Battle Over Bigfoot

The Hunter, The Hoaxer, And The Battle Over Bigfoot, What We Learned This Week, Do You Want To Read More?, An Hour And A Half Of MLB Ejections, Thanks To This Guy, Reader's Digest Will Now Pay You For Your Tweets, Not All Nerds The Daily Digg Friday, November 7, 2014 MESSIN' WITH SASQUATCH The Hunter, The Hoaxer, And The Battle Over Bigfoot buzzfeed.com Jeffrey Meldrum is a respected anthropologist risking his reputation to prove Sasquatch is real; Rick Dyer is an unapologetic con artist capitalizing off that curiosity. Their rivalry represents two sides of the fractious but booming Bigfoot subculture. DIGG PICKS What We Learned This Week digg.com This week we learned that our weirdest sexual fantasies aren't all that weird, the best way to board an airplane and why starting that alpaca farm was a truly terrible idea. APPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Do You Want To Read More? longform.org Of course you do, you're not an idiot. Well thanks to Longform's great new app, you can now read all of the day's best articles, plus follow writers and get recommendations from your friends. Don't blame us if you go blind from reading so much on a tiny screen. THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT! An Hour And A Half Of MLB Ejections digg.com Now that the baseball season is over, things are getting pretty boring on that front. Nothing like shouting matches to get the ol' American blood boiling again. WELL, MAYBE NOT YOU, BUT FUNNY PEOPLE Thanks To This Guy, Reader's Digest Will Now Pay You For Your Tweets facebook.com A few months ago, a friend told me he'd been reading the September issue of Reader's Digest and loved my joke. I was baffled, mostly because I can't imagine a 20-something having a subscription to Reader's Digest. Also, this was the first I'd heard about my joke being printed in the magazine. Here's the email I sent them in response, and here's what they wrote back. THE UNHEARD NERDS Not All Nerds thenewinquiry.com By imagining nerds as a race of their own, Silicon Valley tries to disguise its white supremacy. Read more on Digg.com → SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN The sun sets beyond the shell of a building under construction Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014, in Olathe, Kan. Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014