Video of the Day: Nap of the Earth Flight

YouTube has a stunning video posted of low-level jet flight that ought to raise a few hairs on the back of your neck.

If the part where the pilot is checking his map while flying at two hundred miles an hour less than a hundred feet of the ground over the african plains doesn’t bring a sense of thrill, then nothing will.

Firefox’s “Memory Leak” Explained

For those concerned with reports of how much system memory the open-source webbrowser Firefox uses, this Inside Firefox article sheds some light on how much of that memory usage is a feature, not a bug.

Of course that still doesn’t excuse the number of third-party extensions that have terrible memory leaks, but it should help explain all the complaints about just how much memory the program uses.