We Come From The Year 2049

They've come from the future for two reasons: 1) To save us from ourselves; and 2) to make YouTube confessionals.

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SECOND LIFE WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE, APPARENTLY The Rise In Self-Proclaimed Time Travelers melmagazine.com They've come from the future for two reasons: 1) To save us from ourselves; and 2) to make YouTube confessionals. VESPENE GAS IN THE TANK The Staying Power Of 'StarCraft' theringer.com Twenty years after Blizzard's baby redefined a genre and spawned the esports movement, it remains a timeless proof of concept for what online competition can be. PLAY IT AGAIN, FUNCO The Company Behind Used Video Games tedium.co The story of FuncoLand, the retailer that made the used video game market a thing — and how GameStop, which bought Funco, sort of bastardized that mission. MORTGAGES WE DIGG ǀ SPONSORED Here's The Real Way To Calculate How Much House You Can Afford better.com Better Mortgage Corporation has the only end to end mortgage application to closing process that is 100% online. That means you can get pre-approved in less than three minutes and see a real estimate of how much house you can afford. If only getting on 'House Hunters' was this easy. THE WEEK IN PICTURES FALLING FROM ORBIT The Week's Coolest Space Images digg.com Every day satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from this week. PICTURE THIS The Best Photography Of The Week digg.com The strange beauty of sandstorms, Ireland's disappearing storefronts, and a village where only women and children live in. KNOCK IT OFF KENTUCKY LIED CHICKEN How Bootleg Fast Food Conquered Iran atlasobscura.com If there was one thing the government couldn't suppress, it was taste. That's why Iran is now home to dozens of knockoff franchises, from Mash Donald's to Sheak Shack, that have taken advantage of hostility toward American fast food to serve dangerously delicious burgers, fries, and burritos. IF ONLY EVERY LUNCH THIEF GOT CAUGHT The Office Lunch Theft Tweet Thread That The Internet Can't Look Away From digg.com We talked to Zak Toscani, the man behind the perfect Friday mystery, and got the HR email. 'THE BITCOIN TOOK THE LONGEST' Rise Of The DIY Death Machines motherboard.vice.com In 1996, Philip Nitschke used a computer to facilitate the first legal euthanasia in history. Today, he is teaching elderly people how to buy Bitcoin, use encrypted messaging, and navigate the dark web to end their lives on their own terms. SWEET AND SOUR Trouble In Candy Land washingtonpost.com How Peeps, pensions and a lawsuit threaten to upend the American retirement system. VIDEO OF THE DAY HOLY HELL A Montage Of The Most Gnarly, Hair-Raising Content On YouTube digg.com And you can watch this one worry-free because "absolutely no one was killed in any of these clips." FROM THE DIGG STORE These Are The First THX® Certified Headphones store.digg.com These elite headphones have been expertly tuned by Grammy-winning sound engineer Luca Bignardi for a fully balanced and ultra-realistic soundstage. No need to time travel right now: It's Saturday morning. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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