FWIW, I got the impression that the to-be-published paper has more detailed figures.

http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2009/06/12/how-toxic-is-a-busted-compact-florescent-bulb/

The startling conclusion of the paper is that in a worse case scenario--you break a CFL in a closed, unventilated room; you vacuum the carpet, throwing mercury into the air; you set the vacuum in a corner; and then sit in the room breathing for eight hours--the amount of mercury exposure is about equivalent to the exposure you'd get from eating a can of Albacore tuna.

Shawn Wilsher is working on making it asynchronous, so at least it won't stall everything else. He's got his preliminary work packaged as an addon. (Use at your own risk, obviously.)

Most (if not all) KDE libs are LGPL, while most KDE apps are GPL. This has been the case for quite a while, possibly since the beginning.

Except that all of the results so far in those races have been from the first count. Nice try, though!

That's mostly because people's approval (or lack thereof) of Congress is mainly based on their opinions of the people they didn't vote for. It's why I cringe every time I hear a complaint about people in Congress criticizing Bush when their approval rating is even lower. Apples and oranges, people!

(That's not to say that Congress is all sunshine and ponies, either, just that that particular argument is thoroughly flawed.)

Nope, when you call your own number to get to your voicemail, all that happens is that the call gets forwarded to the "real" voicemail number, kicking you out of mobile-to-mobile land.

I doubt Unix would either.

And you'd be wrong. It doesn't crash because deleting an open file in Unix only unlinks it from the filesystem tree, leaving the contents alone. Only when all programs release the file does the deletion complete.