Don’t Harvest River Herring
The “Windy 500” at the Museum of Science
Racing wind powered vehicles made by high school students.
Orbitz Knows How Flying Works
I was looking at some flights for a conference I’m attending, and came across this box in the search results.
This flight starts and ends at different airports.
Good! I was wondering if the plane was going to take me somewhere or just fly around…
Chairs Do Not Need Dashboards!
The Sound of Millions of Technophiles Screaming
Two big tech glitches happened last night:
- The TurboTax servers went down hours before tax returns were due.
- The main servers for BlackBerry email went offline.
According to a spokesperson for TurboTax maker Intuit,
Yesterday was a huge volume day for our back-end electronic filing. As a result, we had a significant slowdown in our ability to process and transmit electronic returns to the IRS.
Luckily for those last-minute filers who got burned, the IRS is going to allow extra time for those people who couldn’t get their returns through the clogged pipes.
As for #2, the BlackBerry servers at Canadian Research in Motion went down overnight, cutting off email to most subscribers in the Western Hemisphere. This was a great quote in the New Zealand Herald:
“I felt like my left arm had been amputated,” said Joe Shoemaker, communications director for Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Dick Durbin of Illinois.
As for me, I did my taxes in February and I’m not addicted to email on my phone, so I barely noticed.
