I'm glad to annouce the new boring/repetitititititititititititive tool: urlview.rb. It will help u to extract urls out from a paragraph and provides a very light curses based UI for u to open the url in your favorate browser. You can try it like this:

./urlview.rb urlview.rb
or
cat urlview.rb | urlview.rb

I hope it will be loved by the ppl who is both a rubist and mutt user :-)  When use with mutt like this u can use C-b to open links in mail:

macro pager \cb <pipe-entry>'<PATH TO URLVIEW.RB>'<enter> 'Follow links with urlview'

enjoy.