Monday Interactive News
Today’s edition of quick hits that won’t necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to you:
And your geek link of the day:
Monday’s Interactive News
Today’s edition of quick hits that won’t necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to you:

After a brief discussion about exactly why MailChimp would want a billboard, the consensus was that we wouldn’t try to sell anything, we wouldn’t pander to anyone, we wouldn’t even advertise any features, like our new drag-and-drop editor (though that is pretty sweet). Instead, we just wanted to make MailChimp users smile.
When return on investment is measured by delight instead of sales or conversions, there’s a lot more freedom to be creative, to be bold, or maybe even to be creative and bold. It was liberating to begin the project knowing that our metrics were much closer to Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index than the kind of metrics that analysts or shareholders of a public company might expect.
Monday’s Interactive News
Today’s edition of quick hits that won’t necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to you:
And your geek link of the day:

The object in question—called MACS0647-JD—is the red blob in the inset. If the calculations hold out, that gloppy looking thing may be at the mind-crushing distance of almost 13.3 billion light years. The light we see from it started on its way when the universe itself was only 420 million years old. Just typing that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Wednesday’s Interactive News
Today’s edition of quick hits that won’t necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to you:
And your geek link of the day:
After months of fanfare and anticipation, gigabit home Internet service Google Fiber finally went live on Tuesday in Kansas City. The search giant is offering 1 Gbps speeds for just $70 per month—significantly faster and cheaper than what any traditional American ISPs are offering.
“We just got it today and I’ve been stuck in front of my laptop for the last few hours,” Mike Demarais, founder of Threedee, told Ars. “It’s unbelievable. I’m probably not going to leave the house.”
Monday’s Interactive News
Today’s edition of quick hits that won’t necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to you:
And your geek link of the day:
Though the committee may have overstepped the boundaries of its evaluation, I find it pertinent to note that Dr. Jones has been romantically linked to countless women of questionable character, an attribute very unbecoming of a Marshall College professor. One of these women was identified as a notorious nightclub singer whose heart he attempted to extract with his hands, and whom he then tried, and failed, to lower into a lake of magma. Another was a Nazi scholar he was seen courting just last year who, I’m told, plummeted into a fathomless abyss at Dr. Jones’s hand. And, of course, no one can forget the slow decline and eventual death of Professor Abner Ravenwood after Dr. Jones’s affair with Abner’s underage daughter was made public, forcing her to emigrate to Nepal to escape the debacle.
Thursday’s Interactive News
Today’s edition of quick hits that won’t necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to you:
The end of Newsweek’s 79-year run as a print publication—once unthinkable but for months inevitable—leaves Time as the only remaining weekly news magazine in the United States. Time was the first U.S. newsweekly when it launched in the 1920s, a decade before Newsweek, and is now the last man standing in a publishing sector that once gushed profits and prestige.
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Tuesday’ Interactive News
Today’s edition of quick hits that won’t necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to you:
And your geek link of the day:
A BBC film crew was detained after it breached the back gate of the top secret military facility known as Area 51 while filming a new documentary about UFO conspiracy theories.
During the incident in the Nevada desert, a camouflage-dressed guard carrying an M-16 told a member of the British team, “We could make you disappear and your body will never be found,” according to a crew member.


