Evil JS?

I wondered whether anyone else was seeing what I'm seeing on this page:

http://www.energyhelpline.com

It's to do (I think) with the JavaScript news ticker thingy to the upper left. Viewing it in Firefox 3, the process sucks up all the CPU it can get, up to 90% or so and annoyingly prioritizing it over other apps. In Chrome, with its useful Task Manager, that shows this tab taking consistently around 20% of CPU when available; in Opera 9, it makes the Opera process as a whole take around 40%. In IE 7, though, it doesn't have any strange CPU effect.

Do any of you see this peculiar and unpleasant behaviour?

WolfeWiki news

I just wanted to do a quick plug for WolfeWiki, the new wiki about Gene Wolfe's writing, which I administer.

A small but dedicated team of conttributors is slowly working its way through the material and generating and populating wiki pages accordingly, but would like to be less small!

If you're interested in contributing, or of course just in dipping into it for your own Wolfe interest, please do come on over.

New contributions are syndicated to LJ at wolfewiki, so you can keep an eye on developments that way too.

(X-posted to gene_wolfe and sf_with_bite.)

A prediction

John Cruddas to join the Cabinet in next week's reshuffle, in a significant role. You saw it here first¹. A year ago, it would have been unthinkable -- a Bateman cartoon made flesh. But with the current financio-political situation, the time could just be right for a gesture that reaches out to Labour's base, adds some support to the contention that they are actually concered about ordinary people's welfare, etc. I'm not sure I would expect any other prominent left-wingers to be brought in -- but Alan Johnson might get promoted I guess, as he must surely be the heir presumptive now that David Milliband appears to have shot his bolt?

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1 Unless you saw it somewhere else first. Please don't tell me that this theory has already been all over the papers.