Inside The Pleasure Machine

What You Missed This Weekend, This Chart Tells You If You're Underpaid, It's Summer, Who's Got Time To Stay Inside And Clean?, Even Though 'GOT' Is Over, At Least You Have This Guy's Excellent Impressions, The Military Now Has X-Ray Guns, How Amusement Parks Hijack Your Brain The Daily Digg Monday, June 23, 2014 DIGG PICKS What You Missed This Weekend digg.com This weekend we learned that the pope made a lot of dangerous enemies, the Polish Foreign Minister thinks the U.S. is a selfish lover, and whiskey's about to get a lot more expensive. HR'S GOING TO HEAR ABOUT THIS This Chart Tells You If You're Underpaid vox.com Reddit user Dan Lin has created one (very long) chart that shows 820 U.S. occupations and how much they pay. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED It's Summer, Who's Got Time To Stay Inside And Clean? homejoy.com Let's face it, you've got better things to do. Let Homejoy put in the elbow grease for you. And to sweeten the deal, Homejoy is giving you 67% off of your first booking — so you get a clean house without getting cleaned out. FROM GRAY WORM TO KARL TANNER Even Though 'GOT' Is Over, At Least You Have This Guy's Excellent Impressions digg.com Anyone can do a convincing Hodor. What's really impressive is Steve Love's spot-on take on all your favorite "Game of Thrones" characters (and some of the ones you forgot existed). GOOD FOR CAVITY SEARCHES The Military Now Has X-Ray Guns defenseone.com Superman had X-ray vision. Now, so does the United States military, in the form of an X-ray gun that can see through fabric, rubber and aluminum to find drugs, money, explosive liquids and even people. THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE How Amusement Parks Hijack Your Brain bostonglobe.com They're perfectly engineered to push psychological buttons you didn't even know you had. Here's how. Read more on Digg.com → ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT Competitors race during the Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia. According to organizers 180 teams were set to compete with more than 100,000 people expected to attend the 26th annual festival. Credit: AP: The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014