When toasters attack

For some reason, the electronics in my house are rebelling. My ceiling fans have remote controls, so they have these little receiver modules.
My bedroom ceiling fan quit working all together. I traced it to the module. I tried to bypass it, but it backfed into the module and shorted something.
Then, on the same day, my other ceiling fan decided it would not allow my to adjust the light. The fan works, and the light comes on fully bright, but I can't dim the light or turn it off with the remote.
Did a comet pass the earth yesterday?