Sometimes I scroll down the "new" page and vote up all the hard tech stories I can find. Often I find none.

Have a hard tech theme day once a month, like Erlang day. Let's do Scala Day tomorrow!

How much land needs to be paved over with windmills to equal the power output of one nuclear plant?

A handful of square meters per windmill, unless it's off shore and then it's none (as in no land). You realize windmills for energy production dots the Danish landscape, placed in handfuls in the middle of farms, right?

Yeah, but Denmark has a population of 5.5 million people and ample land for them and windmills.

Political stories simply need to be killed with prejudice.

Just kill political stories more quickly.

Not speaking is a great way to not change anybody's mind. Also, your representative probably gets far less mail than your senators.

Are you claiming there are no crash bugs in those other browsers? I can crash Chrome tabs just by creating lots of HTML 5 audio elements in a loop. And I'm sure there's more.

Of course not - but the crash bugs should ideally be isolated (like your Chrome crash doesn't impact other tabs), short-lived (this bug has been around since mid-2009), and not impact the operating system (only cure for the crashie8 glitch requires loading taskmgr).

I just tried navigating to crashie8.com on IE9 RC, and while it crashed the tab (and one of the other tabs that shared the same process), nothing happened to the main IE window. The isolation seemed to work alright. Did you try this with the beta or the RC?