

5 diggs reuters.com News Politics Policy Warfare

The US Senate is backing President Donald Trump’s call for a bigger, stronger military but setting the stage for a battle over government spending levels later this year.