Display is rendering things very oddly

Hey,
recently my macbook air has been acting really weird and displaying odd things on my screen and random times. Basically, i get some black and white blocks on my desktop on when i am using certain programs that are unable to get rid of unless i go into system prefs and change the display size back and forth. Understand?

I don't use any of these. No virtualization software whatsoever.
Here is a link to a photo gallery of what I experienced this morning:
_http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/2350701/1/MacBook%20Air?h=0fa6bb_
Yesterday, I used my MacBook Air almost the whole day and the problem was gone. I shut it down before going to sleep. When I turned it on this morning, the whole left part of the screen was completely screwed up. The first 200-220px on the left were behaving completely erratically. Especially if I moved a window to the left extremity of the screen, the whole 220px would go completely crazy. Unlike before this was for all windows and applications. This can be shown on one of the pictures in the gallery (with a Firefox window).
I am taking the Air to an Apple Store later this week.

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