Also--An insurance company is now accepting bitcoins (the one that I work for). https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155036.0

Not trying to advertise, but it's a real business, and judging by some of the companies that have contacted us, there are quite a bit more businesses beginning to accept bitcoin that are actual brick and mortar businesses, not just things like Wordpress etc.  

I do feel that the extreme increase in bitcoin price in such a short time IS overall hurting some adoption, as even though we accept Bitcoin, right now it looks like it would be a terrible idea to sell or pay for anything in something that is rising so quickly, so in that regard I think it's difficult to get people who WANT to pay with bitcoins.  For us at least, it would be better if the price stabilized so that it could be used without fear of drastic appreciation/depreciation in a short period of time.

Ken