Tacoma Narrows Bridge stranded at the stateline

Doh! A section of the Tacoma Narrows bridge being shipped from Minnesota got stopped at the Idaho/Washington border when the WA state weigh station declared it to be overweight. It made it through five states, but not Washington.

[News Tribune]

R2-D2 Mailboxes

This is too cool. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Star War, the USPS is coming out with some R2-D2 mailboxes. Hope to see one soon. [link]

RIP Brad Delp of Boston

Brad Delp, lead singer of Boston found dead in his home. [link]
Pretty sad. I know I wore out at least one or two Boston tapes in my youth.

Nortel to restate earnings (again)

For the fourth time in four years, Nortel has to restate earnings to fix accounting errors.

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