Never Say Never: HodgePodge for Jan. 16

News you can use

It’s impossible to keep up-to-date on all the news, so of course media and technology companies have been working for years on ways to make it easier to get caught up. In Fast Company, Harry McCracken takes a look at one such app, called Timeline.

Disappearing money

If you were wondering how much it costs to advertise on Snapchat, the answer is $750,000. A day. (If you don’t know what Snapchat is, ask a teenager.)

Have you tried turning it off and on?

If you’ve used a Windows PC, you’ve almost certainly had to press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot a stuck machine at some point. Turns out it was never even meant to be consumer facing.

But did they use their hands?

How soccer fans saved the Seattle Seahawks.

Contageous sparkles

Mathew Carpenter thought it would be funny if you could anonymously ship glitter to people. It backfired when he had to, you know, actually ship glitter places.

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