The first problem with the Wolfram Alpha iPhone app was that it cost $US50. The second problem was that the site’s iPhone web interface was nearly as good as the app, and it was free. Guess which issue Mathematica “fixed!”
My guess is that when the rockets under his seat fired and he suddenly found himself over 90m away from the PC-7 Mk II he was riding in, he probably realised the error of his ways.
In this video, a hapless Russian warehouse worker destroys about $US250,000 of precious, precious vodka in about three seconds (he escaped unscathed). Insert Yakov Smirnoff joke here. [English Russia via The Daily What]
A small but understandably very upset group of people are reporting a bug in Snow Leopard that totally wipes out account data without warning. The consensus seems to be that it has something to do with guest accounts: the data loss seems to come directly after using one, and trying to log back into a regular account.
