On leaking memory like a sieve

I tend to leave browser tabs open for weeks on end, and if it's not entirely clear from the gratuitous screen-grab above, those 19 Google Chrome processes each consume anywhere from 16 to 108M of memory, for a grand total of 577M.

And here I thought Firefox was bad about memory management.

Filed under "I wish I'd thought of that"

From "Comparing genomes to computer operating systems in terms of the topology and evolution of their regulatory control networks"

Faster than a speeding mushroom

This growth occurred over the course of two days. Moving clockwise from the top left, pictures were taken at: 7pm on Wednesday, 8 am Thursday morning, 11pm Thursday night, and finally 7pm Friday night.