In the past I suffered with problems when using Eudora as my mail client. At least in the several versions I used over the years it seemed to have a real problem gracefully recovering when it hit any sort of glitch while it was downloading mail. Eventually I gave into the suggestions that I try Outlook, which, while it demonstrated foibles of its own, didn't have this same problem as Eudora, which often resulted in lost messages before I switched. Yesterday I discovered a new odd behavior of Outlook that never really occurred to me to check for before. Outlook offers automatic Junk Mail filtering, but the only interaction I've ever had with his function was to add a few senders to the associated "junk senders list" which added them to the filter. For whatever reason, I was inspired yesterday to look in the folder where this filter deposited its junk. You may have guessed already where this is heading: yup, it turns out that Outlook's definition of junk not only includes all manner of spam, but also dozens of messages that were actually quite important. I haven't sat down with the lost messages to try and figure out what keyword or words they contained that caught them in the filter, but I did discover that this turns out to be one of those smart capabilities of a computer program that is incredibly stupid, which is how I feel for letting the program filter my messages for me.

Link of the Day: Just not Cricket. Flash required. Thanks Ant.
Story of the Day: Killer dies in rocket-launcher duel (The Times). Thanks Bob. First time I've heard of one of those outside a game.
Bonus Story: California landfill dubbed a historic landmark. Makes you proud. Thanks Rick "^Drag0n^" Brewer.
Weird Science: Nuclear Waste Recyclers Target Consumer Products. Thanks [MP] Wolverine [MP].
Wild Science: Pulse Jet Engine. Home of the jet-powered go-kart. Thanks Leon Tranter.