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Digg - What the Internet is talking about right nowhttp://digg.com/rss/topstories.xml Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:01:02 +0000Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:01:02 +000015Google plans to release its much-awaited iOS Maps app tonight, according to sources familiar with the matter.http://allthingsd.com/20121212/google-set-to-release-ios-maps-app-tonight/?mod=atdtweet 50c92e95929a1e11e485d67f61Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:25:41 +0000The United Nations has just voted in favor of a draft resolution supporting universal health coverage. So what countries already have some form of universal coverage in place?http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/12/united-nations-universal-healthcare/ 50c8e7c1929a1e11e485d5cf0Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:23:29 +0000Brett Doar was part of the team that made the OK Go Rube Goldberg machine, made one for the Colbert Report, and now helped make the colossal Athlete Machine for Red Bull.http://jalopnik.com/5967389/the-man-behind-the-worlds-biggest-rube-goldberg-machines-explains-how-you-control-chaos 50c93ec0929a1e11e485d69c3Thu, 13 Dec 2012 02:34:40 +0000So Facebook announced Wednesday that it's updating its privacy settings for what seems like the thousandth time. Now generally when the social network does this sort of thing, a lot of confusion and anger ensues. Here's a simple guide to the latest round of changes.http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/12/facebook-new-privacy-settings-explained/59906/ 50c8d0c6929a1e11e485d5a08Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:45:26 +0000U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez employed as an unpaid intern in his Senate office an illegal immigrant who was a registered sex offender, now under arrest by immigration authorities, The Associated Press has learned.http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ap-exclusive-govt-arrests-illegal-immigrant-registered-sex-offender-working-for-us-senator/2012/12/12/ea7b1fbe-448e-11e2-8c8f-fbebf7ccab4e_story.html 50c8dd83929a1e11e485d5c73Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:39:47 +0000Few among us can gaze up at a steel city scaffold and say with utter confidence, "I can climb that." Fewer still can vault from bar to bar, or leap out over open air to land on a wooden railing the width of a strip of duct tape. For parkour athletes, however, this is child's play.http://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/exercise/the-spiderman-sport-20121212 50c9274a929a1e11e485d67810Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:54:34 +0000It's nearly January, the time of every year when Wall Street banks pay their employees and executives their annual year-end bonuses and the rest of America freaks out about how outrageously big they are.http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/12/defense-of-the-wall-street-bonus.html 50c93055929a1e11e485d68e5Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:33:09 +0000Bizarre weather is not restricted to Earth. Hurricane Sandy was a speck of dust compared to some of the cataclysms currently taking place around the solar system.http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/12/space_weather_tornadoes_dust_storms_hurricanes_acid_rain_on_other_planets.html 50c92c22929a1e11e485d67e12Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:15:14 +0000Millions of people around the world come home to four legs and a wagging tail, and many spend some of their time together playing. While dog-dog play has been studied extensively, dog-person play, which takes on a different form and appears to have different rules, has not attracted nearly as much scholarly attention.http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/12/12/how-do-you-play-with-your-dog/ 50c8f9ab929a1e11e485d60f11Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:39:55 +0000Could you paint a replica of the Mona Lisa using only 50 semi transparent polygons? That is the challenge one man decided to set for himself.http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/?hn 50c92ade929a1e11e485d67c8Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:09:50 +0000How well have you been keeping track of all the year's facial hair? Can you tell a TV star's luscious face locks from those of a movie's supporting character? Or do you just assume everyone is Mandy Patinkin? Hir-suit up for our quiz and see if you can face (-shul hair) the music.http://www.vulture.com/2012/12/vultures-official-year-in-facial-hair-quiz.html?mid=twitter_nymag 50c9022a929a1e11e485d6354Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:16:10 +0000The Washington Post sorted through an entire year's worth of editorial cartoons so you didn't have to. You're welcome.http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-year-in-cartoons/2012/12/12/43ebf12c-43cc-11e2-9648-a2c323a991d6_gallery.html 50c8ff3e929a1e11e485d6339Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:03:42 +0000South Carolina is just crazy enough to consider appointing the on-air comic to replace Jim DeMint. Here's why they should actually go through with it.http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/12/why-stephen-colbert-deserves-south-carolina-s-senate-seat.html?source=socialflow&account=thedailybeast&medium=twitter 50c8e92b929a1e11e485d5d211Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:29:31 +0000From cocaine breast implants to an ecstasy-stuffed Mr. Potato Head, here are some of the best smuggling attempts that didn't succeed.http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTXWS9A#a=1 50c8cbf2929a1e3d8567c87e6Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:24:50 +0000Oregon police have identified the shooter in Tuesday night's shooting at a shopping mall shooting outside Portland. Authorities are saying they don't have a motive for the shootings just yet â€" that it was a random act of violence â€" but we stumbled across what appears to be his Facebook page and discovered, well, a lot of violent signs.http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/12/jacob-tyler-roberts-facebook/59913/ 50c907b1929a1e11e485d6371Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:39:45 +0000"It's like watching Manhattan breaking apart in front of your eyes."http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2012/dec/12/chasing-ice-iceberg-greenland-video 50c8f145929a1e11e485d5f147Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:04:05 +0000Investigators say two would-be hit men from Albuquerque may have had their sights set on the teen mega star; Justin Bieber.http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/cops-nm-men-plotted-to-kill-bieber 50c8f9ef929a1e11e485d61025Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:41:03 +0000The David Petraeus scandal has shined a light on the luxurious, subsidized lifestyle of the U.S. military’s top generals. But so far, what the media has uncovered only scratches the surface of the abuses. Here are seven absurd ways the military wastes our moneyâ€"and none of them have anything to do with national defense.http://www.salon.com/2012/12/12/7_absurd_ways_the_military_wastes_taxpayer_dollars/ 50c8f320929a1e11e485d60320Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:12:00 +0000If you're looking for some good news out of this North Korean rocket launch â€" aside from the new details that it might not have been totally successful â€" may we introduce you to the over-enthusiastic North Korean newswoman who first announced it?http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/12/north-korean-news-anchor-unveiled-rocket-launch-amazing/59901/ 50c8efaa929a1e11e485d5ed14Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:57:14 +0000Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered seven primitive galaxies from a distant population that formed more than 13 billion years ago. In the process, their observations have put forward a candidate for the record for the most distant galaxy found to date.http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1219/ 50c8f193929a1e11e485d5f315Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:05:23 +0000Experts say the same technology it takes to put a 100kg satellite into orbit could be the first step towards firing an intercontinental ballistic missile with an equivalent payload at America, provided that North Korea could also master re-entry and accuracy.http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/12/daily-chart-7?fsrc=scn/tw/te/dc/missilediplomacy 50c8e891929a1e11e485d5d014Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:26:57 +0000