Submitted by CosmicDebris 5/29/2008
- Editor’s Note: This one did hit the front page after being posted on popFAIL.
Since there is no way to collect “physical evidence” for this one, the story details using Crime Scene Investigation style methods to solve a cosmic mystery.
From the story: “The universe is a big place, and weird things can happen,” said Stephanie Wachter of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology.
“I was flipping through archived Spitzer data of the object, and that’s when I noticed it was surrounded by a ring we’d never seen before.”
Original Description:
Piecing together how a mysterious infrared ring got left around a dead star that displays a magnetic field trillions of times more intense than Earth’s.
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Submitted by Zaibatsu 5/28/2008
This is one that I submitted that should have hit. With 84% of Digg users as men, we could all use some advice about the best things to put or not put into our wardrobe. With 184 Diggs, it should have flipped.
Sometimes even the ones that should have don’t.
Original Description:
Every man should have these men’s wardrobe basics as the cornerstones of their wardrobe. Chances are you already have most if not all these wardrobe basics, but regardless of your age group or profession, your closet should always have these garments hanging around.
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Submitted by mklopez 5/28/2008
Dumblittleman normally puts out great content. Digg, for whatever reason, doesn’t always agree. Looking at some of the things that make the front page and comparing it to some of the content on this site — it’s clear that most would agree DLM has better, more front page worthy content.
mklopez is a great submitter, one of the top in the world. This is one that had a practical reasoning behind it, a great title, and just never made it to the upcoming list.
Original Description:
Sure positivity could reduce some stress for the person exhibiting it, but let’s take a closer look at the overall cons of obsessive optimism
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Submitted by cpomme 5/27/2008
- Editor’s Note: This one did hit the front page after being posted on popFAIL.
Here’s one that blows our mind. Normally, when a submitter who averages 4 Diggs per submission breaks 50 diggs, it’ll hit. This one is at 90 and it looks like it isn’t going to hit.
NY Times - a source that hits the front page regularly - isn’t the issue. The quality of the story isn’t the issue. The title is clever and seems front page worthy - not the issue. What is the issue?
Only Digg knows.
Original Description:
A small red berry called miracle fruit temporarily rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors, rendering lemons as sweet as candy.
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Submitted by MSaleem 5/27/2008
Such useful advice. A variation on a theme that is covered often, but not nearly this well. The problem with this story was that the source was untested. It’s hard to get on the front page for the first time, regardless of how deserving a story might be.
With 164 Diggs, it almost got there. Almost. Instead, it rests on the pages of popFail.
Original Description:
“All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.”
~Baltasar Gracian
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