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Why One School District Killed Its Student Laptop Program, How Sitcoms Depict American Cities, Stop Eating Crap And Start Cooking, The Man Who Haunts Israel, Irony, Illustrated, Dissecting The Peerless Editing Of Satoshi Kon The Daily Digg Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ANYONE NEED A BUNCH OF RUINED LAPTOPS? Why One School District Killed Its Student Laptop Program arstechnica.com "There is no more determined hacker… than a 12-year-old who has a computer." URBAN LEGENDS How Sitcoms Depict American Cities theguardian.com From the suspiciously affordable West Village in "Friends" to the cosmopolitan Huxtable house in "The Cosby Show," sitcoms have shaped our most elemental images of urban America. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Stop Eating Crap And Start Cooking blueapron.com Forget wasting time at the grocery story. With Blue Apron you get the perfect amount of the best ingredients delivered right to your door. Easy shopping, easy recipes, and easy cooking — it really doesn't get much better than this. Oh and now get the first 2 meals free! SECOND LIFE The Man Who Haunts Israel time.com Khaled Mashaal was nearly assassinated by Benjamin Netanyahu. Then Israel's Prime Minister was forced to bring the Hamas leader back to life. Now their deadly history hangs over the conflict that roils the Middle East. ISN'T IT IRONIC? NO, IT'S COINCIDENCE Irony, Illustrated digg.com Irony. The term people love to use... incorrectly. On TV, in literature, between friends — people misapply and misuse the word a million times a day. But now finally there's an illustrated guide explaining the difference between irony and mere coincidence. LOST ART Dissecting The Peerless Editing Of Satoshi Kon digg.com Four years after his passing, we still haven't quite caught up to Satoshi Kon, one of the great visionaries of modern film. In just four features and one TV series, he developed a unique style of editing that distorted and warped space and time. Read more on Digg.com → LIKE THE OLYMPICS, BUT HALF THE WORLD DOESN'T CARE Canada's Pierre-Luc Theriault prepares to play a return to Uganda's Gilton Chelibe Charlotte in the Men's Table Tennis singles at the Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014, Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Peter Morrison Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014