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When I was in college, I used Eudora for email and actually carried around a disk to store it all. I still have some of those disks, and going into the mail files with a text editor brings back memories. Until I started using Gmail for most mail, I was using Mozilla Thunderbird at home, which felt like the logical free extension of Eudora. So, my surprise at this announcement came not from the fact that Qualcomm was giving Eudora to the Mozilla Foundation, but that Eudora still existed. It’ll be interesting to see what results. ...

Steve Yegge writes about the Google Way. Interesting stuff. At Google, projects launch because it’s the least-energy state for the system. Link courtesy of Joel on Software

I guess I’m too sheltered. I didn’t even realize there was such a thing as a library cat, much less that they had their own map. Link courtesy of Too Many Topics, Too Little Time.

My Dead Celebrity Soulmate? Mata Hari. Choices 2 and 3? Cleopatra and Annie Oakley. :) Link courtesy of TV Squad

I subscribe to a feed that supplies one page from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci each day. At that rate, they’ll have the entire work done in about four years. I was struck by today’s selection: I reveal to men the origin of the first, or perhaps second cause of their existence. Fascinating. :)

Lorrie and I walked into our new neighborhood Urban Outfitters last night, and I immediately felt I was in another world…one where I had no clue about fashion, or actual clothing sizes. That’s not much of a stretch, but the feeling passed. I started to notice there’s still an underlying, mundane mall-ness to it all. Not much different from the food court, if the food court had books about sexual positions. ...

A synopsis of The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #21, in which a boy and his dog parachute into a forest fire, kill the last surviving wooly mammoth, and learn valuable lessons about how to properly dispose of matches. Oh yes, and they’re also attacked by a cougar. All in a day’s work for Rex…truly a Wonder Dog.

Something Awful is running a series of motivational posters for super-villains. The quality is up and down, but these are some good ones. Link courtesy of X-Ray Spex, which has good posters featuring the Red Skull and Magneto.

“It’s devouring the planet, even as we speak!” The New York Television Festival has some featured animation pilots on the web, including Squid Dragon Legend. It’s a decent sendup of anime, featuring the same sorts of thoughts you probably had the first time you saw it. It’s at its weakest when it strays from that into conventional jokes. Great line: “Or maybe he’s seen the future in some sort of crystal skull, with skulls all over it?” ...

Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, dead at 44 from a stingray’s barb. :(