The frequency of the bug’s occurrence is definitely tied to system / graphical load. With nvidia cards a few firefox windows (or anything with heavy xrender use) and/or a few open windowed opengl apps and the bug happens about 50% of the time when changing screens and happens much more frequently when moving over the [...]

Remember the McDonald’s worker, Nigel Haskett, who broke up a fight in a Little Rock McDonald’s restaurant and was gravely wounded by gunshots for his trouble? The company is resisting payment of workers’ comp benefits for his injuries. Not work related, they say. via Arkansas Blog: Somebody deserves a break today.

The problem: Comcast lost 233,000 basic cable subs; analysts had been expecting something closer to a 150,000-sub loss. More worrisome, the company added only 247,000 high-priced digital subscribers, which is less than half of what Wall Street was expecting. And it wasn’t as if Comcast’s customers were ditching HBO and MTV and programming their own [...]

Crime is awful in DC — it’s worse than it was in Boston, it’s worse than it was in Oakland, and it’s even worse than it was in Chicago — and I can’t imagine how it will ever get any better. via Frozen Tropics: Please Take Care.

Media interest is intense. The largest Swedish newspapers have live bloggers and covering the trial as the top front page story. Public radio and TV have special sites and have broadcasting the audio from the court room in its entirety. Crowds of Pirate Party and Pirate Bureau members were circling the court, inside and outside. [...]