This is all horse shit.  What we really need is a computer that can interact with us the way we interact with other intelligent things.  We talk and hear, we see, we touch.  I'm not buying this virtual world stuff.  The R&D money would be better spent developing faster and better voice recognition software and computer sight.

LA Times: Just Beyond Our Windows. Tired of operating personal computers like this? A lot of researchers are, and they're trying to change the way people interact with the ubiquitous beige boxes by creating virtual spaces that take into account the way people behave in the real world. [Tomalak's Realm]

Holy crap, Batman!  Now this combination would produce a company worthy of taking on Microsoft blow for blow.

Washington Post: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat. AOL Time Warner Inc. is in talks to buy Red Hat Inc., a prominent distributor of a computer operating system, an acquisition that would position the media giant to challenge arch rival Microsoft Corp., according to sources familiar with the matter. [Tomalak's Realm]

I have really be getting into the guts of Radio the past couple of days.  The object database is quite cool.  It comes at database theory from more of a programmer's perspective than a normal RDBMS.  It is refreshing, actually.  I have been able to get tons of stuff into the database and I am not working on getting tons of stuff out and displayed.

I am working on a tool that imports instant message logs into Radio and allows you to post individual IMs or entire conversations to your weblog.  I am using Trillian logs at the data source.  I should have a beta out in the next few days.  I will post it to the radio-dev list.