The Silver Spring Penguin

UPDATE — So far, it looks like the new Penguin layout has held up — no crashes, no columns dangling at the bottom of the page, and the YouTube videos run fine.

However, the website has one issue with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Clicking the number of comments or “Holler back” on the home page doesn’t always get a reader to the comments section. Instead, Explorer abandons the reader in the middle of the post, naked, cold and with no money for the cab ride home.

Unfortunately, that’s Internet Explorer for you. It corrects what it perceives as mistakes, instead of doing what the nice Penguin tech crew asks it to do. Maybe Windows 7 fixes that issue. Maybe it doesn’t. For now, the tech crew is leaving this for Microsoft to address.

Please pardon any bumps that Internet Explorer may toss in your path as you cruise The Penguin website. If you’re rocking Google Chrome, Apple’s Safari or Mozilla Firefox, relax and check out what’s going down this week:

Monday

Scrub the fake blood, latex guts and other remnants of Saturday’s zombie walk from the carpeting at Penguin HQ.

Tuesday

Start fantasizing about next year’s zombie walk.

Wednesday

4:00 p.m. The county holds a free swine-flu vaccination clinic at Northwood High School (919 University Blvd W) until 8:00 p.m. Only children ages 2 to 24 years are eligible for the nasal vaccination; no shots will be administered. An adult must accompany children under age 18 years. No one is allowed on school property until 3:30 p.m.

CANCELLED. Silver Spring’s transportation and pedestrian safety committee holds its monthly meeting at the Silver Spring regional center (8435 Georgia Ave). This free event is open to the public.

Thursday

9:30 a.m. The county council’s health and human services committee discusses a 2007 bill that would require national-chain restaurants in the county to post nutritional information on menus. This free event takes place at the county council’s office building (100 Maryland Ave, Rockville), seventh floor, and is open to the public.

3:00 p.m. The county’s planning board discusses the Purple Line functional plan, a draft document that recommends routes, modes of transport, and stations for the Bethesda-to-New Carrollton mass-transit project. This free event takes place at the planning board auditorium (8787 Georgia Ave) and is open to the public.

Updated Oct 26 to cancel Wednesday’s pedestrian safety meeting. — JD