Mead

The things you mention are not blocks, but tile entities.

Please consult http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/155-support/ for troubleshooting help.

This tracker is for bugs, not feature requests. Please see http://minecraftforum.net to post and talk about what you would like to see added or changed.

Please consult http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/155-support/ for troubleshooting help.

Please consult http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/155-support/ for troubleshooting help.

Please join http://crowdin.net/project/minecraft to help fix translation issues.

This tracker is for bugs, not feature requests.

This tracker is for bugs, not feature requests.

This appears to be abandoned. Please re-submit a ticket with an error log if you're still having trouble.

This appears to be abandoned. Please re-submit a ticket with an error log if you still have a problem.

It's just your video card initialising. Lots of games do that.

Please consult http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/155-support/ for troubleshooting help.

Please consult http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/155-support/ for troubleshooting help.

Please consult http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/155-support/ for troubleshooting help.

I've seen this exactly once in 1.3.2, but not yet in 1.4.2.

Also, seriously? An intended feature is to occasionally make the SHIFT keycodes stick and require a resolution change to solve? Intended? No sir, I doubt that.

Please consult http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/155-support/ for troubleshooting help.

Please consult http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/155-support/ for troubleshooting help.

Please consult http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/155-support/ for troubleshooting help.

The compass points to your spawn point, so if you're moving away from it, it's going to be pointing back the way you came.

Please consult http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/155-support/ for troubleshooting help.