That's No Snake

The NFL's Uneven History Of Punishing Domestic Violence, What We Learned This Week, What Exactly Is The Dew Point?, This Snake Is Actually Hundreds Of Gnat Larvae, Inside Google's Secret Drone-Delivery Program, Gaming Is Leaving 'Gamers' Behind The Daily Digg Friday, August 29, 2014 PUTTING THE LEAGUE UNDER FURTHER REVIEW The NFL's Uneven History Of Punishing Domestic Violence fivethirtyeight.com Following the Rice incident, I went looking for every NFL suspension1 issued in the league's 94-year history. I wanted to understand how violations like Rice's, the ones unrelated to steroid or substance abuse, were determined. If domestic abuse warranted two games, what kinds of conduct violations warranted five games? Eight games? An entire season? DIGG PICKS What We Learned This Week digg.com This week we learned why you don't piss off Bill Gates, people will pay more for a cooler than a smartwatch, and Tony didn't die at the end of "The Sopranos." STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED What Exactly Is The Dew Point? hiponcho.tumblr.com If you just read the words "Dew Point" and assumed it's the time of day you can finally crack open a Mountain Dew, you are wrong. STUFF OF NIGHTMARES This Snake Is Actually Hundreds Of Gnat Larvae digg.com Certain types of fungus gnats are, in their larval stage, capable of clinging together to form a slimy snake if they're in search of a new food source. Nature, you're pretty disgusting sometimes. A SECRET WE ALL SAW COMING Inside Google's Secret Drone-Delivery Program theatlantic.com After two years of development, the Silicon Valley company reveals to The Atlantic that it has substantial research effort into building flying robots than can deliver products across a city in a minute or two. LEFT 4 DEADWEIGHT Gaming Is Leaving 'Gamers' Behind buzzfeed.com Why the vitriol of the gaming Internet is a sign the medium is growing up. Read more on Digg.com → STARTING WITH THE MEN IN THE MIRROR An Indian girl navigates her way though cut-outs of pop star Michael Jackson displayed at a shopping mall on the eve of his birth anniversary, in Bangalore, India, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014