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April 12th, 2010 | 
Author: Liberty Belle, one of 14 World War II Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers still flying and the most recently restored, is scheduled to take to the skies over Seattle on April 19, with public flights April 24 and 25.
Flight hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 24 and 25 at the Museum of Flight, 9404 E. Marginal Way, in Seattle. The flights take 45 minutes — including a safety briefing, scenic air tour and chance to move about the aircraft to the different combat crew positions — and cost $395 for Liberty Foundation members (membership costs $40) and $430 for non-members. See reservation information here.
People can watch flights for free from a designated area.
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Microsoft’s annual Imagine Cup software and game development contest is gearing up, and the company has selected 20 U.S. finalists. The teams were selected from a pool of 14,000 high school and college students who entered the competition. Students across America are competing in the Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition hosted annually by Microsoft Corp. The public is invited to learn more about the U.S. finalist teams, view videos about their innovations, and vote for their favorite Software Design idea at http://www.imaginecup.us/peopleschoice.aspx.
More than 14,000 high-school and college students throughout the country registered for the competition, and 20 student teams were chosen to participate in the Imagine Cup 2010 U.S.
The U.S. Imagine Cup finalists include the following: Read the rest of this entry »
Another peril can be added to the hazards of the innocent-looking computer keyboard. Not content with encouraging repetitive strain injury, the key pads sometimes harbour more filth than the average lavatory seat and house millions of bacteria which can cause diarrhoea and vomiting, a study has shown.
A microbiologist carrying out research published yesterday for the Which? Computing magazine examined samples from 33 keyboards and found a variety of bugs including E coli and S aureus, which can cause skin infections and make people ill.
The scientist swabbed a lavatory seat and a toilet door handle in a typical London office for comparison. One of the keyboards tested had to be removed from the office because it was five times dirtier than the lavatory seat and home to 150 times the acceptable limit of bacteria…
