The Phoenix catches boston.com putting up an interactive map showing Coakley has won the election several hours before the polls closed.
Now anybody who's ever worked in a newsroom knows somebody was just doing this to test the map out, not because he or she is part of a zombie army munching its way through the Commonwealth. Anybody who's ever worked with Web sites, however, knows NOT TO FRICKIN' DO THAT ON A LIVE SYSTEM. That's why God gave us test servers behind the firewall, guys.
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My jaw hurts...
By Lecil
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 1:49pm
...it hit my desk so hard in amazement when I saw this.
I was wondering....
By Ali
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:02pm
why boston.com was down for a while this morning!
Zombie's Huh?
By crazylegs
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 3:15pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VjsomPd3ms
The Globe thought that maybe
By NotWhitey
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 4:46pm
The Globe thought that maybe putting it on the Internets would make it come true. Nice try.
African Elephants
By langmead
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 9:33pm
I would have thought that African Elephants would overwhelmingly vote Republican.
Staging Servers
By langmead
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 9:32pm
I would hope that Boston.com would have staging servers that they could use to test this sort of thing.