You decode me right through baby right through like an mp3 baby right through right through.

• NotN: Barrowman exposes himself on radio; "Community Payback" vests revitalise low-end clothing market; New plans for unemployed and immigrants in Queen's Speech.

• DailyPhoto seems to be much more popular than DailyPic.co.uk. The geeky focus, the text and all the Creative Commons attribution the whiniest creator could ask for encourage people to propagate links. Good!

I used to read my mail on mutt on a terminal. I ended up not quite reading stuff ever. No folders, tagging or spam filtering.

Then I read it on Thunderbird on my PC. Folders, tagging and good spam filtering (though you still have to download the stuff). But somehow I never quite got around to answering what I meant to or reading much of my list mail (150+ messages a day).

Now I use Gmail. I pretty much live in it. (I only use IM at all because Gmail comes with a Jabber client.) I keep up with my mail! Mostly.

The key innovation of Gmail for me is that mail is in three states: unread, read and archived. The third category, I can't see it but it's there in a search.

Other nice innovations I like: the conversation threading (I now read my list mail), good search, even better spam filtering than Thunderbird.

Keeping one's life on someone else's commercial server is risky in obvious ways. So it'd be nice to have something as usable as Gmail on my desktop.

So. What would it take to add the following features to Thunderbird?

• Three-state mail, with the archived stuff disappearing from sight but still in search.
• really good full text search, so archived stuff can actually be found. (Text search! It's a SOLVED PROBLEM!)
• I can live without the conversation threading, but that'd be nice too. I like the Gmail interface much better than the standard-since-1994 three-pane interface.

What are my chances on this?

Pinky-ponk.

• Annoying people without excessive weight.

• I knew Seth Finkelstein was more than a few edits short of a wiki, but Jesus fuck. Wish I'd known about that page a few years ago, when I first suffered his remarkable insights. He's lately been trolling for another hatchet job on Wikipedia; should be fun.

• No. Just no. (NSFW, NSFB.) Courtesy rufus.

• NotN: Steven Soderbergh does "Cleopatra The Musical in 3-D". Photo: spaghetti hair jenga marshmallow grimace.

Freda just managed to break — as in utterly smash — the power socket on redcountess's laptop. Well done! (It's a crappy thing soldered to the motherboard. Official HP repair is motherboard replacement. Spare sockets are readily available on eBay for anyone handy with a soldering iron.) Until we can get a replacement, it's currently powered off the CD dock ("slice"). Which I bought a DVD player for, as Liz's early Christmas present!

Freda also managed a very clever trick: arkady was playing her In The Night Garden on YouTube while I was dismantling Liz's laptop to see just how broken the power socket actually was. Arkady got up to check the cakes she was baking. Freda pounded on the keyboard at random and was delighted to see that, having hit the spacebar, the video started again. gothgeekgirl, she's really earned the Defcon clothes.