Please give the man a rest!

Now it's not good to remember the Stanford speech where he wrongfully took credit for introducing fonts in graphical interfaces:

"I decided to take a calligraphy class (at Reed College)... . . . None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. [1]"

However, Bravo was the 1st WYSIWYG editor that used multiple fonts and it was created in 1974 [2]. It was a Xerox Alto [3] software.

[1] Transcript of Commencement Speech at Stanford given by Steve Jobs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1422863/posts

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_(software)

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto

Wondering why no-one took into account the snow factor: in my professional opinion, the sub-zero temperatures of the bay area are what caused the problem in the first place.

This is exactly what happened with the Minneapolis bridge!

From the article:
"Their ears are the most sensitive organ they have"
"The big question is what causes them to strand"

Here's an idea: if you overload their "most sensitive organ" to a point of leaving it numb for 40 minutes, that is pretty much torture.

Imagine that happening to you: a loud noise powerful enough to leave you deaf.

The answer: you run!

In the beaches, where they are stranded, these noises probably are not perceived (their ears are out of the water).

I'd rather die than continue listening to you!