Submitted by SirPopper on 11/04/2008
I laughed hard when I read the title, because I had a good idea what was coming. I can’t believe this didn’t front page, especially seeing the amount of commentary on the post.
Sure, there were a lot of submissions announcing Obama as the 44th president of the United States, but the Onion did it best - hands down.
Original Description:
African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure,..
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Submitted to Digg by MrBabyMan 11/2/2008
It isn’t often that a story by MrBabyMan makes it to popfail simply because he already makes it to the front page of Digg very often. This story, however, was exceptional and deserves to be highlighted, but at 58 Diggs in 23 hours, it probably won’t hit.
Thus, I’ll post it here.
The real problem isn’t with the article. It goes in depth into the different styles that each of the Presidential candidates brings to the table. It discusses their past and more importantly their future. An excellent read from a great source - but it’s 3 pages long. Probably too much to digest for the front page of Digg.
Original Description:
The extraordinary powers of the presidency await either Barack Obama or John McCain. So do a grim national mood and a challenging global order. A look at how each man would face an epic challenge
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Submitted by shellygrrl on 11/01/2008
Sure as hell can’t be the title - as in why didn’t this post make it to the front page.
No, the user account has very little activity associated with it.
The post is to a long “poster” of the 2008 election. I think just about every controversy and ridiculous aspect of the 2008 campaigns have been included.
Original Description:
The 2008 election summed up as if one long poster.
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Submitted by anderzole on 10/26/08
Sorta like the recent article I posted on Iceland’s citizens going back to fishing… only different. Instead of acquiring jobs that actually produce something physical (or even to another industry altogether), they’re relocating to other areas of the country and sticking with the financial industry. So, basically the rats are abandoning ship and Wall Street is experiencing population decline.
Interesting article, but left me slightly disturbed when the author referred to the talents of bankers and brokers as “rarified.”
… in what world?
awwww… look at the sad little banker…
Original Description:
Bankers and brokers looking to escape the financial meltdown are scrambling to relocate their families, possessions and rarified talent far from Wall Street to places such as Florida, Chicago, Milwaukee, Virginia and Asia.
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Submitted by badwithcomputer on 10/27/08
Um… not the best way to get out of marrying someone. Especially, if you already have a wife!
Why didn’t he just tell his fiance about the other woman? That usually works. It’s certainly a lot easier than setting fire to a hotel.
Link to the original source
Original Description:
A Japanese man set fire to the hotel where he was due to get married at the weekend, rather than go through with the ceremony later the same day, newspaper reports said Monday. Tatsuhiko Kawata, 39, had gone along with wedding plans despite already having a wife, the Yomiuri newspaper said.
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submitted by SirPopper on 10/20/2008
We’re already getting our asses kicked by foreign competition. And, according to this piece, we better get ready for an increase in both number and intensity. These countries may be poorer than us, but they make up for it in entrepreneurial spirit. They’re also more innovative than us, at least in business.
My favorite part:
I like to tell the story of a Chinese manufacturer that was getting feedback about its washing machines’ clogging up drains. The company investigated and found that the machines worked just fine but that rural consumers were using them to wash potatoes. What would an American company do to solve this problem? Call in a p.r. firm to tell consumers that washing vegetables voids their warranty? The Chinese company had a better idea: it added a vegetable-wash cycle to its machines. We call this innovating with ingenuity–and no government program can teach this.
Original Description:
Imagine 100 companies from Former Third World countries with a combined revenue in the trillions of dollars–greater than the total economic output of many countries–competing with U.S. companies for space on the world stage. Imagine several hundred such companies. Now imagine thousands.
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Submitted by DigiDave on 10/14/2008
There are probably a lot of Mac spoofs out there. If you want to send a message of support for something, simply have the opposing argument dress up as a PC and the supported argument dress up as the Mac guy. Simple.
This spoof focuses on Proposition 8 in California, a measure intended to modify the California constitution to disallow same sex marriages by adding a new section that states “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
Of course, then the government will probably need to define the terms “man” and “woman” and any others that come up in the process. Something already done for Race.
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Submitted by theJones1 on 10/10/2008
to the sea… is the end of the title that got cut off on the digg submission.
In any case, the article was an interesting look at the financial crisis on the denizens of Iceland.
When much of Iceland’s banks became privatized, some left the country’s fishing industry to “strike it rich” at the banks. Many did in fact find fortune, but the banks became highly leveraged and their assets became too much for the economy to back. Now, with the crisis, the government is seizing back the banks.
And, the people are going back to fishing.
Original Description:
Icelanders are returning to fishing after the global financial crisis ruined the country’s swollen banks.
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This is not my personal blog; nor, is it JD’s. It’s starting to feel like it, though. We need contributors, and in order to satisfy that end, perhaps we need to expand the mission of this blog a little further. You may not have thought it was possible, but I assure you; it is.
Our first and primary mission was to highlight those stories on Digg that, for one reason or another, did not make the front page. It was a result of being frustrated at and confused by an obscure algorithm that no one could even begin to understand. How does one story get picked over another? Is the decision to promote one piece over another truly being crowdsourced?
Through our posts we highlighted apparent flaws in Digg’s algorithm, its system design, and its community. Not satisfied with that and feeling rebellious, JD decided to highlight the utter crap that managed to be promoted to Digg’s homepage. Thus, even from its earliest days, this blog’s mission has always been two fold:
1) To highlight those stories that may have deserved to have gone popular.
2) To highlight the garbage that manages to become popular, but should really have not.
Mostly, we added human intellect and judgment to the selection of stories to go popular that Digg’s algorithm could not. Read more…
submitted by badwithcomputer on 10/04/08
And, it should be!
Don’t mess with an Irishman’s drink. That’s all that needs to be said.
Original Description:
A publican has been fined €2,500 and ordered to pay costs and expenses of more than €1,000 for watering down vodka. Charles Malzard, proprietor of Malzard’s pub, Main Street, Stoneyford, Kilkenny, was convicted by Judge William Harnett at Kilkenny District Court for engaging in a misleading commercial practice.
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