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How Cubicles Came To Be, The Volcano That Rewrote History, Your First Time Should Be Special, John Oliver Dismantles The Death Penalty, The Complete History Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Daily Digg Tuesday, May 6, 2014 DESK JOBS How Cubicles Came To Be newyorker.com The arrangement that began in the nineteenth-century factory and lived on through the twentieth-century office may end soon. BLOWING TAMBORA The Volcano That Rewrote History thedailybeast.com If you think this winter was unseasonably long and cold, you're playing history's tiniest violin. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Your First Time Should Be Special squarespace.com Never built a website before? Built so many you forgot the names of half of them? Well no matter your experience level, Squarespace can help you do it better, faster. Or slower, if that's how you like it. THE DEATH PENALTY IS LIKE THE McRIB John Oliver Dismantles The Death Penalty digg.com Can the death penalty be executed humanely? Should we even be implementing it at all? Why are we talking about this on a comedy show? THE FULL SHELL The Complete History Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mentalfloss.com To make sure I got the scoop on everyone's favorite heroes in a half-shell, I went straight to the source — co-creator Peter Laird — who was kind enough to answer our burning questions about the franchise. Read more on Digg.com → THAT USED TO BE A VILLAGE An aerial view shows the site of Friday's landslide that buried Abi Barik village in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan, Monday, May 5, 2014. Hundreds of people were killed in a horrific landslide and authorities are trying to help the 700 families displaced by the torrent of mud that swept through their village. The families left their homes due to the threat of more landslides, Minister for Rural Rehabilitation Wais Ahmad Barmak said. Credit: AP Photo/Rahmat Gul Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014