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The Islamic State Is Failing At Being A State, Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader With Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Online Courses And More, Filthy Idioms In Other Languages, Percolator Sounds Like Women's Tennis, Florence Preps 'David' For The Big One, The Neuroscience Of Nostalgia The Daily Digg Friday, December 26, 2014 GOVERNING IS HARD The Islamic State Is Failing At Being A State washingtonpost.com The Islamic State's vaunted exercise in state-building appears to be crumbling as living conditions deteriorate across the territories under its control, exposing the shortcomings of a group that devotes most of its energies to fighting battles and enforcing strict rules. STUFF YOUR STUFF WITH FREE STUFF Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader With Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Online Courses And More openculture.com Santa left a new Kindle, iPad, Kindle Fire or other media player under your tree. He did his job. Now we'll do ours. We'll tell you how to fill those devices with free intelligent media — great books, movies, courses, and all of the rest. And if you didn't get a new gadget, fear not. You can access all of these materials on the good old fashioned computer. NSFW (SERIOUSLY, THESE ARE REALLY DIRTY) Filthy Idioms In Other Languages digg.com English is often thought of as a confusing hodgepodge of a language, and for non-English speakers idioms like "to get one's got" or "crazy like a fox" can be difficult to understand. But when idioms from other languages are translated literally, the results are often just as weird and lot more... colorful. ALSO MAYBE SOUNDS LIKE OTHER STUFF Percolator Sounds Like Women's Tennis digg.com Yes, yes it does. KEEPING ALL THE BITS IN PLACE Florence Preps 'David' For The Big One thedailybeast.com The masterpiece is huge, but structurally flawed and terribly vulnerable to seismic activity. WE JUST REALLY MISS YOU GUYS The Neuroscience Of Nostalgia america.aljazeera.com How the brain stores sad, glad and bittersweet recollections. Read more on Digg.com → WALL OF WATER A man is silhouetted against a backdrop of an illustration of a tsunami as he prepares the stage for a memorial to mark the 10th anniversary of the Asian tsunami Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014 in Ban Nam Khem, Thailand. Dec. 26 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, that left more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and caused about $10 billion in damage. Credit: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014