I’m not only saying this because I’m on a Mac. I used to hate Firefox under OS X, but, I have to say, Firefox 2 is looking and feeling quite right. Firefox 2.0 is now available and trust me, you should be using it (in case you already aren’t). With IE 7 proving to be a royal pain in the ass (uhh, security warnings when trying to open notepad.exe? why?) and Windows Vista proving to be an ugly mess, there’s no reason to stick with Internet Explorer for browsing the internet.

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Whoa I don’t even know where to start with this. Wayne’s word (not world – duh) is a giant, giant collection of texts and articles covering natural history, making Wayne’s word one of the largest (if not THE largest) virtual text book. Covering everything from blood types and Crassulacean Acid Metabolism to morse code conversions in JavaScript and the Zigadenus, you can spend hours browsing through all of the online texts and quite possibly write a report or 10 for your kids’ science class.

Read more: Wayne’s word – The online textbook of natural history

Eudora, the venerable email client for Windows and Mac OS X, will be partnering with Mozilla and going open source according to an announcement by parent company Qualcomm. The new Eudora will be based on the Thunderbird platform keeping all of it’s features and of course, will be free to the public. Along with the announcement today, Eudora also released it’s final commercial version, available for a discounted price, though I don’t know who would want to buy now, nor who would still use Eudora over Thunderbird anyways.

Read more: Ars Technica

The bubble got a little more inflated today as the king of video sharing sites was scooped up by Google, the king of everything else, for $1.65 billion dollars in stock. Expect millions to be poured into video sharing sites for the next few months, maybe a year, then watch as one by one these sites begin to fall by the wayside. Mark Cuban is probably selling off all of his Google holdings right now and the blogosphere is about to explode. All of this excitement with our 300th posting here on Bunch of Nerds!

Read more: Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock