From the “Oops I did it again” desk (we just added this desk today)…

Hold on to your hats, kids! Annie get your gun! Batten down the hatches! Safari’s got itself a nasty image bug. As does Preview and any OS X application that Mac OS X’s built-in image-handling routines. And if you remember the Safari Image of Doom, the outcome of this bug may sound familiar. This image bug causes the application trying to view the image to crash. Affected applications include Safari, OmniWeb, and Preview. Applications that use their own image-handling routines such as Photoshop, Firefox, and Graphic Converter, are not affected, you lucky dog you.

Our good buddy DrunkenBatman of DrunkenBlog has posted a blog entry highlighting this flaw. WARNING! Do not click the above link if you’re on Safari and do not want your browser to temporarily become a useless pile of smoldering ones and zeros. That is to say, Safari and some other browsers will unceremoniously give you the infamous spinning beachball and unexpectedly quit. It does not do any damage to the application or operating system, but might leave you exercising your freedom of speech (heavy use of profanity) when you lose the 20 pages of...whatever it is that you’re reading that you have open. (You’re reading Deep Thought, I see. I hear that’s a cool site.)

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.